Identity is constituted by context and asserted only as a partial account.

Evidence

This idea fits well with postmodern theorizings of identity as fractured and discontinuous, for as anthropologist Kamala Visweswaran has noted, ‘Identities are constituted by context and are themselves asserted as partial accounts’ (1994: 41). — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 109

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘partial accounts’ ethics rooted in feminist ethnography connects to the reader’s interest in positionality as one of the five principles. — connects to: Agency is better understood as accomplished social action than as individual autonomous intent. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 114; Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not; Identity forms only within collectivities rooted in historical circumstances — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4119 (+16 more)

Related

• Identity is positional and processual, never reducible to one fixed position (similarity 0.83)
• Identity ranges across macro demographic categories, local cultural positions, and fleeting interactional stances. (similarity 0.82)
• Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given (similarity 0.82)
• All representations of culture are necessarily partial accounts (similarity 0.81)
• Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given (similarity 0.81)
• The constitutive outside makes alterity both possible and impossible for identity (similarity 0.80)
• Identity emerges in discourse rather than preceding it (similarity 0.80)
• Identity is perpetually in formation, never a completed essence. (similarity 0.80)
• Identity analyses should combine multiple dimensions rather than foreground one (similarity 0.79)
• No single method can capture all of identity’s complexity (similarity 0.79)
• Identity is constituted through representation, not expressed from lived experience. (similarity 0.79)
• Identity relations involve more than a single sameness-difference axis. (similarity 0.79)
• Human identity is constructed and occasionally invented, not natural and stable (similarity 0.79)
• Identity forms only within collectivities rooted in historical circumstances (similarity 0.79)
• Identity similarity is interactionally achieved, not a matter of actual sameness. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not #expands (0.80)
• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• Identity is constituted through splitting and an interiorized Other, not pure difference. #expands (0.80)
• Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given #expands (0.80)
• Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously. #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 363
• Without destruction of prior form, identity cannot sustain itself. #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 245
• All identity requires an ‘other’ against which it is defined #expands (0.80)
• Identity forms only within collectivities rooted in historical circumstances #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4119
• Identity is constituted through representation, not expressed from lived experience. #expands (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 291
• Identity is constituted within representation rather than pre-existing it #expands (0.75)
• Identity is defined oppositionally, against those one is not. #expands (0.75)
• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #expands (0.75)
• Identity is a political claim to belonging, not a fixed trait #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2696
• Minority identity is claimed as a matter of visceral belonging, not abstract legal category #expands (0.75)
• Identity is now a matter of choice rather than inherited absolute truth #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 112