Imagining Transnational Orphanhoods: Nation-as-Family in Recent Spanish Children’s Books

García-González, Macarena

doi:10.1353/chq.2015.0046

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2015

DOI: 10.1353/chq.2015.0046

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Imagining Transnational Orphanhoods: Nation-as-Family in Recent Spanish Children’s Books

Macarena García-González¹

Abstract: In this article, I explore constructions of orphanhood in books about international adoption and irregular immigration tracing their relationship to broader sets of narratives on belonging, and, particularly, to the conceptual metaphor of Nation-as-Family. The stories about young adoptees aim to resist hegemonic discourses on the biological constitution of the family while justifying transnational adoptions overlooking the geopolitical order that facilitates them. Books portraying illegal immigrants, on other … Show more

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Duelling Commonwealth Family of Nations Metaphors and Britain’s Post-Brexit Global Identity

Eaton

2019

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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This study examines the communication of conceptual metaphors in contemporary narratives of British politics, and specifically, the competitive communication of a Commonwealth 'family of nations' metaphor in the context of ongoing Brexit debates. This line of inquiry has been pursued through an analysis of parliamentary speeches made in the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the period from 23 June 2015 (1 year before the EU Referendum) through October 2018, facilitated by the use of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software. Although multiple 'family of nations' metaphors were identified, British parliamentarians made more references to the Commonwealth as a family unit than other multinational groupings, and two prominent variants of this family metaphor have been defined.Speakers competed for control over the meaning of the base metaphor, with mainly English Conservative speakers communicating a positive aspirational variant (framing the Commonwealth as a historically-rooted, harmonious and prosperous alternative to the EU), while speakers from the other main parties communicated a competing critical judgmental variant (framing the Commonwealth as discriminatory, unequal and failing to defend shared human rights principles). It is argued that this metaphor, and particularly its positive aspirational variant, contributes to a broader communicative effort to encourage the imagination of a transnational and global British orientation and identity outside Europe.

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Duelling Commonwealth Family of Nations Metaphors and Britain’s Post-Brexit Global Identity

Eaton

2019

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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‘We are all children of the commonwealth’: political myth, metaphor and the transnational commonwealth ‘family of nations’ in Brexit discourse

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2019

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Political myths contribute to effective political communication in their ability to render a social group's world and experiences more coherent by providing stories or narratives that explain where it came from, how it came to be in its present condition, and what its future holds. One such contemporary political myth, identified as Global Britain, has been vigorously promoted by English conservative politicians and public intellectualsboth before and after the 2016 European Union membership referendum -in an effort to alter perceptions about what the UK's proper orientation and identity should be in the international system. Global Britain's advocates view Brexit as an opportunity to reclaim Britain's internationalist credentials by renewing old relationships with people's and societies in its former empire. Among many rhetorical tools used in the articulation of Global Britain is a Commonwealth as a 'family of nations' conceptual metaphor which contributes content to the political myth and force behind its main purpose -promoting the imagination of a positive future when the British people and their country will range out in the world among their closest 'kith and kin' rather than being tied down in what Global Britain's advocates view as an inefficient, undemocratic and sclerotic European Union.

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Imagining Transnational Orphanhoods: Nation-as-Family in Recent Spanish Children’s Books

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Duelling Commonwealth Family of Nations Metaphors and Britain’s Post-Brexit Global Identity

Duelling Commonwealth Family of Nations Metaphors and Britain’s Post-Brexit Global Identity

‘We are all children of the commonwealth’: political myth, metaphor and the transnational commonwealth ‘family of nations’ in Brexit discourse

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