Materials relevant to research on identity and agency:



Dorothy C. Holland

August 7, 2007

Activities relevant to research on identity and agency:

Publications:

Holland, D. 2010. Symbolic worlds in time/spaces of practice: Identities and transformations. In Symbolic Transformations: The Mind in Movement through Culture and Society, Brady Wagoner (ed.), 269-283. London: Routledge

Holland, Dorothy and Jean Lave 2009. Social practice theory and the historical production of persons. Actio: An International Journal of Human Activity Theory No. 2:1-15.

Holland, D., and D. Skinner. 2008. Literacies of distinction: (Dis)empowerment in social movements. Journal of Development Studies, Volume 44, No. 6 (July): 849-862. Reprinted in 2009 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development K. Basu, B. Maddox and A. Robinson-Pant, eds. New York: Routledge.

Holland, D., G. Fox, and V. Daro. 2008. Social movements and collective identity: A decentered, dialogic view. Anthropological Quarterly, 81 (1): 83-113.

Holland, D. 2007. Local matters: The time/space of social identification and learning. Essay review of Learning identity: The joint emergence of social identification and academic learning, by Stanton Wortham. Invited Essay Review. Human Development 50(2-3):165-170.

Holland, D., and W. Lachicotte. 2007. Vygotsky, Mead and the new sociocultural studies of identity. In The Cambridge companion to Vygotsky, ed. H. Daniels, M. Cole and J. Wertsch, 101-135. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Holland, D. 2004. Self and power in the world of romance: Extending sociogenic theories. In Changing conceptions of psychological life, ed. C. Lightfoot, C. Lalonde, and M. Chandler, 149-182. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Holland, D. and K. Leander, eds. 2004. Positioning and subjectivity: Narcotaffikers, Taiwanese brides, angry loggers, school troublemakers. Special issue. Ethos 32(2).

Bartlett, L., and D. Holland. 2002. Theorizing the space of literacy practice. Ways of Knowing 2(1):10-22. (To be reprinted in Literacy: A handbook, Routledge, 2003.)

Holland, D. and J. Lave, eds. 2001. History in person: Enduring struggles, contentious practice, intimate identities. Albuquerque: School of American Research Press.

Holland, D. and D. Skinner. 2001. From women's suffering to women's politics: Re-imagining women's problems after Nepal's 1990 Pro-Democracy Movement, In History in person: Enduring struggles, contentious practice, intimate identities, ed. D. Holland and J. Lave, 93-133. Albuquerque: School of American Research Press.

Skinner, D., J. Valsiner, and D. Holland. 2001. Discerning the dialogical self: A theoretical and methodological examination of a Nepali adolescent’s narrative. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research 2(3). (Available at )

Holland, D., W. Lachicotte, D. Skinner, and C. Cain. 1998. Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press.

Skinner, D., A. Pach III, and D. Holland, eds. 1998. Selves in time and place: Identities, experience, and history in Nepal. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Holland, D. 1997. Selves as cultured: As told by an anthropologist who lacks a soul. In Self and identity: Fundamental issues, ed. R. Ashmore and L. Jussim, 193-221. London: Oxford University Press.

Holland, D. and D. Skinner. 1996. The co-development of identity, agency and lived worlds. In Comparisons in human development: Understanding time and context, ed. J. Tudge, M. Shanahan, and J. Valsiner, 193-221. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Levinson, B., D. Foley, and D. Holland, eds. 1996. The cultural production of the educated person: Critical ethnographies of schooling and local practice. Buffalo, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Levinson, B. and D. Holland. 1996. The cultural production of the educated person: An introduction. In The cultural production of the educated person: Critical ethnographies of schooling and local practice, ed. B. Levinson, D. Foley and D. Holland, 1-54. Buffalo, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Skinner, D. and D. Holland. 1996. Schools as a heteroglossic site for the cultural production of persons in and beyond a hill community in Nepal. In The cultural production of the educated person: Critical ethnographies of schooling and local practice, ed. B. Levinson, D. Foley, and D. Holland, 273-299. Buffalo, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Holland, D., and M. Cole. 1995. Between discourse and schema: Reformulating a cultural-historical approach to culture and mind. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 26(4):1-16.

Holland, D., and D. Skinner. 1995. Contested ritual, contested femininities: (Re)Forming self and society in a Nepali women's festival. American Ethnologist 22(2):279-305.

Holland, D., and A. Kipnis. 1994. Metaphors for embarrassment and stories of exposure: The not-so-egocentric self in American culture. Ethos 22(3):316-342.

Peacock, J. and D. Holland. 1993. The narrated self. Ethos 21(4):367-383.

Holland, D. and M. Eisenhart. 1990. Educated in romance: Women, achievement, and college culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Recent conferences, lectures and papers:

2011 Changing food morals and identities: A preliminary exploration.  Invited lecture,  Bath University.   June 16, 2011.

2010 Schools, figured worlds, and spaces of contentious practice. Invited lecture, School of Education, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. April 27th, 2010.

2008 D. Holland and J. Lave. Social practice theory and the historical production of persons. Keynote address, First Asian Activity Theory Conference. Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, March 9th.

2008 D. Holland and J. Lave. Social practice theory and the historical production of persons. Keynote address, The 4th International Symposium, New Learning Challenges. Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, March 6th.

2006 Literacies of distinction: (Dis)empowerment in social movements. Plenary lecture at the conference, Literacy, Identity and Social Change. Literacy and Development Program, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., April 26.

2004 Using social practice theory to study identity formation and social change. Keynote lecture, Schools of Education and Business, Departments of Anthropology and Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, November 4-5.

2003 People-in-activity: A cultural historical approach to identity, agency and social change. Keynote lecture, American Educational Research Association, CH-SIG, Chicago, April 22.

2003 Co-Organizer (with Kevin Leander) of panel, Positioning and Subjectivity. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meeting, San Diego, Calif., April.

2002 Holland, D., T. Satterfield, and W. Lachicotte. Personifications of the future: A social practice theory of subjectivity and the making of alternate worlds. Paper presented at an SPA and AES invited session, How Should We Understand Human Subjectivities? A Dialogue, organized by R. Desjarlais, J. Mageo, and T. O'Nell,. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 22.

2002 Figured worlds. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Group, University of Lancaster, U.K., May 28.

2001 Theorizing the space of literacy practice. Keynote address, Literacy and Numeracy Conference. University of Leeds, U.K., July.

2000 On the shoulders of Bakhtin and Vygotsky: Towards A cultural-historical, social practice theory of identity and social movements. Plenary address, Third Conference for Sociocultural Research, Campinas, Brazil, July.

2000 Sociogenic theories of self and the critical disruption: Romantic identities and relations of power. Plenary address, annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Montreal, June.

1997 From desire to degradation: The double-edged, double talk of romance in the workplace. Invited lecture, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., March.

1996 Tij and the Lakhe: Spaces of authoring gendered identities in Nepal. Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., May 6.

1996 Contested rituals, contested femininities: (Re)forming self and society in a Nepali women's festival. Invited lecture, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., February 26.

1995 Co-organizer (with Jean Lave) of SAR Advanced Seminar, History in Person: Endemic Conflicts and Enduring Identities. School of American Research, Santa Fe, N.Mex., October 8-12.

1995 Holland, D., and D. Skinner. From women's suffering to women's politics: Re-imagining women's problems after Nepal's 1990 pro-democracy movement. Paper presented at the Advanced Seminar, History in Person: Endemic Conflicts and Enduring Identities. School of American Research, Santa Fe, N.Mex., October 8-12.

1995 Selves as cultured: As told by an anthropologist who lacks a soul. Paper presented at the Rutgers Symposium on Self and Social Identity, Inaugural Symposium, Self and Identity: Fundamental Issues, organized by R. Ashmore and L. Jussim. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., April 22nd. Also read as a general lecture at the University of Copenhagen, May 18.

Grants and projects:

1995 Wenner-Gren Foundation. History in Person: The Mutual Constitution of Endemic Struggles and Enduring Identities. Partial funding for conference at the School of American Research, $7,000.

1994 School of American Research. Conference, History in Person: The Mutual Constitution of Endemic Struggles and Enduring Identities. The grant brought 10 scholars to Santa Fe for a week long conference and publishes papers produced for the conference (with Jean Lave).

1991 National Science Foundation. Ritual and Women's Critical Commentary: The (Re)production of Gender in Nepal (with Debra Skinner), $51,107.

1980-1981 National Research Service Award for Individual Fellows. National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Training Grant. Americans' Cultural Representations of Self and Other. Sponsoring Institution: Duke University.

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