Creating Subjectivities

Affect, Performance and Queer Subjectivities

Globalization, the Chinese State, and Chinese Subjectivities. A Review Essay

China has long been portrayed as a collectivist society where the state, the family, and political economy define, control, and overwhelm individual subjectivities. While this portrayal has been useful in highlighting the hegemonic power of various institutions of Chinese society, it has often caused the scholarship on China to overlook the significance of private life, individual agency, and m...

Economic and Political Subjectivities in Public Discourses on Education

Projections based on historical relationships (bearing in mind the uncertainties of future projections) suggest that if all OECD countries could boost their average PISA scores by 25 points over the next two decades, the aggregate gain of OECD GDP would be USD 115 trillion over the lifetime of the generation born in 2010...Bringing all countries up to the OECD’s best performing education system...

Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet

This thesis is an examination of non-binary transgender communities on the internet and the new, non-binary modes of subjectivity that can be read within these spaces. After my first introductory chapter, which situates my work in the context of previous contributions to transgender theory, I approach non-binary online communities from different perspectives. My second chapter reads certain cod...

Understanding Positive Subjectivities Made Possible Online for Disabled People

The ideology of individualism underlying identity and psychology’s focus on a visual ontology may serve to inhibit the social value of people with disabilities. The online medium with its capacity for textual self presentation presents a potentially new environment to operate within. This study set out to explore the psychological meaning of what it meant to be online for people with disabiliti...