@article{Stetsenko_2013, title={The Challenge of Individuality in Cultural- Historical Activity Theory: “Collectividual” Dialectics from a Transformative Activist Stance}, volume={14}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/9791}, DOI={10.7146/ocps.v14i2.9791}, abstractNote={In addressing the persistent challenge of fully integrating individual dimensions and human<br />subjectivity within the cultural-historical activity theory, this paper suggests several steps to revise<br />its core onto-epistemology in an expansive approach termed the transformative activist stance.<br />This approach outlines the subtle dialectics of individual and collective planes of human praxis<br />whereby each individual is shaped by collective history and collaborative practices while at the<br />same time shaping and real-izing them through contributing to their collective, dynamic<br />materiality in moving beyond the status quo. In capitalizing on people always transcending what<br />exists in ‘the here and now,’ in a non-adaptive fashion, based in a commitment and vision to how<br />the world “ought to be,” the individual subjectivity is reclaimed as itself a fully social, embodied,<br />material-discursive process. Individual subjectivity and agency gain status through contributing to<br />changes in “collectividual” practices as the primary onto-epistemology of a unitary realm that is<br />individual and social/collective at the same time.}, number={2}, journal={Outlines. Critical Practice Studies}, author={Stetsenko, Anna}, year={2013}, month={Oct.}, pages={07–28} }