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Developing Mutational Identity Theory: Evolution, Multiplicity Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 11(1) 24 –37 Developing Mutational Identity © 2011 SAGE Publications Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Theory: Evolution, Multiplicity, DOI: 10.1177/1532708610386546 Embodiment, and Agency http://csc.sagepub.com Jason Zingsheim1 Abstract This article extends poststructuralist theories of the self, expanding the discursive possibilities for (re)creating identities. Building on intersectionality, crystallized selves, and identity as assemblage, mutational identity theory works to increase the available discursive resources for conceptualizing identity as kinetic, diffuse, embodied, and contextual. Developed through a cultural analysis of contemporary mutants, mutational identity theory consists of a four-part framework— evolution, multiplicity, embodiment, and agency. Traversing multiple lines of flight and articulation, mutational identity faces the paradox of the self as generative and symptomatic of the radically contextual nature of existence within the (post) modern-day conjuncture. Keywords mutational identity theory, poststructuralism, subjectivity, X-Men, Heroes Identity only becomes an issue when it is in crisis, when studies and rhetoric, I turn to mutants in popular culture as something assumed to be fixed, coherent and stable is dis- a productive and heuristic metaphor for understanding iden- placed by the experience of doubt and uncertainty. tity in our time. From this cultural analysis, I construct a theoretical framework of mutational identity for interrogat- (Mercer, quoted in Du Gay, 1996, p. 1) ing contemporary identity work. The article concludes by exploring the power of mutational identity to overcome the Judging from the ubiquitous presence of identity-related challenges faced by discursive approaches to identity. topics in communication research (i.e., gender, race, sexual- ity, etc.), it is apparent identity continues to be an issue wor- thy of investigation (and thus may be characterized as in Identity Theory crisis based on Mercer’s observation). Jackson (2002) has In this section, after illustrating the difference between sub- gone so far as to declare identity as the “primary crucible” jectivity and identity, I offer a brief sketch of identity as int- of the current century (p. 359). ersectional (Crenshaw, 1991), crystallized (Tracy & Trethewey, Informed by poststructuralism, scholars have begun res- 2005), and assemblage (Puar, 2005). These three theoretical ponding to this crisis of identity by offering increasingly sop- perspectives are productive forays into the “messiness of histicated conceptualizations of identity and the processes identity” (Puar, 2005, p. 128) and represent the recent increase of subjectification. These discursive theories of identity have and variety of transdisciplinary work in identity theory. Before each made contributions to our understanding of identity, looking at these three approaches, it is important to differ- tracing the relationships between our experiences of our entiate between subjectivity and identity. Subjectivities are selves and the language we have to constitute those selves. “the vectors that shape our relation to ourselves” (Rabinow To use Butler’s phrase, identity has been revealed as a “nec- & Rose, 2003, p. xx), the positions we recognize as intelli- essary error” (1993, p. 230), one that is enabled and limited gible and offer as discursively possible within the current by the discursive resources we have at our disposal. This article offers the metaphor of mutants, and its attendant vocab- 1Governors State University ulary, as a pragmatic and pedagogical extension in this post- structuralist project. I begin by recounting recent theories of Corresponding Author: Jason Zingsheim, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences, intersectional, crystalline, and assemblage identities, and Governors State University, One University Parkway, University Park, distilling three challenges that remain for a discursive approach IL 60484 to identity necessitating further theories. Drawing on cultural Email: [email protected] Zingsheim 25 conjuncture. Alternately, identity denotes our relationship is problematic and especially evident in U.S.-based res earch. to ourselves. Identity is where our sense of self is continu- Rather than a return to political intersectionality, Prins rec- ally (re)constructed among, over, and through various (and ommends a shift to “constructionist intersectionality” at the variously shifting) subjectivities. Although our immediate level of the individual, and based on a view of power as focus is at the level of identity, we cannot separate contem- dynamic and relational. Prins advocates viewing identity not porary identity from various subjectivities that work to hail “as a matter of naming but of narration” (p. 281). This move and subjugate individuals. From a Foucauldian perspective, embraces a subversive posture but is overly reactive. Prins’s “the self is both constituting and constituted, motivated by conceptualization largely overlooks structural intersection- self-agency yet produced and created by historical and dis- ality, and social subjectivities, which provide the discursive cursive forces” (Tracy, 2000, p. 114). Consequently, despite resources required to narrate one’s self. In a move to reas- some lines of thinking in posthumanist theory, theories of sert individual agency, a purely constructionist intersection- identity must acknowledge the fragmented nature of the self ality ignores the cultural power formations exerting influence without abandoning the self, its material conditions, or the on, even if not overdetermining, identity. Vakulenko posits desire for coherence (even if temporary and partially illusory; a moderate approach that interrogates both the individual McKerrow, 1993; Zipin, 2004). In other words, it is possi- level of identity construction and the structural level of ble to embrace the instability of identities along with their power relationships, observing, “The inseparability of the “made-up yet necessary character” (Gamson, 2006, p. 249). individual identity from social structural factors is crucial in The term “intersectionality” is often attributed to Crenshaw the contemporary understanding of the term ‘intersectional- (1991) and continues to receive widespread scholarly atten- ity’” (p. 186). tion (Phoenix & Pattynama, 2006). The term articulated an Despite this expanded conceptualization of intersection- established and growing body of feminist work throughout ality, certain limitations still burden the theory and its appli- the 1970s and 1980s by scholars such as Angela Davis, bell cations. The dual-level approach allows for more interplay hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, and Audre Lorde, which sought between categories of subjectivity and individual identity to highlight the interlocking oppressions based on multiple negotiation; however, this framework still relies on naming facets of identity (Collins, 1998; Vakulenko, 2007). Over seemingly stable and discrete categories, such as race, the past 25 years, the concept has been utilized, adapted, gender, sexuality, and so on. These components are viewed and extended in scholarship from a number of fields. For as “separable analytics and can be thus disassembled” (Puar, the purposes of this study, I am primarily concerned with 2005, pp. 127-128). Postcolonial work on hybridity challenges the role of intersectionality as a theory of identity; however, the stability of such subjectivities, as hybridity is “the dialogi- I acknowledge it has been used in widely diverse and con- cal re-inscription of various codes and discourses in a spatio- tradictory ways (McCall, 2005). temporal zone of signification” (Kraidy, 1999, p. 472; Kraidy, In terms of identity, one consistent quandary throughout 2002). Yet scholarship on hybridity is often theorized on intersectional scholarship is the level of analysis. Crenshaw’s the structural level (as an exception, see Ceisel, 2009) and (1991) formulation of the concept consisted of “structural” “is generally understood as relevant to race and ethnicity” and “political” intersectionality. Structural intersectionality (Shugart, 2007, p. 119), neglecting other subjectivities or refers to how “the location of women of color at the inter- their intersections. section of race and gender makes our actual experiences of Further limiting the efficacy of intersectionality and hybrid- domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform qualitatively ity is the tendency to use a “minoritizing view,” treating inter- different from that of white women” (p. 1245). Political int- sectional identities as only of concern to a small fixed ersectionality explains how inequalities often place women grouping of marginalized individuals (Sedgwick, 1990). of color, as members of multiple subordinated groups, within This limitation is not inherent in these theories; indeed, competing political agendas. Political intersectionality has Staunæs (2003) advocates for a majority inclusive version not received much attention during intervening years (Verloo, of intersectionality, and Shugart’s (2007) analysis suggests 2006). Conversely, structural intersectionality has received hybridized ethnicities reveal the instability of both margin- considerable attention (e.g., Collins, 1998). However, inter- alized and dominant ethnicities. Such a “universalizing view” sectionality has also been critiqued for its tendency to treat sees identity negotiation as “an
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