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Multiple Aspects In The Sense Of Agency, Shaun Gallagher
Multiple Aspects In The Sense Of Agency, Shaun Gallagher
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Recent significant research in a number of disciplines centers on the concept of the sense of agency. Because many of these studies cut across disciplinary lines there is good reason to seek a clear consensus on what ‘sense of agency’ means. In this paper I indicate some complexities that this consensus might have to deal with. I also highlight an important phenomenological distinction that needs to be considered in any discussion of the sense of agency, regardless of how it gets defined. Finally, I suggest that the sense of agency has an ambiguous phenomenology and I offer some critical comments …
Questioning Appropriation: Agency And Complicity In A Transnational Feminist Location Politics, Joe Parker
Questioning Appropriation: Agency And Complicity In A Transnational Feminist Location Politics, Joe Parker
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
In feminist circles agency is often opposed to complicity and associated with resistance to sexism and patriarchy, yet such binary oppositions make the political stakes of their presumed boundaries difficult to interrogate. By bringing location politics into dialogue with agency theory, boundaries of same/Other and location categories may move from a naturalized ground for political work to the contested center of a politics of resistance. I follow a Foucauldian interpretation of agency to reconsider the ethico-politics of established divisions of self and Other both individually and in terms of social movements. By following Gayatri Spivak, Meyda Yeğenoğlu, and Chandra Mohanty's …