Privileging of unity over difference Flashcards
1
Q
What are the critiques of community?
A
Privileges the ideal unity over difference.
Creates exclusions.
Unrealistic vision
2
Q
How are communities privileging the ideal unity over difference?
A
Community is predicated on one identity: extending the sameness.
Feeling in and out of place
3
Q
How are communities creating exclusions?
A
Imposing sameness produces fragmentation.
Incorporating the other in our sameness.
Excluding the other in our sameness.
4
Q
How are communities creating an unrealistic vision?
A
Multiple identities- cut across communities
Different experiences of community
