IDENTITY AND SOCIAL POSITIONING: A DEBATE
I placed headings to indicate the ideas being discussed. Questions of Identity as Social Unifier "In an environment were everyone has one singular thing in common: IDENTITY" -joan.Osa Oviawe Hmmmm...leads to some interesting questions: Is identity monolithic,singular or plural? Is it constant or shifting? What may be meant by commonality of identity among social groups?On what indices are these commonalities based on? A memorable work that comes to mind on this is the conversation between Densu and Damfo in Ayi Kwei Armah's novel The Healers on the constitution of the self through multiple identities, mediated through social conditioning and more individualistic drives, and the need to be selective about what aspects of the self one should identify with. Identity Understood in Relation to Conceptions of the Self Almost certainly, the answer to those questions above will depend on the conception of the nature of the self that forms the framework in terms o