Diane and Jay,
I like the idea of discussing the role of His/her-tory in CHAT. Just
brainstorming here: there can be different angles to tackle the discussion;
I suggest widening the discussion to include personal histories (some
research angles: analyses of autobiographies and their constructiveness),
national/cultural histories (the political/social constructions and the
uses of them in power structures/hierarchies), and histories of sexuality
(e.g., Foucault's) and the production of subject positions. I'm interested
in how specific historical conditions both impose constraints and afford
resources on the possibility of the transformations of specific cultural
activity systems. How does that sound?
Best,
Angel
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>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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Angel Lin, Ph.D.(Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
University of Toronto)
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Communication
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon, Hong Kong
Fax: (852) 2788-8894; phone: (852) 2788-8122
E-mail: enangel@cityu.edu.hk
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/en/staff/angel/angel.html
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