In this article the author presents the problem of subjectivity in terms of neoliberal culture from a critical perspective. The author explores relation between neoliberalism and production of certain types of subjectivity. A useful tool undertaken in this analysis is Robert Kwaśnica’s concept of two rationalities: instrumental and emancipatory. Production of certain rationalities is reflected in the varying attitudes to themselves, other people and also in relation to the educational prospects. The author concludes that education often serves for improving situation on the labor market and competing with other units. This way of thinking is located in the perspective of instrumental rationality. It turns out that one of the key features of the neoliberal discourse is therefore building a specific identity of the individual, which reveals its educational value.
W tekście została podjęta problematyka uczenia się oraz konstruowania tożsamości feministycznej w warunkach uczestnictwa w protestach. Autor analizuje w nim pięć wywiadów narracyjnych z uczestniczkami różnego rodzaju demonstracji (m.in. Manify, Czarny Protest) i innych działań o charakterze feministycznym. Badane poruszają wątki, które można ująć w perspektywie uczenia się społeczno-kulturowego w obrębie wspólnot buntu i niezadowolenia społecznego. Okazuje się, że uczestnictwo w działaniach buntowniczych przyczynia się do wytwarzania, a być może intensyfikowania tożsamości feministycznej. Autor opisuje te mechanizmy i problematyzuje kwestię polityki tożsamości zgodnie z pytaniem Judith Butler: czy feminizm potrzebuje polityki tożsamości?
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The issues of learning and feminist identity-building in terms of participating in protests are addressed in this text. The author analyzes five narrative interviews with female participants of various types of demonstrations (including “Manifas”, Black Protests) and other feminist mobilisations. The interviewees discuss topics that can be included in the perspective of socio-cultural learning within communities of rebellion and social dissatisfaction. It turns out that participation in rebel actions contributes to the production and perhaps intensification of feminist identity. The author describes these mechanisms and problematises the issue of identity politics according to the question of Judith Butler: Does feminism need identity politics?
W niniejszym artykule autor prezentuje problematykę podmiotowości w warunkach kultury neoliberalnej w krytycznym ujęciu. Bada w nim zależności między neoliberalizmem a wytwarzaniem określonych typów podmiotowości. Użytecznym narzędziem w podejmowanej analizie jest koncepcja dwóch racjonalności opisanych przez Roberta Kwaśnicę: instrumentalnej i emancypacyjnej. Wytwarzanie określonych racjonalności odzwierciedla się w odmiennym nastawieniu do siebie, innych ludzi a także w stosunku do perspektyw edukacyjnych. Autor konstatuje, że edukacja często służy polepszaniu sytuacji na rynku pracy, konkurowaniu z innymi jednostkami, co myślenie o niej lokuje w perspekperspektywie racjonalności instrumentalnej. Zatem jedną z kluczowych funkcji dyskursu neoliberalnego jest budowanie określonej tożsamości jednostki, co odsłania jego walor edukacyjny.
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In this article the author presents the problem of subjectivity in terms of neoliberal culture from a critical perspective. The author explores relation between neoliberalism and production of certain types of subjectivity. A useful tool undertaken in this analysis is Robert Kwaśnica’s concept of two rationalities: instrumental and emancipatory. Production of certain rationalities is reflected in the varying attitudes to themselves, other people and also in relation to the educational prospects. The author concludes that education often serves for improving situation on the labor market and competing with other units. This way of thinking is located in the perspective of instrumental rationality. It turns out that one of the key features of the neoliberal discourse is therefore building a specific identity of the individual, which reveals its educational value.
This article discusses a fragment of an empirical study on the learning of adults participating in various forms of rebellion such as manifestations, demonstrations, urban activism and many others. Several interviewees from Spain pointed out the importance of specific places in their practices of rebellion and learning. These ‘significant places’ could be an important context of people’s lifelong learning. They mediate activities, build social relationships, produce norms, values and – what is crucial from the point of view of biographical research – construct the identities of rebels.
Celem tekstu jest zaprezentowanie rezultatów jednego ze sposobów uprawiania badań biograficznych w kontekście uczenia się osób dorosłych. Tekst jest częścią badań empirycznych dotyczących uczącego potencjału buntu i mechanizmów sprawstwa.
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The aim of this article is to present the results of one of the ways of conducting biographical research in the context of adult learning. The text is part of the empirical research on the learning potential of rebellion and mechanisms of agency. The presented fragment of research is the analysis of the case of a woman coming from Mexico who has participated in protests for many years. A semi-structured narrative (biographical) interview starting with the question „How did it happen that you take part in the protests?” was the method of collecting empirical material. The research was based on the fulfillment of the ethical standards in qualitative research (consent to participate in the research, recording of the interview and making transcription). The context-sensitive analysis, which consists in differentiating topics in conversation, condensing the text and extracting contexts expressions, was the method used to analyse the interview. These contexts became the starting point to the interpretation of the narrative. The analysis covered the whole interview, but the report analyses the most important fragments. This type of analysis is firmly grounded in the narration and it has the potential for creating a theory.
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