agency

emancipation

experience

is an emancipation narrative whereby uncontainable desire overcomes social control.

Scott makes this argument in the context of foucault's 'repressive hypothesis' 'Resistance and agency are presented as driven by uncontainable desire... emancipation is a teleological story in which desire ultimately overcomes social control and becomes visible' (Joan Scott 1991:778)

is generally presented as a teleological story in which desire ultimately overcomes social control and becomes visible.

is a concept needing to be rejected on account of its emphasis on 'visibility', 'transparency', 'individuality', 'immediacy' and 'authenticity' and its blindness to those processes and structures that give rise to the historicity and possibility of experience, shared or otherwise.

Joan Scott (1991) and David Scott (1992) argue that it is time for social scientist to reject the concept of experience. In grounding research in the rhetoric of experience, which is intimately tied to notions of 'visibility', 'transparency', 'individuality', 'immediacy' and 'authenticity', Scott and Scott hold that social scientist have become increasingly blind to those processes and structures that give rise to the historicity and possibility of experience, shared or otherwise. (Throop 2003:220-1)

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