Identity can be denaturalized to reveal its crafted and contingent nature.
Evidence
In denaturalization, by contrast, such claims to the inevitability or inherent rightness of identities is subverted. What is called attention to instead is the ways in which identity is crafted, fragmented, problematic, or false. Such aspects often emerge most clearly in parodic performance and in some displays of hybrid identity (e.g. Bucholtz, 1995; Jaffe, 2000; Woolard, 1998), but they may also appear whenever an identity violates ideological expectations (e.g. Barrett, 1999; Rampton, 1995). — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 94
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘denaturalization’ as the tactic that subverts the apparent inevitability of identity.
- XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s purpose — denaturalization plus authentication are the twin strategies that keep identity open and negotiated rather than fixed. — connects to: Visible identity markers are everyday evidence that identity is performed, not natural. — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 252; Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 363; Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given (+12 more)
Broader Connections
- Human identity is constructed and occasionally invented, not natural and stable
#corroborates(0.95) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 839 - Contemporary identity is self-fashioning rather than fixed essence
#corroborates(0.90) - Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given
#corroborates(0.88) - Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously.
#expands(0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 363 - Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself
#expands(0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378 - Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other
#expands(0.84) - Modern identity is constituted through the exclusion of its own opposite
#expands(0.83) - Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not
#expands(0.82) - Individual identity resists destruction because it depends on nature beyond the will
#contradicts(0.82) - Individuals can deliberately reconstruct their public identities to escape origins
#exemplifies(0.80) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 280 - Identity is formed through contrast with difference
#expands(0.80) - Group identity is malleable and its salience can shift.
#exemplifies(0.75) - The modern discourse of identity depends on others’ recognition, unlike older meanings of sameness.
#qualifies(0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 778