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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain under Grant RTI2018-096495-B-I00. The first author has received co-funding from the Madrid Community Programme for Attracting Research Talent (2017-T2/SOC-5469).

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Van Alphen, FloorCorresponding AuthorLopez, CesarAuthor

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November 7, 2022
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Diverse transnational backgrounds, same master narrative? Constructions of a national past among middle-school students

Publicated to:CULTURE & PSYCHOLOGY. 29 (2): 280-299 - 2023-06-01 29(2), DOI: 10.1177/1354067x221135041

Authors: van Alphen, Floor; Lopez, Cesar

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Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Basic Psychol, Ciudad Univ Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain - Author

Abstract

In this study, we aimed to explore the various ways in which the past is constructed, using or tinkering with a national master narrative, by students surrounded by and immersed in contemporary transnational plurality. Specifically, we studied the permanence of or variations on the Spanish 'reconquest' narrative among 14 to 15-year-old students of a public school in Madrid. Semi-structured individual interviews were carried out with 30 students whose families came from Madrid, other regions in Spain and other countries around the world. We carried out a detailed narrative analysis of their constructions of the medieval past on the Iberian Peninsula and found that the 'reconquest' narrative still predominates. Few variations in their narratives were found that hint at counternarratives, the 'travelling' of narrative schema across national borders, or the transnational trajectories in their families feeding into their constructions. Given these findings, we discuss the role of alternative narrative schema and dynamic concepts of nation and national identity in challenging national master narratives.

Keywords

Collective memoryHistoryIdentityMaster narrativeMemoryNational historySchemaTransnationalityYouth

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal CULTURE & PSYCHOLOGY due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Cultural Studies.

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-19:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 5.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 6 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 0.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10486/710031

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (VAN ALPHEN, FLOOR) and Last Author (LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ, CESAR).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been VAN ALPHEN, FLOOR.