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Beyond IdentityAuthor(s) Rogers Brubaker and Freder.docxaryan532920
Beyond "Identity"
Author(s): Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper
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Beyond "identity"
ROGERS BRUBAKER and FREDERICK COOPER
University of California, Los Angeles; University of Michigan
"The worst thing one can do with words," wrote George Orwell a half
a century ago, "is to surrender to them." If language is to be "an
instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing
thought," he continued, one must "let the meaning choose the word,
and not the other way about."' The argument of this article is that
the social sciences and humanities have surrendered to the word
"identity"; that this has both intellectual and political costs; and that
we can do better. "Identity," we argue, tends to mean too much (when
understood in a strong sense), too little (when understood in a weak
sense), or nothing at all (because of its sheer ambiguity). We take stock
of the conceptual and theoretical work "identity" is supposed to do and
suggest that this work might be done better by other terms, less ambig-
uous, and unencumbered by the reifying connotations of "identity."
We argue that the prevailing constructivist stance on identity - the
attempt to "soften" the term, to acquit it of the charge of "essentialism"
by stipulating that identities are constructed, fluid, and multiple -
leaves us without a rationale for talking about "identities" at all and
ill-equipped to examine the "hard" dynamics and essentialist claims of
contemporary identity politics. "Soft" constructivism allows putative
"identities" to proliferate. But as they proliferate, the term loses its
analytical purchase. If identity is everywhere, it is nowhere. If it is
fluid, how can we understand the ways in which self-understandings
may harden, congeal, and crystallize? If it is constructed, how can we
understand the sometimes coercive force of external identifications? If
it ...
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2. Contents
1) Societal context
2) Professional governance
3) Submerged covert tradition
4) Bouncers in the night-time economy
5) Reflections from my covert passing as a
bouncer
6) A revival in covert research
7) Creative ethnography
8) Some conclusions
References
3. 1) Societal context
Contradictory themes of
protectionism (Data Protection/Human Rights
Acts)
Voyeurism (public appetite, popular culture
passing)-voyeur nation (Calvert, 2000)
Populist investigative journalism (expose work
e.g. The Secret Policeman, Daly, 2003; The
Undercover Soldier, Sharp, 2008, Gomorrah-
Saviano, 2006)
Practitioner work (untroubled surveillance)
Normalization and saturation of cyber lurking
and surveillance in modern social media
4. 2) Professional governance
Ethical bureaucratization and
regimentation (reviews, committees,
audit trials)
Professional Governance requirement
for social research to be more
accountable and transparent
Doctrine of informed consent (hyper
sensitivity, research mantra)
5. Professional codes, associations and obligations
Charters from various bodies-BSA (British
Sociological Association), ISA (International
Sociological Association), SRA (Social Research
Association), ASA (Association of Social
Anthropologists), ASA (American Sociological
Association), British Society of Criminology (BSC)
Frowning up covert research/last resort methodology
as a form of deliberate deception and ethical
transgression causing harm (inflated risk and danger
discourse)
Paradoxical fear and fascination with covert research
7. 4) Bouncers in the night-time economy
Expanding night-time economy and leisure
capitalism-moral panics about binge drinking/
recreational drug use
Stigmatized occupation
Precarity of the work
Casualised workforce
Dangerous work (extreme)
Attempts to regulate, professionalise and unionize
bouncers (Security Industry Authority, established in
2003)
Links to gangsterism and criminality
Intensified surveillance of the NTE
8. Situated door order
Folk devil stereotype and urban mythology
Fictive kinship
Hyper-masculinity and interpersonal violence
as a performative doing
Collective bouncer code
Private policing
Bouncing as dirty work (Hughes, 1956) and
emotional labour (Hochschild, 1983)
Dramaturgical bouncer self (Goffman,
1961,66)
10. Ethnographic features and conditions
Embodied autoethnography, biographical
familiarity (Layered account, Rambo, 1995)
Lived experience (Geertz, 1973) of doing
doors embedded in the natural setting
(dual identity)
Longitudinal immersion
Relatively small field-Hobbs et al, 2003;
Monaghan, 2002; Winlow, 2001)
Interaction rituals (Goffman, 1967), bodily
capital (Wacquant, 1995) and hardness
passport (Patrick, 1973) as fieldwork
mimicry strategies
11. Nomadic Ethnography
Six-month covert ethnography in Manchester as a
working bouncer
Governance of the nte (Leisure capitalism)
Biographical mediation
Demonized group (exotica)
Multiple door sites (2 clubs, 3 pubs and 5 café
bars)-engineered exit strategies
Manufactured door career
Nomadic style was part of ethnographic risk
management (sub-aqua ethnography)
12. Situated ethics and the blurred bouncer self
Occasioned character of ethical self regulation
and ethical moments in the field (‘turning the
tape off’ syndrome, being recognized, guilty
knowledge, publication censorship, shelved
data)
Problem of going native but commitment to
realism (faithfulness-Bittner, 1973)
Covert research not a panacea-obviate
artificiality but gain sustained problems of
instigation
Covert role as deeply artful and craft like
13. A form of edgework: Voluntary risk-taking (Lyng,
1990, 2005)
A type of narrative reconstruction (Granter et al, 2015)
The management of the post-fieldwork self (‘getting
back into character’ syndrome)
Liminality of the setting (sensitive legal tightrope-’The
researcher as hooligan: where participant observation
means breaking the law’, Pearson, 2009)
14. Authenticity, multiplicity and liminality
‘I am a survivor of child sex abuse. I am
also a sociologist, a wife, a friend, and
many other identities one might imagine
for an adult, white female. The
boundaries of these identities converge,
blur, and separate as I write’ (Carol
Rambo Ronai, 1995: 395-396).
‘Multiple reflections of childhood sex abuse: An argument for a
layered account’, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 23 (4):
395-426.
15. ‘In my attempt at artful sociology, emotional
sociology and sociological introspection, my
goal was to help the reader connect my
experience with their own. By discussing lived
emotional experience, readers are confronted
with the things they have in common with the
author and they are less likely to dismiss the
situation of others are freakish and not their
concern’ (Carol Rambo Ronai, 1997, 427-
428).
‘ On loving and hating my mentally retarded mother’, Mental
Retardation, 35 (6): 417-432.
19. The Guardian, Education section, ‘I don’t want to get no bullet
over no bullshit’, 6th December 2000, Dave Ward
‘A 17 stone sociologist skilled in ethnography and kick boxing’.
Times Higher Education, ‘Drugs, guns and fights-all in a night’s
work’, 23rd February 2001, Adam James
‘Some might also recall a short, stocky pony-tailed bouncer called
called David Calvey. But this was Calvey's night job. By day he
was a sociology lecturer’
Televised interview with Nick Higham at the BA Festival of
Science, Norwich, BBC News 24, 5th September 2006
20. 6) A revival in covert research
Rise in various forms of auto
ethnography as well as more mixed
methods research
Popularity of investigative journalism
(different analytic game)
Virtual, online and cyber ethnography
(lurking)
21. 7) Creative ethnography
Creative ethnography as part of a
toolkit to analayse complexity in lived
realities (narrative and narcissistic
challenges)
Heartfelt, passionate, opportunistic
and curious inquiries (not enterprise
or policy driven) (Game and Metcalfe,
1996; Ellis, 1999)
22. Creative ethnography as part of a wider
ethnographic imagination and sensibility
(Atkinson, 2015)
Resist exotica and zoo keeping (Gouldner,
1968) and textual hypochondria
Recognition and appreciation of loss,
failure and mistake (The Lost
Ethnographies: Methodological insights
from projects that never were-Smith and
Delamont, 2019)
23. ‘The attempt to approximate some sort of
precision in the study of human conduct is not
unlike the task of swatting flies with a
hammer. Apart from the fact that one must
make the tenuous assumption that the fly will
remain still, one must be willing to settle for a
low batting average while facing the prospect
of leaving the room in a shambles when the
game is done.’
(Harold Garfinkel, 2005:99, Seeing Sociologically;
The Routine Grounds of Social Action)
24. Howard Becker in Telling About Society
is ‘convinced that there is no best way to
tell a story’ (2007: 285)
(-an appeal to disciplined hybridity not
anything goes relativity?)
25. ‘There’s nothing in the world we should
trade for what we do have: the bent to
sustain in regard to all elements of
social life a spirit of unfettered,
unsponsored inquiry’ (Erving Goffman,
1983, 17, The Interaction Order,
American Sociological Presidential
Address 1982).
26. 8) Some conclusions
Ethical dilemmas are complex landscapes
that are managed and not resolved
Codes and guidelines are abstract
idealizations (disconnect to field realities)
Ethnography as immersive, emotional and
experiential doings
27. Emergent and messy nature of ethical
dilemmas and ambiguities
Move away from a heroic picture of the
covert researcher
Move away from extreme ‘love/hate’
reactions to it into appropriate use
Are the social sciences missing a trick?
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