nate writes:
>
>
>Daine said:
>"i think ideology is a shared belief system that operates to suppress
>difference by representing only the desired Dominant belief system -
>producing it as the Normal way for humans to be acting in the world ..."
>
>And I am wondering if there is one such Dominant belief system. It seems
>there are many that are interrelated into an ideological effect.
absolutely - 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 - i would reckon that
Activity theory
here is more useful for understanding these interrelations, as opposed to
a singular focus on behaviors, etc.
> Or even how
>discourses that may not be so dominant end up supporting dominant ones in
>some ways.
Ya-huh! acting or speaking against a a particular discourse can often end
up re-inforcing the oppression, "...resistance is futile;" comes to mind,
here.
here is where i think it is interesting to step outside the "activity" in
some way,
speaking in other languages, not at the dominance or about the dominance,
but in/different to its practice - this is what G. Stein was doing, i
think. The problem is
always then about listening and hearing - who hears the strange languages
of
in/difference? who listens? Stein writes, "We listen as we know," and i
think,
in the contexts of speaking or writing about activities that have been
studied,
who is listening? is an interesting question, in terms of Discourses and
such.... hmm.
ponder ponder ponder muse muse, thanks for the nudge, Nate.
diane
>
>
>
>
**********************************************************************
: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")
***********************************************************************
diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
==================== ==================== =======================
university of colorado, denver, school of education
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue May 23 2000 - 09:21:18 PDT