Tradition discursively connects past, community, and identity.

Evidence

Tradition does not mean something fixed. It is, rather, a recognition of the embodied character of all discourse. “It is a special sort of discursive concept in the sense that it performs a distinctive kind of labour; it seeks to connect authoritatively, within the structure of its narrative, a relation among past, community and identity. It depends upon a play of conflict and contention. It is a space of dispute as much as of consensus, of discourse as much as of accord” (Scott 1999). — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 401

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines tradition as an embodied discursive concept that performs authoritative relational work between past, community, and identity.
• XREF: Connects to how Islamophobia readings treat ‘tradition’ as constructed rather than fixed; also echoes Hall’s own encoding/decoding strain of thought. — connects to: Agriculture replaces nomadic presentism with past-and-future rooted identity; Commons are reinvented historical practices that villagers legitimize through analogies to past traditions. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 83; Historical narratives serve different functions in identity-forming versus change-driving commons. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 82 (+4 more)