In Acts of Citizenship, professor Isen discusses how 'citizenship' has been studied in terms of 'status', where ideas of legality, boundaries, rights and obligations are the focus of study, and 'habitus' which are the "ways of thought and conduct that are internalized over a relatively long period of time" (p. 15). Instead of these two ways of studying 'citizenship,' he proposes a new perspective that focuses on "acts," meaning "the moments when subjects constitute themselves as citizens" (p.18). These acts seem to be characterized by breaking with habitus and creating ruptures like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Marion Wallace Dunlop's hunger strike did. Additionally, acts of citizenship seem to be oriented towards justice and involve acting and reacting with others (p. 39). In Acts of Citizen Sociolinguistics, professor Rhymes explains that citizens sociolinguistics acts are ruptures that ma...
Thanks for posting this (Sarah?). In general, I like the attitude about the creative-writing AI: It's a tool that writers can work with--sometimes it has insights, sometimes its lame. In a way, it seems like Google translate: Useful in some ways, but often, you really already need to know both languages you are "translating" to know if it is being helpful.
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