Talk:Reappropriation
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[edit] Merging with Re-claiming
I dont think this should be merged with re-claiming. Reppropriation is a sociological term used to describe (among other things) how subcultures and mainstream cultures appropriate and reappropriate cultural artefacts. It has an element of subversion involved in it. I will come back and try to add more to this article when I can find my notes on it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JenLouise (talk • contribs) 7 July 2006.
- Are you perhaps thinking of cultural appropriation and/or cultural diffusion? I still think that the material that is currently here belongs together with the material currently at reclaiming. We may need some disambiguation pages and/or hat text. - Jmabel | Talk 06:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Perhaps the terms are used differently in different subjects but in the sociology study that I have done at uni appropriation and reappropriation occur when sub-cultures appropriate something from mainstream culture and thereby subvert it, and reappropriation is when the mainstream culture takes the subverted practice and reintroduces it to mainstream culture. Therefore it doesn't really fit with cultural appropriation because it is appropriated as a form of resistance. Perhaps this page should not be merged with reclaiming but the content moved there and reappropriation defined as above with a little thing at the top saying "if you're after (whatever) see Reclaiming". JenLouise 06:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
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- On the Reclaiming page it says To reclaim something is the political process and strategy consisting in re-evaluating and re-appropriating terms so therefore reclaiming is a small part of reappropriation, which as identified on the Reappropriation page is Linguistic Reappropriation. Therefore I think the best idea is to rewrite the introduction of Reappropriation to include all the various things that can be reappropriated and to merge Reclaiming into the Linguistic Reappropriation section with a redirect there. I don't think it has anything at all to do with Cultural appropriation or Cultural diffusion in the way they have been defined and treated on their pages. JenLouise 01:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
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No-one has put forward an argument for merging the two pages since the tag was put on, so I think that the merging tag can be taken off. Unless someone disagrees, I'll go ahead and do it. I'm also happy to implement my suggestion above. If you feel strongly about this please respond soon. JenLouise 22:45, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
