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id	eprints-35699
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institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	This chapter consists of my autoethnographic narrative, including diary entries, which delineates what it feels like to live as an Indigenous person whose community is under ongoing cultural assimilation, followed by its analysis. The main issues identified in the narrative were emotional insecurity and its coping mechanism – to pretend to be someone else. By applying Peirce’s Theory of Signs to motifs identified in the narrative, I examined relations between individual and groups to discuss solutions. I argue the importance of having an awareness in one’s own roots or Indigenous knowledge system, recognising historical context or power relations that one is involved in, and negotiating one’s contingent pluralistic identity to resolve constant fear of ostracism and establish agency in one’s life.
format	Other
author	Zlazli, Miho
author_facet	Zlazli, Miho
authorStr	Zlazli, Miho
author_letter	Zlazli, Miho
title	Constant fear of ostracism
publisher	Self published research output
publishDate	2021
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/35699/