TY - JOUR
AU1 - Tappan, Mark B.
AB - In this paper I present an approach to understanding the dialogical self thatconsiders the role that social, cultural and institutional dynamics of dominationand subordination, and structures of power of privilege, play in the development ofidentity. To accomplish this I expand Penuel and Wertsch’s (1995)‘mediated action’ approach to identity development to include adialogical process of what Mikhail Bakhtin (1981) calls ‘ideologicalbecoming’. Using the Autobiography of Malcolm X as anillustrative example, I argue that the development of Malcolm’s identity,via the process of ideological becoming, is influenced in profound ways by hisexperience of subordination and oppression, and his lack of power and privilege,growing up as a black man in the United States in the first half of the 20thcentury. Thus the ‘politics of ideological becoming’refers to the degree to which the process of identity formation is necessarilydifferent for persons from different social locations, who stand in differentrelationship to structures and systems of power, privilege and authority.
TI - Domination, Subordination and the Dialogical Self: Identity Development and the Politics of ‘Ideological Becoming’
JF - Culture & Psychology
DO - 10.1177/1354067X05050743
DA - 2005-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/domination-subordination-and-the-dialogical-self-identity-development-8X88H4jegJ
SP - 47
EP - 75
VL - 11
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -