Scholar-Activism: A Twice Told Tale

Suzuki, Daiyu; Mayorga, Edwin

doi:10.1080/15210960.2013.867405

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“…The slivers of our experiences shared throughout this piece illustrate the subtle and slippery ways racism saturates our lives and workplaces. We attempt to remember and resist them, despite the challenges of doing so from within (Suzuki and Mayorga, 2014). The ubiquitous racist structures cannot be fully seen nor addressed alone, so we navigate the borderlands in search of each other.…”

Section: Navigating the Borderlands Of Scholar-activismmentioning

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The business school is racist: Act up!

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In this essay, we call upon our fellow scholars of colour to recognise the ways Business Schools are structured by white supremacy and actively de-value our knowledge and experiences. Alongside this recognition, collective action led by scholars of colour is needed to build intergenerational support systems which will be key to dismantling racialised power structures as they appear locally and transnationally. White scholars are invited to listen and learn from this call.

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Section: Navigating the Borderlands Of Scholar-activismmentioning

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“…LTGJ has provided us with a sense of connection in the neoliberal university and place for scholar‐activism, a space where we felt supported in questioning and challenging structural oppressions. Our experiences underscore the importance of locating scholar‐activist homes in university communities, dedicated to including as many people as possible (Suzuki & Mayorga, 2014).…”

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“…Constructing a life as a scholar‐activist acknowledges the vexed convergences between politically and socially diverse communities and institutions we are part of (Carrillo‐Rowe, 2012). This article contributes to the call in the literature to recognize institutional educational settings as important sites of struggle (Chatterton et al., 2010) and to make academia a welcoming place for all (Suzuki & Mayorga, 2014), including for the most marginalized communities (Cohen & Jackson, 2016).…”

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“…But still, she felt that she could not delay pursuing activism until achieving tenure or some sense of job security. Students involved in Local to Global Justice (LTGJ), like Denisse, felt a sense of urgency in pursuing activism, believing that, as Suzuki and Mayorga (2014) note, “as educator‐scholar‐activists, we cannot stand idly while the world around us is being destroyed” (p. 19). Around the same time the College of Education was being disestablished, construction workers, mostly Latino and undocumented, were working on a new campus building and were demanding just labor conditions.…”

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Tempered radicalism and intersectionality: Scholar‐activism in the neoliberal university

Richter

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Journal of Social Issues

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Using a collaborative critical personal narrative methodology grounded in intersectionality, we interrogated tensions in identifying ourselves as tempered radicals and scholar-activists who were involved in a local universitycommunity activist organization. We assert the value of informal activist spaces within the university and identify issues related to the lack of recognition of scholaractivism as legitimate scholarship, including the paradox of universities as colonizing and liberatory spaces for community engagement and activism. Our themes highlight how mentorship affects scholar-activism and how activism transforms and disrupts the neoliberal university. Yet, activism is rendered invisible, making homeplaces for scholar-activism critical for students, faculty, staff, and the community to address structural inequalities within and outside of the university. We conclude with recommendations to improve mentorship for scholar-activists, to revise tenure and promotion policies to include scholar-activism, and to recognize spaces within the academy that honor scholar-activism as a critical form of praxis informed by intersectionality. We employed a collaborative critical personal narrative methodology to interrogate the structural and systematic inequalities we experience as scholar-activists (Collins & Bilge, 2016; Crenshaw, 1989; Moraga & Anzaldúa, 1981). Using intersectionality, we locate spaces and moments where power dynamics around class, race, and gender are necessary to transform higher

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“…The literature seems not to be sufficiently aware of the nuanced perspectives on state funding within the CSO world, nor of the irony that authors' capacity to develop their critique (also a form of pro-democracy academic activism) is itself enabled by state funding through the public university system, and therefore vulnerable to the same critique. As I explored the literature further, I discovered that academic analyses of public funding for CSO-activism have developed in relative isolation from a sizable literature on the implications of state support for academic-activism (Butler & Mulgan, 2013;Calhoun, 2009;Croteau, 2005;Flood, Martin & Dreher, 2013;Suzuki & Mayorga, 2014), as well as from relevant debates within the CSO sphere. This strikes me as a missed opportunity, as the two spheres of activism encounter similar challenges with regard to their dependency on state financial support and -I would argue -share potential to learn from each other.…”

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State-Funded Activism: Lessons from Civil Society Organizations in Ireland

Visser

2016

SSJ

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Civil society organizations (CSOs) in Ireland receive significant state funding and institutional support according to the logic that they are important contributors to democratic governance, with the effect that the CSO sector has expanded and become more embedded in formal decision-making processes over the past several decades. At the same time, dependency on government funding exposes CSOs to three important challenges: to stay true to activist mandates in the face of pressure from state funders to focus on service provision; to maintain accountability to constituents while also satisfying the vertically oriented accountability requirements of the state; and to nurture collaboration among CSOs in a context of competition for state funding. University-based activists, who are also reliant on (increasingly scarce) government funding, face similar challenges, and therefore should pay more attention to debates regarding state funding in the CSO sphere. By working together to overcome common challenges associated with state funding, activists in both spheres can more effectively contribute to progressive social change.

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Scholar-Activism: A Twice Told Tale

Cited by 24 publications

References 4 publications

The business school is racist: Act up!

The business school is racist: Act up!

Tempered radicalism and intersectionality: Scholar‐activism in the neoliberal university

State-Funded Activism: Lessons from Civil Society Organizations in Ireland

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