Becoming 'international': Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification.
Ethnography
; 25(2): 119-141, 2024 Jun.
Article
in En
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| ID: mdl-38855558
ABSTRACT
Asking how being 'international' relates to privilege, I analyse a role-play game, the Students' League of Nations, where pupils and teachers from select international schools simulate the UN General Assembly in Geneva. I document distinctive practices of selection and visions of excellence as talent, using Bourdieu's notion of 'institutional rite'. I combine insider ethnography and quantitative analyses of the host school with a historical account of its' elitism to bridge the gap between macro- and micro-analyses of 'everyday nationalism'. I show how this game draws a symbolic boundary between 'international' and 'local' high schools by separating students who are considered worthy of transgressing their national identity from all others.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Ethnography
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
France