“You are special”: othering in biographies of “GDR children from Namibia”
“You are special”: othering in biographies of “GDR children from Namibia”
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“你很特别”：“来自纳米比亚的东德儿童”传记中的其他人
DOI：
10.1080/01419870.2017.1287417
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Matthias D. Witte
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作者：
C. Schmitt;Matthias D. Witte
摘要本文分析了一个政治性逃亡的历史案例。1979年至1989年间，来自纳米比亚的大约430名所谓的德意志民主共和国儿童被带到了德意志民主共和国。他们来自纳米比亚难民营，是西南非洲人民组织和民主德国之间团结项目的一部分。他们接受教育，以便在国家解放后成为纳米比亚的精英。他们的逗留是暂时的，这些儿童被西南非民组和民主德国确认为纳米比亚人。文章重建的文化主义和生物种族主义形式的他者的年轻人，否认他们属于民主德国和纳米比亚的特点传记经验。同时，它还考察了年轻人如何刺激他者的类别，创造代理空间。他们建立了一种新的混合语言“Oshi德语”，从而打破了文化化，并作为一个集体在寻找归属感。
ABSTRACT The article analyses a historical case of politically induced flight. The so-called German Democratic Republic (GDR) children from Namibia are about 430 people brought to the GDR between 1979 and 1989. They came from Namibian refugee camps and were part of a solidarity project between South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) and the GDR. They were educated to become the Namibian elite once the country had been liberated. Their stay was to be temporary, with the children identified as Namibian by SWAPO and GDR. The article reconstructs culturalist and biological-racist forms of othering as characteristic biographical experience of the young people which deny them belonging to GDR and Namibia. Simultaneously it examines how the young people irritate the categories of othering and create spaces of agency. They build a new hybrid language “Oshi German” thereby breaking culturalization and staying together as a collective in search of a place of belonging.