Working for the subaltern means their insertion into citizenship and loss of subaltern space
Evidence
Even as we try to learn from and keep alive the rules and fragments of a compromised responsibility-based cluster of attitudes with which the general problems that we confront in postindustrial societies can be critiqued, and perhaps in some remote, impossible future, even solved; even as we try to keep them alive, we cannot forget that working for the subaltern means the subaltern’s insertion into citizenship, whatever that might mean, and thus the undoing of subaltern space. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2430
Categorization
- XREF: The self-undermining endgame of subaltern politics parallels the strategic-essentialism bind — the goal dissolves the very category it mobilizes. — connects to: Every observable moment of subalternity is already a crisis that undermines pure subalternity — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2293; Subalternity by definition marks a space that resists being directly witnessed — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2293; Subaltern transition from passive thing to active historical protagonist changes their responsibility — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1207 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Subaltern transition from passive thing to active historical protagonist changes their responsibility
#expands(0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1207 - Ascendant groups develop from subaltern to hegemonic status through acquiring autonomy and allies
#complicates(0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 419 - Attending to the subaltern is necessary despite unavoidably erring
#expands(0.80) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2429 - Subaltern history traces development toward full autonomy
#complicates(0.78) - A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order
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