From Performative Hierarchization Towards Transformative Hierarchization
摘要
Certain societies stress performative hierarchization for the purpose of controlling and ordering the societies into competing or complementing categories of people and constituencies. Then excluded people resist and mobilize countering such top-down framing with the purpose of diversifying and transforming the imposed structure. Among their acts and strategies include social and political processes of transformative hierarchization. These are structures that provide spaces for inclusion, co-existence, and co-development. Building on Chitta Rangan Das’s methodology and practice, John Clammer proposes efforts of “dialogical liberation” in bridging the gap between performative and transformative hierarchization. Empirically experiences from the renown associational traditional Danish folk high schools; efforts of resisting exclusion by transnational communities of migrant and refugee groups, suggest alternative platforms of practical extension and longing for horizontal social solidarity.