The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency

Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; Thifhulufhelwi, Reuben; Chikunda, Charles; Mponwana, Maletje

Title: The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency
Creator: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
Creator: Thifhulufhelwi, Reuben
Creator: Chikunda, Charles
Creator: Mponwana, Maletje
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2023
Date: 2023
Type: text
Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436175
Identifier: vital:73232
Identifier: ISBN 9781009153799
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009153799
Description: Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) research has established an impressive body of scholarship that advances social understanding of human agency in the transformation of society, much of which is captured in contributions to this volume (cf. Hopwood (Chapter 15); Sannino (Chapter 2); Stetsenko (Chapter 3); Bal and Bird Bear (Chapter 8)). The main tenets of this work, building on the historical legacy of Vygotsky and Marx, affirm that humans are not passive recipients of external stimuli or influences but are active co-creators of the world (s) they inhabit. They are capable of using and producing cultural tools to take power over their own volitional action (s)(cf. Sannino, 2015, Chap-ter 2 of this volume; Hopwood and Gottshalk, 2017). Vygotsky’s major legacy in coming to understand transformative agency is that the cultural tools produced and used as mediational means are critical in the emergence of transformative agency (Sannino, 2015, 2020, Chapter 2 of this volume; Stetsenko, 2019; Hopwood, Chapter 15 of this volume) and thus in the transformation of human activity. As shown by Sannino (2015, 2020), such tools offer stimulus for volitional action that can break paralysis, especially when conflicts of motives are experienced.
Format: 34 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Relation: Lotz-Sisitka, H, Thifhulufhelwi, R, Chikunda, C and Mponwana, M. 2023. The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency. Agency and Transformation: Motives, Mediation, and Motion, p.230-264
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