Critical Challenges in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: the Urgency of Agency
Abstract only The article addresses the challenge of conceptualizing agency within a non-dichotomous, dialectical approach that gives full credit to the social roots of agency and does justice to it being an achievement of togetherness possible only in a communal world shared with others. Critical s...
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| Abstract | Abstract only The article addresses the challenge of conceptualizing agency within a non-dichotomous, dialectical approach that gives full credit to the social roots of agency and does justice to it being an achievement of togetherness possible only in a communal world shared with others. Critical steps in this direction are undertaken by the Transformative Activist Stance (TAS) approach advanced by this article’s author and further developed and applied to various topics by scholars from many parts of the world. This approach is firmly rooted in cultural-historical activity theory yet also moves beyond it in overcoming some of its impasses. The core elements of TAS are discussed to reveal how they coalesce on the nexus of social practices of self- and world-making. Agency is the process that enacts this nexus of ongoing, ceaseless social-individual transformations whereby people simultaneously, in one process, co-create their world and themselves so that each individual person makes a difference and matters in the totality of social practices. Ethical-political entailments of TAS are discussed to combat the legacy of passivity and inequality still permeating psychology and neighboring fields. Статья посвящена проблеме осмысления субъектности (agency) в контексте недихотомического, диалектического подхода, в рамках которого уделяется полное внимание социальным корням субъектности и подчеркивается её статус как достижение совместности, возможное лишь в мире разделенном с другими. Существенные шаги в этом направлении предпринимаются в рамках теории «трансформирующей позиции активизма» (TAS), предложенной автором настоящей статьи и разрабатываемой многими исследователями из разных странах. Этот подход уходит корнями в культурно-историческую теорию деятельности и в то же время выходит за её пределы, позволяя преодолеть некоторые её ограничения. В статье раскрываются ключевые положения TAS, показано, как они фокусируются на сплетении в единую цепь социальных практик ко-конструирования человека и мира. Субъектность является процессом, запускающим эту цепь непрерывных социоиндивидуальных трансформаций, в которых люди симультанно, в едином процессе, совместно конструируют мир и самих себя таким образом, что каждый человек вносит свой вклад и оказывается значимым в совокупном пространстве социальных практик. Этические и политические следствия TAS обсуждаются с целью преодолеть наследие пассивности и неравенства, по-прежнему пронизывающих психологию и смежные области. |
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| AbstractList | The article addresses the challenge of conceptualizing agency within a non-dichotomous, dialectical approach that gives full credit to the social roots of agency and does justice to it being an achievement of togetherness possible only in a communal world shared with others. Critical steps in this direction are undertaken by the Transformative Activist Stance (TAS) approach advanced by this article’s author and further developed and applied to various topics by scholars from many parts of the world. This approach is firmly rooted in cultural-historical activity theory yet also moves beyond it in overcoming some of its impasses. The core elements of TAS are discussed to reveal how they coalesce on the nexus of social practices of self- and world-making. Agency is the process that enacts this nexus of ongoing, ceaseless social-individual transformations whereby people simultaneously, in one process, co-create their world and themselves so that each individual person makes a difference and matters in the totality of social practices. Ethical-political entailments of TAS are discussed to combat the legacy of passivity and inequality still permeating psychology and neighboring fields. Abstract only The article addresses the challenge of conceptualizing agency within a non-dichotomous, dialectical approach that gives full credit to the social roots of agency and does justice to it being an achievement of togetherness possible only in a communal world shared with others. Critical steps in this direction are undertaken by the Transformative Activist Stance (TAS) approach advanced by this article’s author and further developed and applied to various topics by scholars from many parts of the world. This approach is firmly rooted in cultural-historical activity theory yet also moves beyond it in overcoming some of its impasses. The core elements of TAS are discussed to reveal how they coalesce on the nexus of social practices of self- and world-making. Agency is the process that enacts this nexus of ongoing, ceaseless social-individual transformations whereby people simultaneously, in one process, co-create their world and themselves so that each individual person makes a difference and matters in the totality of social practices. Ethical-political entailments of TAS are discussed to combat the legacy of passivity and inequality still permeating psychology and neighboring fields. Статья посвящена проблеме осмысления субъектности (agency) в контексте недихотомического, диалектического подхода, в рамках которого уделяется полное внимание социальным корням субъектности и подчеркивается её статус как достижение совместности, возможное лишь в мире разделенном с другими. Существенные шаги в этом направлении предпринимаются в рамках теории «трансформирующей позиции активизма» (TAS), предложенной автором настоящей статьи и разрабатываемой многими исследователями из разных странах. Этот подход уходит корнями в культурно-историческую теорию деятельности и в то же время выходит за её пределы, позволяя преодолеть некоторые её ограничения. В статье раскрываются ключевые положения TAS, показано, как они фокусируются на сплетении в единую цепь социальных практик ко-конструирования человека и мира. Субъектность является процессом, запускающим эту цепь непрерывных социоиндивидуальных трансформаций, в которых люди симультанно, в едином процессе, совместно конструируют мир и самих себя таким образом, что каждый человек вносит свой вклад и оказывается значимым в совокупном пространстве социальных практик. Этические и политические следствия TAS обсуждаются с целью преодолеть наследие пассивности и неравенства, по-прежнему пронизывающих психологию и смежные области. |
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