Re: [xmca] Politics of Difference: Succinct Summary Materials

Pressing hard on a deadline this second, but a cursory glance at the
article gave me two thoughts: 1) She gives us a good idea of the
cultural and historical moment of the emergence of identity politics,
but she could take her discussion beyond context and categories and
ground us more in theory and 2) her race/ethnicity/multiculturalism
discussion is basically limited to North America.

Linguistic/semiotic anthro work on multilingualism has come in handy
for me in thinking about these issues -- not just because I'm working
on issues of language and sign systems per se, but I'm doing so from
a sociocultural standpoint -- from which I can be easily inspired to
think about political, historical, gender, economic, etc. implications.

Hope that's useful,
Andrew

ps- funny..it's also not a coincidence that Brazil, like SA, has had
its own share of identity politics issues!

On Jun 29, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Mike Cole wrote:

> Thanks Andrew.
> Does the stanford encyclopedia article measure up?
> And for SURE, it must look different from So Africa.
> mike
> PS. Filling out an application to go to Brazil I am asked if I plan
> to visit
> indigenous people. There is a sure non-accidental co-occurence!
>
> On 6/29/07, Andrew Babson <ababson@umich.edu> wrote:
> Wilmsen and McAllister's edited volume has been helpful in my
> research on these issues S. Africa:
>
> http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13026.ctl
>
> **********************************************
> Andrew Babson, MSc.
> Doctoral Program, School of Education
> University of Michigan
>
>
> On Jun 29, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Mike Cole wrote:
>
> > While waiting for a meeting this morning I had the opportunity to
> fish
> > around a little for a good
> > source on "the politics of difference," a phrase I have often
> > encountered
> > without really understanding
> > its meaning/connection to other concepts. I found the following
> > site with an
> > essay that made a lot
> > of connections to concepts I am more familiar with and some authors
> > I have
> > read and even taught.
> > Perhaps others will find it useful. And perhaps the cogniscenti
> > among us
> > will tell us if it is off base.
> > mike
> >
> > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/
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