Can any one guide or inform some research piece discussing that all definitions especially those engaging with social phenomenon suffer from exclusion or inclusion, which make such illustrations discrete if not arbitrary.
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I am not sure about my understanding of your question. But maybe you will find starting points in that special issue: Article Editorial: Inclusion / Exclusion. Systems Theoretical and Po...
Muhammad not sure exactly what it is you are looking for but here a piece (based on a book I can also send you) dealing with social exclusion from a European but also majority world perspective.
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Hello. I am not sure on the specifics of the question, as there appera to be well, none, since it reads, "... all definitions .....suffer from exclusion or inclusion,..." I woukd ask for clarification on the question, because, logically speaking, exclusiion and inclusion are the very essence and purpose of definitins, in order that we undertande each other when we speak or discuss. Thus, we define, men/women, persons/animals and many "definitns" withing these categories. The "...exclusion or inclusion..." are already there and we humans/ people, "define" in ordfer to make clear that we are referring/speakng of this (inclusion) and not that (exclusion. WIthouth definitions, how can wec communicate?
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For the USA, "Blackness in the White Imagination" and Killing Rage by bell hooks is a good place to start. For an international perspective, Orientalism by Edward Said presents a clear postcolonial perspective that is better elucidated in Culture and Imperialism. Jose Limon's Dancing With the Devil provides a deep Marxist interpretation of his ethnography that engages Mexican American issues of inclusion/exclusion from a Native perspective. For a nonnative perspective see Doug Foley's Learning Capitalist Culture Deep in the Heart of Tejas. Martha Menchaca's Recovering History Constructing Race put this in in a historical and legalistic perspective. Foley and Menchaca contribute to Richard Valencia's Evolution of Deficit Thinking. For a more general poststructural approach Pierre Bourdieu's Logic of Practice is the most detailed but his book Distinction is more clear and accessible. There is also Howard Omi and Michael Winant's Racial Formations work.
Thank you all. Primarily, I am critiquing a few definitions of strategic communication (SC) which for various reasons do not correspond to empirical expression of this term such as when seen in operations by Daesh or other similar terrorist organizations. Consequently, I am arguing for an eclectic conceptualization of SC and the premise for this assertion is reflected in my following sentence : “ construction of a social phenomenon is inherently prone to inclusion or exclusion owing to ontological predisposition of the originator, therefore no definition can possibly thoroughly capture the essence of human activity." After writing it, I could not however locate a suitable reference, and hence asked question on this forum. regards
I really like the article by Uzman Shakir called "Dangers of a New Dogma...Inclusion or else!" in this book: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/social-inclusion
It speaks directly to your thesis, and demonstrates how the term or concept of "inclusion" is a falsehood. A really short and easy read as well.
How does ontological predisposition preclude definition unless someone is taking a theological perspective? A postmodern approach to critique used this ploy as a strawman in the eighties to invalidate postcolonial and feminist critiques.
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