![]() This thesis develops a systematic analysis of texts with arguments on political performance of representation and agency. It explores discourses of difference and identity that are engaged with constructions and re-construction of the notions of Self and Other. ![]() This project contributes to the emerging scholarship on the notion of emancipation and empowerment in educational theory. This thesis investigates the ways in which concepts of binary opposition are elaborated in some of the key contemporary theories on difference and identity. In drawing out theoretical continuity and change across varied temporal and spatial locations-Fanon/Sartre and the French-Algerian encounter Gilroy/Miles and British urban unrest-the article explores how the Left imaginary has lost its theoretical integrity, especially in its Foucauldian gaze, and is currently unable to provide a robust vision, beyond self-other interplay, of emancipatory change. We must clear an analytical space through which a renewed subject of liberation can be founded. ![]() While the “cultural turn” promised to give voice against structuralist silencing, the critical subject of emancipation has been defaced, eradicated such that we currently have no theoretical place from where to build an emancipatory project. This article examines conceptual obstacles to emancipation which have emerged historically within Left theory on both sides of the Atlantic, concerned primarily with “class versus race” debates spanning from the post-war Hegelian moment to the post-structural present.
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