Hall2021

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Hall2021
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hall2021
Author(s) Laura Hall
Title Intertextual, action-orientated, political and occasioned constructions of Zimbabwe as a country in crisis
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Tag(s) Discursive Psychology, accounting, action-orientated, blaming, critical discursive psychology, forced migrants, intertextual, nation, place, synthetic approach, interview
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Year 2021
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Journal Discourse & Society
Volume 32
Number 1
Pages 25-41
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DOI 10.1177/0957926520961633
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Abstract

The notion that textual, verbal and visual representations of places are more or less accurate depictions of reality has been challenged by cultural geographers and discursive psychologists who regard language as constitutive rather than reflective. This paper builds on this work by demonstrating that constructions of Zimbabwe produced by UK residents from Zimbabwe during life history interviews in 2011 appropriated other representations; were action-orientated; had political consequences; and were orientated to the interactional context in which they were produced. More specifically, I show that the interviewees challenged the ‘narrative of the nation’ promoted by the ruling party and their supporters by producing intertextual constructions of Zimbabwe as a country in crisis; attributed blame for the crisis; and accounted for their presence in the UK.

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