Traditions are mutable and contested rather than fixed and class-bound
Evidence
Literacy produces instability and inconsistency because the written tradition is participated in so unevenly. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 639 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: “The people” is itself a contested construct, not a fixed subject; Tradition is about how elements are articulated, not about persistence of old forms — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1017; Cultures impose dominant, institutionalized preferred readings that are contested but not determined. (+18 more)
Related
- Uneven participation in written tradition produces instability and inconsistency (similarity 0.85)
- Cultures impose dominant, institutionalized preferred readings that are contested but not determined. (similarity 0.84)
- World literature trades unequally between a dominant center and periphery (similarity 0.83)
- Culture remained an indeterminate site of convergent interests, not a fixed concept. (similarity 0.82)
- Tradition is about how elements are articulated, not about persistence of old forms (similarity 0.81)
- Traditions are re-articulated arrangements, not fixed inheritances carrying stable meaning (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Cultural struggle shifts positions, never staying over the same meaning
#corroborates(0.70) - Culture as constitutive of practice retains contingency and is never finally determined
#corroborates(0.65) - Uneven participation in written tradition produces instability and inconsistency
#expands(0.60) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 639 - Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions
#exemplifies(0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421