i wrote:
> i think this why it is so difficult to untangle what might
>not be
>ideological; that is, identifying the belief systems and the ways they
>organize any
>activity is more useful than simply relegating an activity to/as ideology
>- the effects
>are more important, really, than the beliefs -
.. and then later tried to think of a context where this might be true,
and could not;
so, i think that identifying the beliefs at work is as important as
understanding the effects. Especially in sites (like nearly everywhere)
where heterosexuality is the operative ideology, and one youth might refer
to another,
in some friendly manner, by saying "That's so gay," or "Oh you fag," or
"You are such a girl," where such remarks are made amongst friends,
not as slurs, but as banter, shared discourses affirming the heterosexual
norm,
it is AS important to recognize how heterosexism enables these
as it is so identify how these operate as oppressive effects, re youth who
are
gay and repressed because of the familiarity with dominant slang, not to
mention violence and murder-
i would think the same goes for whiteness and maleness, that identifying
how Whiteness operates to produce effects in activity, and as maleness
operates in the same ways, ideologically, and so Normally, and so
producing quite Normal effects;
that while these ideologies have been poo-poohed as, let us say, tiresome,
they are still dominant, they are still oppressive, and there are still
effects of these
that undulate through all activity - so, NOT identifying the ideology at
work
prevents one, i think, from understanding how these effect activity, and so
effect the work of Activity theory.
ok.
diane
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:point where everything listens.
and i slow down, learning how to
enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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university of colorado, denver, school of education
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