Week 5
The groups work from this week is in ARCHIVE so the process is all together on one page
Week 6
I had to leave earlier this day so that's why I was not aware of the homework. Now in Week 6 I still want to read the paper and want to answer the questions. I see that now we are getting more in the minor I start to understand the classes and the auto theory better but it is extra important for me to keep reading and be busy with it because I came to develop and I see that the process started.
What are the three concepts of identity Hall describes?
1. Enlightenment subject
2. Sociological subject
3 .Post-modern subject
What are the characteristics of these differing conceptualizations of identity?
1. Enlightenment subject = Individual existence. The essential center of the self to see as a persons identity. Mostly seen as men
2. Sociological subject = autonomous and self-sufficient.
3 .Post-modern subject. = no fixed. Identity becomes a moveable feast. It's formed and transformed continuously.
Which one of these 3 concepts makes sense to your experience of your own identity?
My own identity comes closed to post-modern subject. I have different identities in different places. I have Kelsey that goes to Hengelo. I have Kelsey with my friends where I can discuss and talk about subjects. You have sick Kelsey. You have Kelsey at work or at school. I think most people switch in their identities kind of. For example my family can say certain things I don't agree with. They are really a typical example of being Dutch and their are also pro-black pete. Their was a time I tried to fight to change them but when my brother said that I'm only like this because I have a relationship with black pete I did not know if I was still comfortable enough to keep discussing with them. It is double because I want to change them but they don't want to listen or change.
But whenever I'm at my job I can discuss hours with people who are on the same line with me. Because they are in my eyes more educated. Should it be a mindset in the city you are in? I don't know it can also be a social class thing.
1. Cultural attributes
I'm a woman, feminist and Dutch. I'm born in Holland.
2. Physical characteristics
I have a disabled body. I'm born sick. But I can still work and go to school apart from that I have to spend sometimes in the month going to doctor appointments and I have to find moment to literally do nothing because their are days it is hard for me to get out of bed.
3. Social relationships
I have a relationship. I come from a family of 6. I have a big family apart from that. I have good friends and less good friends. I'm really social so I also know a lot of different kind of people on school, work and people around that in my network in Fashion but i'm still having a small small circle I share everything with what I would like to keep close.
4. The spaces that you move through
At the moment i'm at home. But normally my live is basically in Amsterdam and sometimes I visit my family in Twente. I move through museums, my house, nature. I find my inspiration mostly outside.
Can you think about which/if one aspect of your identity seems to be societally prominent? Which one causes you some trouble and which ones go largely unnoticed (even to you perhaps 😉) -
I always know of course that I'm a woman but I always unnoticed (or ignored) that there is a difference society look at us or threat us. I was just always okay. Till some months ago a woman said to me you not a feminist? then I started thinking and it became more noticeable.
Stuart Hall on identity and identification
Notes:
"identity only becomes an issue when it is in crisis, when
something assumed to be fixed, coherent and stable is displaced by the
experience of doubt and uncertainty" P597
This produces the post-modern subiect, conceptualized as having no
fixed, essential, or permanent identity. Identity becomes a "moveable
feast": formed and transformed continuously in relation to the ways u'e
are represented or addressed in the cultural systems which surround u.
(HaU, 1gB7). P598
It questioned the classic distinction between "inside" and "outside,"
"private" and "public." Feminism's slogan was "the personal is
political." P611