This essentialist understanding of people’s identity can be challenged through revolutionary forms of critical pedagogy which concentrate on identifying “the historical determinations of domination and oppression as part of the struggle to develop concrete practices of counterrepresentation” (MacLaren and Farahmandpur 2001:145). Practices of counterrepresentation can be developed through situational and intersectional understandings of the self (Makkonen 2002:18), which give credence to the fact that “success in a capitalist society is not the result of individual capacities but rather is constrained and enabled by asymmetrical relations of power linked to race, class, gender, and sexual economies of privilege” (MacLaren and Farahmandpur 2001: 146). The intersectionality of the self (ibid), not only points to the necessity of understanding the ways in which different subjectivities intersect but also, of exploring the ways in which these subjectivities are created and established.:65).