xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>To return to the practical and mundane, perhaps we need to have a
>discussion topic or some discussion topics around certain themes--perhaps,
>around how disciplines such as psychology or education or linguistics or
>applied linguistics have/have not in different ways contributed to the
>present crisis (both political, military, emotional...and
>intellectual...),
>perhaps, how the construction of different subjectivities, of different
>subject positions (e.g., of a suicidal religious fighter/killer; or of a
>patriotic, nationalistic revengeful citizen)--how the sociohistorical
>cultural processes, practices, and symbolic systems involved in such
>"subjection" processes (in the on-going processes of production of subject
>positions and subjectivities) are not too different--in producing me and
>you, him and her, a Muslim figther, an American fighter, an academic, ...
>--how all these processes might share some seemingly common mechanisms and
>techniques and practices though radically different in appearances.
Angel,
thanks so much for the thoughtful response. i personally appreciated your
thoughts, words, quite a lot.
i think the idea of thematic discussion is quite perfect, moving out of
discipline-constraints and enabling a wider perspective -
now, indeed, multiple perspectives are abounding, and understanding all
that is taking place
requires a more sophisticated approach, something beyond
discipline-constrained rhetoric.
the questionsyou indicate, about how we are involved in the choices we
make, is profound - the assumptions of autonomy and choice,
indeed, are subject to a variety of social investments - can a girl raised
in contemporary Palestine cultivate a world-view that
is not invested in preserving kinds of victimization?
indeed, can white people possibly understand the difference of ethnicity
in global contexts?
understanding the ways race ideology has been advanced (we are all human
beings) in lieu of culture, politics, histories,
indeed, seems to me to be a valuable place to begin.
diane
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"Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a
cigarette in a gutter - all are stories. But which is the true story? That
I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard,
waiting for someone to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making
this note and then another, I do not cling to life."
Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931.
(...life clings to me...)
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, montreal, qc, H9R 3Z2
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