Young Transylvanians between Memories of a Multicultural Past and Aspirations for a European Future: A Photovoice Project in a German-language School

Anne Delouis (1)

1 CEPOC - Centre d'études politiques contemporaines

Despite the drastically diminished size of the centuries-old German-speaking minority of Transylvania since 1989, German-language schools thrive as they attract an increasing number of students originating from the ethnic Romanian majority population. A participatory photography project explored how these young multilingual Transylvanians position themselves in relation to the German-Saxon heritage in their social and physical environment. An important aim was to trace any shifts in ethnic self-identification, and to assess the actual importance of ethnic categories as opposed to socio-economic considerations. The project also explored ways in which a Photovoice approach is useful combined with other, non-visual methods.

Mots clés: German-speaking minority; Transylvania; German-language schools; participatory photography; ethnic self-identification; photovoice approach

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Anne Delouis. Young Transylvanians between Memories of a Multicultural Past and Aspirations for a European Future: A Photovoice Project in a German-language School. Visual Ethnography, 2016, Participatory Approaches to Visual Ethnography from the Digital to the Handmade, ed. by Francesca Bayre, Krista Harper and Ana I. Afonso, 5 (1), ⟨10.12835/ve2016.1-0059⟩. ⟨halshs-01450177⟩