Creating a hybrid sense of belonging in Copenhagen: – a case study on Facebook

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In the paper I examine how a cultural event (tilting at the ring) traditionally associated with the periphery of Denmark is transferred to the capital of Copenhagen. This transfer was initiated by a group of mobile youngsters originally from Southern Jutland now living in Copenhagen. After the first event, a Facebook-community was set up to organize and promote succeeding events. By analyzing empirical data from Facebook I point to how the participants draw on a range of ‘languagecultural practices’ (Cornips & de Rooij in press) to re-contextualize the rural tradition to an urban setting. I discuss whether and how the two dimensions of ‘belonging’ (Antonsich 2010), i.e. place-belongingness and politics of belonging, are made relevant by the participants. The connection to Southern Jutland is pointed to in several ways: linguistically by using dialect orthography, materially by pointing to local products and culturally by enacting the competition (Coupland 2014). Yet, I argue that the participants do not create a copy of the activity as it is played out in its original setting, rather it is ascribed a certain urban coolness, which might be a way of demonstrating hybrid senses of belonging to both Southern Jutland and Copenhagen.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato2015
StatusUdgivet - 2015
BegivenhedThe languagecultural conceptualisation of ‘belonging’ - Maastricht University, Maastricht, Holland
Varighed: 9 jun. 201510 jun. 2015

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WorkshopThe languagecultural conceptualisation of ‘belonging’
LokationMaastricht University
LandHolland
ByMaastricht
Periode09/06/201510/06/2015

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