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| − | Making people powerless by making it harder for them to act or for their actions to be noticed. Includes leaving people without representation, or forcing them to be represented by individuals or organizations that they didn't chose at all or were coerced to chose. | + | Making people powerless by making it harder for them to act or for their actions to be noticed. Includes leaving people without representation, or forcing them to be represented by individuals or organizations that they didn't chose at all or were coerced to chose. (In Swedish: agensförnekande) |
| − | + | ==Interactions== | |
| − | + | This [[facet of categorism]] is an expression of: [[prejudice]] and [[discrimination]].<br> | |
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| + | It is likely to intersect with facets such as: | ||
| + | * ''[[Voice Appropriation]]'': Denying human beings their own voices by speaking for them without their consent. | ||
| + | * ''[[Kyriarchy]]'': Dominant groups preventing people in subordinate groups from standing up for themselves. Such as mainstream society silencing the people in an ethnic minority. Or the mainstream within the minority group silencing women or GSM (gender and sexual minorities) people within the ethnic group. | ||
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| + | As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as: | ||
| + | * ''[[Categorist Co-definitions]]'': For when Denial of Agency is combined with Voice Appropriation. Those who speak for others are constructed as being the same group. | ||
| + | * ''[[Categorist Distinctions]]'': For when Denial of Agency is ''not'' combined with Voice Appropriation. | ||
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| + | Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include: | ||
| + | * ''[[]]'': | ||
Revision as of 13:34, 13 September 2014
Making people powerless by making it harder for them to act or for their actions to be noticed. Includes leaving people without representation, or forcing them to be represented by individuals or organizations that they didn't chose at all or were coerced to chose. (In Swedish: agensförnekande)
Interactions
This facet of categorism is an expression of: prejudice and discrimination.
It is likely to intersect with facets such as:
- Voice Appropriation: Denying human beings their own voices by speaking for them without their consent.
- Kyriarchy: Dominant groups preventing people in subordinate groups from standing up for themselves. Such as mainstream society silencing the people in an ethnic minority. Or the mainstream within the minority group silencing women or GSM (gender and sexual minorities) people within the ethnic group.
As well as with abstractions such as:
- Categorist Co-definitions: For when Denial of Agency is combined with Voice Appropriation. Those who speak for others are constructed as being the same group.
- Categorist Distinctions: For when Denial of Agency is not combined with Voice Appropriation.
Examples of applying this facet to a particular foci of categorism can include:
- [[]]:
