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Book: Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity

Chapter: 2. Response to Steven Ramey: The Constitutive Discourse of Description

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.23800

Blurb:

Descriptions, as Steven Ramey convincingly argued in his chapter,
are never neutral, they are always selective, contingent, and
invested with interests; yet, even in his attempt to demonstrate
the constructive nature of discourses via the use of descriptions
Ramey, unavoidably, engages in descriptions as well. So, in this
chapter I want to press him further by asking: when are descriptions
mere descriptions and when are they constitutive of a discourse
themselves?

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