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Re: AUT: Re: Cognitive Mapping

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<P>Hey Harald and all,</P>
<P>I feel that all this is beside the mainpoint that I am trying to make.&nbsp; Regardless of what "activists" choose to call themselves, their actions&nbsp;presuppose a particular&nbsp;conception of how the field of "opposition" has been laid out.&nbsp; In order to act, groups must, in part, anticipate how other groups are going to act.&nbsp; By&nbsp;engaging in a cognitive mapping project I seek to explore how these schemas are constructed, how different people attach feelings of belonging to particular groups, and&nbsp;feelings of opposition to other groups.&nbsp; Likewise, from an alternative conception of the "cognitive map" (which remains for me rather vague) I could seek to trace the material relations that lead to the production of particular documents, newspapers, conferences, etc.&nbsp; In doing so, I may trace the central nodes and peripheries of the movement, uncovering latent power relations.&nbsp; Further, I hope that this sort of approach may allow "activists" to critically engage the language that they are using, and actively define terms such as "diversity" which remain hollow receptacles to be filled with the power relations between different groups.&nbsp; You mention that an emphasis must be placed on "communication".&nbsp; I simply hope that maybe by critically engaging "activists" in a different sort of way new avenues for communication may be opened up.</P>
<P>chris&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</P></DIV>
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