[Xmca-l] Re: Research on refugees/immigrants/migrants and Legitimate Peripheral Participation?

[Andy Blunden]

Alfredo, I think it is precisely by participation in a 
common activity (or project or community of practice) that 
oppression takes place. The apprentice voluntarily submits 
themself to the activity and the division of labour, roles, 
etc., inherent in it. The master necessarily has power over 
the apprentice, and active attention is required to avoid 
exploitation and oppression to avoid the master exploiting 
the apprentice in the process of inducting them into the 
practice.

If, for example, the apprentice already had the skills and 
tools required for the relevant practice then they would 
need an apprenticeship and would not be vulnerable to 
exploitation.

Although exploitation and oppression probably does occur 
when the master does not have anything that the apprentice 
needs, but I think that is exceptional.

Andy

------------------------------------------------------------
*Andy Blunden*
https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 27/06/2019 9:18 pm, Alfredo Jornet Gil wrote:
>
> Just to add, that the problem I'd like to learn more about 
> is, how does a framework that takes apprenticeship and 
> community as starting point help when the object of 
> research is one that concerns oppression and dehumanisation?
>
>
> Alfredo
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu 
> <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Alfredo 
> Jornet Gil <a.j.gil@ils.uio.no>
> *Sent:* 27 June 2019 02:37
> *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Re: Research on 
> refugees/immigrants/migrants and Legitimate Peripheral 
> Participation?
>
> I cannot help with this, Greg, since I don't know of work 
> specifically connecting the two. But if your student gets 
> to write about that, I'd be very interested in reading 
> her/his work.
>
>
> A few days ago, I was listening Amy Goodman's interview 
> with a lawyer who visited children detention centres in 
> the US border. I literally cried as I was commuting to 
> work listening to the horrendous inhumanity being described.
>
>
> (Interview here:) 
> https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2019/6/24
>
>
> Now, reading your question, I wondered, what is 
> "legitimate participation" for a child in a detention 
> center? What is the center and what the periphery in such 
> a context? And for a Syrian refugee in a shelter in 
> Turkey? Is there anything like a community of practice 
> that belongs to being a refugee or immigrant?
>
>
> Not that I am sceptical about or questioning the relevance 
> of the approach to the issue. Just that I don't know how, 
> would like to know.
>
>
> Best,​
>
> Alfredo
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu 
> <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Greg 
> Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 26 June 2019 18:23
> *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Research on 
> refugees/immigrants/migrants and Legitimate Peripheral 
> Participation?
> Just wondering if anyone out there could point me to 
> research on refugees/immigrants/migrants and Legitimate 
> Peripheral Participation (or otherwise connect the former 
> with Lave and Wenger's communities of practice)?
>
> (this is for a student of mine)
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> -- 
> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> 880 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> WEBSITE: greg.a.thompson.byu.edu 
> <http://greg.a.thompson.byu.edu>
> http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ucsd.edu/pipermail/xmca-l/attachments/20190627/e705799e/attachment.html