Castells divides these defensive community identities into “resistance” and “project” identities: the first are created by those who are “devalued and/or stigmatized by the logic of domination” and who therefore build “trenches of resistance and survival on the basis of principles different from, or opposed to” the dominant values of their society. These need not take what most would see as positive forms, but may be neighbourhood criminal gangs. “Project identity” is built by those seeking to redefine their social position and to change the “overall social structure”; included here is feminism, which “challenge[s] patriarchalism [and] thus the entire structure of production, reproduction, sexuality, and Nation and Identity in the Philippines 339 © Asian Studies Association of Australia 1999. personality on which societies have been historically based”. Castells goes on to say that “in the network society, project identity, if it develops at all, grows from communal resistance”, rather than from the traditional sources of the institutions of civil society such as the trade union/labour movement (Castells 1997, 8–11). In other words, whereas a state’s legitimacy—in both political and cultural terms —has been strengthened in the past by the successful translation of social demands into national laws and mores, the failure to channel new community-identity demands through the institutions of civil society will undermine state claims to hegemony. Direction: explain what the paragraph means.
Castells divides these defensive community identities into “resistance” and
“project” identities: the first are created by those who are “devalued and/or
stigmatized by the logic of domination” and who therefore build “trenches of
resistance and survival on the basis of principles different from, or opposed to”
the dominant values of their society. These need not take what most would see as
positive forms, but may be neighbourhood criminal gangs. “Project identity” is
built by those seeking to redefine their social position and to change the “overall
social structure”; included here is feminism, which “challenge[s] patriarchalism
[and] thus the entire structure of production, reproduction, sexuality, and
Nation and Identity in the Philippines 339
© Asian Studies Association of Australia 1999.
personality on which societies have been historically based”. Castells goes on to
say that “in the network society, project identity, if it develops at all, grows from
communal resistance”, rather than from the traditional sources of the institutions
of civil society such as the trade union/labour movement (Castells 1997, 8–11).
In other words, whereas a state’s legitimacy—in both political and cultural terms
—has been strengthened in the past by the successful translation of social demands
into national laws and mores, the failure to channel new community-identity
demands through the institutions of civil society will undermine state claims to
hegemony.
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explain what the paragraph means.
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