Identity is positional and processual, never reducible to one fixed position

Evidence

It makes us aware that identities are never completed, never finished, that they are always, as subjectivity itself is, in process. That itself is a pretty difficult task. Though we have always known it a little bit, we have always thought about ourselves as getting more like ourselves every day. But that is a sort of Hegelian notion, of going forward to meet that which we always were. I want to open that process up considerably. Identity is always in the process of formation. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 203 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Identity axes of difference fail to align into a single opposition; Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given; Identity can only be understood through difference, never self-sameness — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1189 (+8 more)

Related

• Identity is perpetually in formation, never a completed essence. (similarity 0.91)
• Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given (similarity 0.86)
• Black political identity is historically constructed and always positional, never essential. (similarity 0.85)
• The new identification produces a self that did not preexist it. (similarity 0.84)
• Political positions are valid only for their conjunctural moment, not forever. (similarity 0.84)
• No political outcome is guaranteed by any identity position (similarity 0.84)
• Identity is constituted by context and asserted only as a partial account. (similarity 0.83)
• Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given (similarity 0.83)
• Identity labels serve only as starting points, never fixed essences. (similarity 0.81)
• Identity is internally mediated by the non-identical (similarity 0.81)
• Identity must be theorized as simultaneously fixed by and escaping meaning. (similarity 0.81)
• Identity emerges in discourse rather than preceding it (similarity 0.80)
• Identity’s return in politics is not a return to traditional or 1960s formulations (similarity 0.80)
• Identity can only be understood through difference, never self-sameness (similarity 0.80)
• Identity similarity is interactionally achieved, not a matter of actual sameness. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Political identities are always historically constructed and positional, never fixed #corroborates (0.95)
• Identity is constituted within representation rather than pre-existing it #corroborates (0.90)
• Identity is perpetually in formation, never a completed essence. #corroborates (0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 203
• Identity is a contradictory, multi-discursive, non-closed totality #expands (0.80)