Difference is a generative relationship, not a fixed property of things

Evidence

We say, for example, “this is not that. It is different because …” In this sense difference isn’t really a thing, or an object, but rather a creative or generative condition created because of relationships among things. Indeed, we want to emphasize that relationships are key to both democracy and sustainability. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 309

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s eco-justice thread on relationship-centered rather than individual-centered thinking. — connects to: Soil composition emerges from relationships among elemental differences — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 468; Meaning arises from relations between differences, not content resemblance — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 359; Relation forms a self-sustaining generative system rather than a static being (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Difference is relational, embedded in power, and generative. #corroborates (0.90) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 88
• Meaning arises from relations between differences, not content resemblance #corroborates (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 359
• Différance produces meaning through a weave of differences, not binaries #corroborates (0.85)
• Relation forms a self-sustaining generative system rather than a static being #expands (0.80)
• Relation constantly differentiates and transforms its components rather than merely linking them #expands (0.80) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 866
• Meaning arises from relations of difference between terms #corroborates (0.80)
• Producing sameness requires creating and externalizing difference #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 20
• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #corroborates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• Articulated unity relates parts through differences and subordination, not identity #corroborates (0.75)
• Word meaning arises from differences among words, not representation #exemplifies (0.75) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 457