ABSTRACT
The aim of the chapter is to further expand on the theoretical positions alluded to in the first chapter. The crosscutting analytical concepts are presented and explained as the repertoire on which the analytical strategies or ‘thinking tools’ are built. The three ‘clusters’ of concepts in the repertoire relate to three fundamental social processes: subjectification (identity-making), belonging (meaning-making and difference) and social change (relations and communication), all directed towards explaining how persons, groups and social change come into being in the world. The analytical concepts are unfolded in relation to a brief story. For the sake of clarity, they appear in an ‘artificial’ fixation; nevertheless, their co-constituted and entangled character is underlined as is the situated gazes of any analysis.
