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This study addresses the situation of the Sorbs, an indigenous minority living in Lusatia, Germany. Under the overarching rubric of ethnic and nationalist projects, women are usually symbolized as the guardians of culture and language. Women’s experiences as subjects in everyday life and in multi-facetted social practices therefore become veiled. The main concern in this book is to discuss how the women who identify themselves as/with Sorbs studied here construct their identities in the modern world, how they approach a sense of self and how they position themselves in their everyday lives, what kind of processes they undergo in their identity construction, and which factors are implicated in the formation of these identities. Investigating the Sorbian minority as the research subject and focusing on the female gender primarily involves intersections of ethnicity and gender, which are the points of departure for this study. As the research progresses, women’s gradual active construction of gender and ethnicity while living their everyday lives reveals a construction of multifarious and complex identifications across differences of gender, ethnicity, culture, religion and class. The results of research create Sorbian culture anew, craft Sorbian identity afresh and render the notion of Sorbian women in new terms. New meanings encased in these conceptions actually contain an active and transformative impetus. This thrust forces these ideas to undergo a process of redefinition. It is the life experiences people have in everyday practices that impel us to envisage identity construction as a dynamic, never-ending and open-ended articulation of one’s positionings.
Die Arbeit untersucht die Herstellung und ökonomische Umsetzung von "ethnischem Anderssein" in sog. Kultur-Kochkursen in Frankfurt am Main. In den beforschten Kultur-Kochkursen vermitteln ethnisch markierte KochkursleiterInnen "ihre Küche und Kultur" einem (multikulturalistisch) interessiertem Publikum. Die Arbeit fokussiert auf die performative Herstellung, Umsetzung und Repräsentation von (vermarktbarem) ethnischen Andersseins durch die KochkursleiterInnen in der Kochkurssituation und überprüft die Annahme, dass Ethnizität primär durch (Selbst-)Othering – die Betonung von unüberbrückbarer, essentieller kultureller Differenz – vermarktet wird. Die Befunde, welche auf Internetrecherchen, teilnehmenden Beobachtungen und narrativen Interviews basieren, zeigen, dass die organisierenden Institutionen die Kulturkochkurse zwar mit dem Verweis auf Authentizität, Tradition und Andersartigkeit bewerben, die Kultur-KochkursleiterInnen selbst in der Kochkurssituation allerdings kein kulturalistisches, exotisierendes und Differenz betonendes Ethnizitätskonzept perfomieren, sondern vielmehr Dynamik, Vielfalt und Vermischungen artikulieren, praktizieren und stark positiv konnotieren.