Taking the Biographical approach seriously – what does it mean for the concept of biographicity?

2018

The article starts from the dialectic relationship between “the biographicity of the social” and “the sociality of the biographical” – a relationship especially underlined in the works of Bettina Dausien (e.g. 2006). Starting from here, we have not only to look at “what” is reconstructed here, but also “how” this reconstruction is presented . By this, the complex powerful social processes of “addressing” and “being addressed” come into the center of interest (Rose/Ricken, 2018:). Addressing and the way people let themselves “being addressed” (Althusser) – if and how they let themselves being addressed – this question opens up for processes of subjectivation, as has been conceptualized by Ju…