Positioning and Identity
Two views on Subject/identity:
1.Subjects as grounds for
discourse
2.positions as grounded
in discourses (also variably called
‘master narratives’, ‘plot lines’, ‘master plots’, ‘dominant
discourses’, or simply ‘cultural texts’) which are viewed as
providing the meanings and values within which subjects are
‘positioned’
The
‘problem of agency’ is addressed by giving the subject a semi-agentive status inasmuch as discourses are construed as
inherently contradictive and in competition with one another, so that
subjects are forced to choose: They ‘agentively’ pick a
position among those available. Thus, positions are resources that subjects
can choose and when practiced for a while they become repertoires that
can be drawn on.
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