Jolanta Drzewiecka
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Biography
Jolanta Drzewiecka (PhD, Arizona State University, USA) researches discursive constructions of cultural, racial, and national differences and identities to advance a critical intercultural communication framework. She focuses on two areas: immigrant identity and public memories. In the first, she examines how immigrant identities are negotiated and represented in personal and media narratives. Here, she explores how relations of inequality shape and are shaped by migrant practices, including affective practices, and their implications for understanding 'integration.' The latter area explores how public memories are shaped by and shape nationalism. She is particularly interested in how memories of ethnic violence are discursively disabled and blocked and victims rendered unrecognisable to protect fictions of the national self. Here, she combines discourse and rhetorical analyses with psychoanalytic theories.
She has published her research in journals such Communication Theory, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Media Studies in Communication, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.
Prof. Drzewiecka moved to Switzerland after teaching and conducting research at Washington State University, USA.
Research
Current funded project: Migrant belonging: identity, affect and capital.
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