• Disha

In this article, I look closely at identity construction in relation to the hegemonic discourses of gender available at a school and in society at large. More specifically, I conduct a case study of Anita (pseudonym), a teenage girl who attends a government school in New Delhi, India. I have analysed how she constructs and negotiates her identities in interview narratives and in pro-longed participant-observations. The paper looks at Anita’s endeavour to achieve a sense of self in the intermediate stage between childhood and adulthood. It is thus important to look at how students construct their identities by negotiating and modifying the imposed social structures they engage with at school. The aim of this paper is thus to understand how Anita engages with the socio-cultural ways of meaning making available to her and the specific discourses that she mobilises emerge in her attempts to negotiate identity in everyday life at school. Anita’s voice helps to understand not just her construction of identity but also her worldview through her experiences, feelings and everyday exchanges.

Discourse analysis, identity construction, adolescence, discourse and identity, gender and society

"Negotiating Adolescent Identities: Case study of a teenage Indian Girl", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.265-272, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902740.pdf

"Negotiating Adolescent Identities: Case study of a teenage Indian Girl", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp265-272, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902740.pdf