Jacques Rancière and the Subversion of Mastery

Hallward, Peter

doi:10.3366/para.2005.28.1.26

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“…In affirming the identity of the non-participant, those who employ this subject identity to talk about others -such as the interviewees in the present research -are engaged in an act of micro power that suppresses the capacity of some to speak within the field of cultural policy. Instead, their voices are easily co-opted by cultural professionals in order to affirm the status quo and manage cultural policy towards their own advantage (see Davis, 2010 andHallward, 2005 for a discussion of how some groups can co-opt the voices of others). Ultimately, anyone labeled as a cultural non-participant is denied the capacity to make a meaningful contribution to how cultural policy decisions are made.…”

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The cultural non-participant: critical logics and discursive subject identities

Stevenson

2019

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Purpose The existence of so-called non-participants is a cultural policy problem in the UK and beyond. Yet, the very notion of a cultural non-participant seems nonsensical against the palpable evidence of lived experience. The purpose of this paper is to understand “who” a cultural non-participant is by first comprehending “what” the cultural non-participant is and why it exists. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on primary data generated in the form of 40 in-depth qualitative interviews, this paper employs a discursive methodology to explore the critical logics (Howarth, 2010) that underlie the problem representation (Bacchi, 2009) of cultural non-participation and in particular the discursive subject identity of the cultural non-participant. Findings Beginning with a discussion about how cultural non-participants are represented as socially deprived and hard to reach, the paper moves on to highlight how they are also presumed to lack knowledge and understanding about what they are rejecting. Their supposed flawed subjectivity is then contrasted with the desirable model of agency claimed by the cultural professionals who seek to change the cultural participation patterns of others. The paper concludes with a consideration of how the existence of the cultural non-participant subject identity limits the extent to which those labelled as such can meaningfully contribute to the field of cultural policy and obscures the extent to which such individuals are culturally disenfranchised. Research limitations/implications Because of the chosen research approach and the geographical limitations to the data generation, the research makes no claim to generalisability. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the discursive logics identified at alternative discursive sites. Practical implications This paper proposes a change in the language used by cultural professionals accompanied by changes in practice that abandoning the identity of the cultural non-participant would demand. Originality/value This paper challenges a taken for granted assumption that cultural non-participants exist “in the real”.

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The cultural non-participant: critical logics and discursive subject identities

Stevenson

2019

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“…. The concern of democracy is not with the formulation of agreement or the preservation of order but with the invention of new and hitherto unauthorised modes of disaggregation, disagreement and disorder’ (Hallward, 2005: 34–5). The politics of urban sustainability and the environment, therefore, in their populist postpolitical guise, are the antithesis of democracy and contribute to a further hollowing out of what, for Rancière and others, constitutes the very horizon of democracy as a radically heterogeneous and conflicting one.…”

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The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production

Swyngedouw

2009

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The end of the socialist alternative, then, did not signify any renewal of democratic debate. Instead, it signified the reduction of democratic life to the management of local consequences of global economic necessity. The latter, in fact, was posited as a common condition which I am grateful for comments of and discussions with my colleagues in the School of Environment and Development at Manchester University, in particular

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“…The distinction between identification and subjectification therefore suggests that there are two ways in which individuals can speak—or perhaps we might say: can come to speech (see also Hallward, 2005, and Ruitenberg in this Issue). On the one hand we can speak within a particular distribution of the sensible.…”

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Learner, Student, Speaker: Why it matters how we call those we teach

Biesta

2010

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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In this paper I discuss three different ways in which we can refer to those we teach: as learner, as student or as speaker. My interest is not in any aspect of teaching but in the question whether there can be such a thing as emancipatory education. Working with ideas from Jacques Rancière I offer the suggestion that emancipatory education can be characterised as education which starts from the assumption that all students can speak. It starts from the assumption, in other words, that students neither lack a capacity for speech, nor that they are producing noise. The idea of the student as a speaker is not offered as an empirical fact but as a different starting point for emancipatory education, one that positions equality at the beginning of education, not at its end

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Jacques Rancière and the Subversion of Mastery

Cited by 47 publications

References 1 publication

The cultural non-participant: critical logics and discursive subject identities

The cultural non-participant: critical logics and discursive subject identities

The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production

Learner, Student, Speaker: Why it matters how we call those we teach

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