Strategic identity functions as a field of representation enabling agency, not self-knowledge.

Evidence

In some languages, this fact that history is a storying is not as clear as it is in some other languages. French happens to be one I know. This alternate storying doesn’t give you an identity, if you think of identity as something intimately personal which lets you know who you are. It gives you a whole field of representation within which something like an “identity” can be represented as a basis for agency. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 233 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: History as storying yields representational fields enabling identity-based agency — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 233

Related

• History as storying yields representational fields enabling identity-based agency (similarity 0.90)
• Identity claims need not yield agency, which is a blank word (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• History as storying yields representational fields enabling identity-based agency #expands (0.85) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 233