Cambridge Core - Social Theory - Anticolonialism and Social Thought

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Starting with Du Bois, scholars of race have investigated the role of White ignorance as it perpetuates White supremacy. Today, Charles Mills and scholars continue this inquiry by expanding the impor...

The article advances our understanding of “identifications,” such as race, class, gender, familial, and religious, which are seen as active processes continuously reconstituted through interactions (with objects, technologies, discourses, and bodies) in assemblages. “Identitarian articulations” represent the unique entanglements of these identifications within different assemblages. This concept highlights how identifications interact dynamically within a given assemblage, creating distinct articulations that reflect the particular assemblage’s characteristics. The text emphasizes that assemblages are not static but ongoing processes shaped by desires and interactions among their components (people, objects, technologies, discourses, and emotions). These interactions affect the capacities of the identifications involved. We understand capacities as potential actions stemming from identifications, suggesting that while properties define entities, their capacities reveal what they can do in relation to others. In summary, the article investigates how identifications, through their entanglement, trigger specific identitarian articulations within varying assemblages and the role of capacities in these processes.

‘Issues of morality are ever-present in society, with renewed resonance in current political and cultural debates. This work spans sociology, psychology and social theory to provide a comprehensive ou...

What is social science? This article examines this perennial question by addressing the relation between human biology and social science, exploring whether soc...

Queer Nightlife. Volume 66, Issue 4 of The Sociological Quarterly

The face has had a privileged status in visual media, enrapturing cinematic audiences with its beauty and intensity of emotion. Yet, the study of the face and i...