Embodied ethnicity: the ethnic affiliation grounded in the body

Delphine Dion (), Lionel Sitz () and Eric Rémy ()
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Delphine Dion: UP1 IAES - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - Institut d'administration économique et sociale - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Lionel Sitz: EM - EMLyon Business School
Eric Rémy: NIMEC - Normandie Innovation Marché Entreprise Consommation - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - ULH - Université Le Havre Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - IRIHS - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Homme et Société - UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université, IAE Rouen - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Rouen

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Abstract: Drawing on cultural phenomenology, this article extends literature on ethnicity by investigating its embodied dimensions and by studying infra-national referents (e.g. regionalism in France). Findings show the central role of embodiment in ethnicity. Three dimensions of ethnicity are outlined: embodied ethnicity (being in the world), embodied ethnic imaginary (remembering being-in-the-world) and embodied ethnic interactions (being-in-the-world with others). This analysis extends the postassimilastionist model by adding an embodied dimension, highlights the specificities of local ethnicity, and questions the concept of the habitus.

Keywords: regionalism; culture; ethnicity; embodiment; Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; habitus; Bourdieu (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09-01
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Published in Consumption Markets and Culture, 2011, 14 (3), 311-331 p. ⟨10.1080/10253866.2011.574834⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2011.574834

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