Book contents
- Agency and Transformation
- Agency and Transformation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Motives, Mediation and Motion
- Chapter 2 Toward a Power-Sensitive Conceptualization of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 3 The Tasks of Reality and Reality As the Task
- Chapter 4 A Relational View of a Future-Orientated Pedagogy
- Chapter 5 From Future Orientation to Future-Making
- Chapter 6 Excluded Lives
- Chapter 7 Children’s and Youth’s Civic Projects and Responsible Agency
- Chapter 8 Decolonizing Agency
- Chapter 9 Unpacking Social Articulation of Agency
- Chapter 10 The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 11 Choice in Childbirth, Agency and Collective Action
- Chapter 12 Transformative Agency by Double Stimulation in an Ecological Agroforestry Association from Brazil
- Chapter 13 Transformative Agency and the Cultivation of Innovations in Frontline Homelessness Work
- Chapter 14 Children’s Agency during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China
- Chapter 15 Agency As the Direction and Reach of Actions
- Index
- References
Chapter 10 - The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency
Mediating Agency from Below in a Post-Apartheid Land Restitution Case
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2023
- Agency and Transformation
- Agency and Transformation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Motives, Mediation and Motion
- Chapter 2 Toward a Power-Sensitive Conceptualization of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 3 The Tasks of Reality and Reality As the Task
- Chapter 4 A Relational View of a Future-Orientated Pedagogy
- Chapter 5 From Future Orientation to Future-Making
- Chapter 6 Excluded Lives
- Chapter 7 Children’s and Youth’s Civic Projects and Responsible Agency
- Chapter 8 Decolonizing Agency
- Chapter 9 Unpacking Social Articulation of Agency
- Chapter 10 The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 11 Choice in Childbirth, Agency and Collective Action
- Chapter 12 Transformative Agency by Double Stimulation in an Ecological Agroforestry Association from Brazil
- Chapter 13 Transformative Agency and the Cultivation of Innovations in Frontline Homelessness Work
- Chapter 14 Children’s Agency during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China
- Chapter 15 Agency As the Direction and Reach of Actions
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter we articulate how transformative agency via double stimulation in cultural-historical activity theory can be a form of emancipatory agency from below among those most historically excluded and marginalised. Generated in a six-year-long formative intervention focussing on African land restitution, we show that the emergence of emancipatory transformative agency involves responsive mediation in which second stimuli, suitable to arising contradictions and conflict of motives, need to be co-developed as the formative intervention process unfolds. Emancipatory transformative agency by double stimulation (ETADS) pathways involve complex and parallel forms of movement over time that are not necessarily linear. The chapter reveals that ETADS pathways emerge as communities take ethical-political ownership of co-directing the emancipatory direction of their own development in the formative intervention process. In the process they challenge deep-seated oppressions of longue durée, transform power relations, build intergenerational solidarity and make decisions that advance the common good.
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- Agency and TransformationMotives, Mediation, and Motion, pp. 230 - 264Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023