and here we go...

woobwoo!! i wrote a paragraph. It's the intro to the intro and I am so proud of myself im gonna post it. It's not fabulous but it's a start...

"What happens when a baby is born into the world, into a family who subscribe to a faith system and do so in a way that ensures the child knows more about Christianity than any other discourse, any other way of knowing the world, it's histories and geographies? Through the discourses the child partakes in, negotiates with and navigates her way through, what does the child grow up believing and knowing? What texts are influential in her subjectification and in her own understanding of herself? Are her beliefs a process purely of social construction, of engaging with discourses or is there something more? The child is me, born and raised in a very committed Christian family and now, 22 years later attempting to engage with ideas about my subjectification and asking questions of the discourses that have shaped, and continue to shape my personhood.

In order to attempt to answer this question I intend to autobiogrphically describe my life in three stages; my childhood, my teenage years and the present whilst engaging critically with theories surrounding social constructionsim, discourse and subjectivity. For each stage I will look at some key texts and discourses that I believe have shaped my subjectivity and I will attempt to understand these aswell as raising unanswered questions that I have regarding theories of social constructionism and truth."