Becoming artist,becoming educated,becoming undone: toward a nomadic perspective of college student identity development |
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| Authors: | Kelly Clark/Keefe |
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| Institution: | 1. Leadership and Educational Studies, Reich College of Education, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA.clarkkeefeka@appstate.edu |
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| Abstract: | In this article, I place my ethnographic project among undergraduate university art students and their professor in dialog with Rosi Braidotti’s figuration of the nomadic subject and her reflections on the importance of creating theoretical alternatives for mapping the embedded and embodied social positions that we inhabit. As educational interlocutors, college students must negotiate expectations and categorizations about age-appropriate relations, career paths, and identity passageways, which are always already framed by Western psychological development discourses. Interested in loosening the grip of these closure-seeking and normalizing discursive practices, I argue for a revision of identity development grounded in a nomadic theory of the subject and engage my data through an alternative analytic of arts-informed assemblage in light of Braidotti’s ideas. In so doing, I uphold my feminist commitment to do theory as both critique and creativity, bringing into view poetic-enough writing and imagery as a response to the question how is it to be in the process of becoming? |
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| Keywords: | educational subjectivity art as analysis Braidotti becoming college student identity development |
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