{"id":559,"date":"2026-08-08T08:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/?page_id=559"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:37:28","slug":"ancestral-junctures-on-the-expansion-of-ancestral-mythologies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/?page_id=559","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Junctures: on the expansion of ancestral mythologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Cor\u00e7 George Demir<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Year<br><\/strong>2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Supervisor<br><\/strong>Hans Schabus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grafik-9-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grafik-9-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grafik-9-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grafik-9-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grafik-9.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Photo Credit<\/strong> <em>\u201eCor\u00e7 George Demir; Still, \u201aFor I Am Many\u2018; 2022\u201c<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201eWhere are you from?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Where are you really from?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I mean where is your family from?\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My proposed PhD research \u201cAncestral Junctures\u201d deals with how mythologies of ancestry and heritage are constructed through the ascription of dominant society, family histories or alternative ancestral lineages. Who defines a supposed ancestry? What information is used to justify it? Which individuals or groups are allowed to be a part of such narratives? How does one align oneself within certain ancestral lineages and what is their necessity for collective and individual subject constructions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question \u201eWhere are you really from?\u201c serves as the starting point of the research. The constant confrontation of as Other-assigned individuals with this question can be perceived as an externally imposed Othering (Reuter 2011) \u2013 as \u201enot belonging\u201c in a societal construct. These mythologies of ancestry and heritage imposed from the \u201eoutside\u201c do not only place people in other geographical regions or religious communities, they also overlay them with projections of supposed \u201ecultural otherness\u201c. The constant reference to one\u2019s own speculated heritage forces the Othered person into a continuous examination of their own histories and positionings in societal relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The implications of such ascriptions can vary greatly in their individual psychological or collective socio-political effects. But it is precisely this circumstance that a myth of ancestry can simultaneously offer a certain orientation while at the same time opening up the space for a constructed togetherness or belonging \u2013 even serve as a survival strategy and actively empower oneself with one\u2019s own mythologies, contrary to the ascription of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along the conceptualisations of intersubjective ancestral-lineages, this research attempts to explore multiple possibilities of reconstruction of and alignment within heritage-narratives through an auto-ethnographic observation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cor\u00e7 George Demir Year2022 SupervisorHans Schabus \u201eWhere are you from? Where are you really from? I mean where is your family from?\u201c My proposed PhD research \u201cAncestral Junctures\u201d deals with how mythologies of ancestry and heritage are constructed through the ascription of dominant society, family histories or alternative ancestral lineages. Who defines a supposed ancestry? 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