The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
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事物的重新排序:大学及其少数民族差异的教学法
DOI:
10.5749/minnesota/9780816672783.001.0001
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发表时间:
2012
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R. Ferguson
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作者:
R. Ferguson
In The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference, Roderick A. Ferguson asserts, “[H]ow we read, write, [and] design a minority difference culture has everything to do with the kind of minority communities that we imagine and institutionalize and might become the very question of our own reinvigorated interdisciplinary life” (230). His latest work expands our understanding of the ways contemporary regimes of power incorporate, reconfigure, and manage modes of difference. Ferguson brings together literary, critical, and historical analysis and engages a “critique of relations” that theorizes how minority cultural forms and practices express “complex relationships between institutionality and textuality in the post-civil rights movement” (17). Focusing on the impact of the student movements of the 1960s and 1970s that resulted in the institutionalization of interdisciplinary fields such as ethnic studies and women’s and gender studies, the book considers how power normalizes difference. Ferguson analyzes narratives produced during the institutional transformations of the 1960s and 1970s and contemporary literary texts that represent the social upheavals of that period. In so doing, he traces a critical genealogy of oppositional and disidentificatory practices during the post-Civil Rights era and considers how student movements created opportunities for systems of power to develop policies of absorption regulating minority difference. Ferguson begins with Jacques Derrida’s notion of institutions and the archive in order to illustrate how the university, as a representative of the state and an adaptive archival power, has incorporated rather than repudiated difference so as to refine its practices of exclusion and regulation. For example, as Ferguson argues in Chapter Two, the Lumumba-Zapata movement (1969-72) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) responded to dominant institutions that defined minorities as subjects that could be integrated, included, and conditioned to achieve upward mobility through participation. This