Words failed us: Repairing sociology’s haunted past means finding new language to write about the social world

Rexer, Gala

doi:10.51428/tsr.ehra2822

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“…How does form shape our research? How can we find new ways of writing for refusal and repair (Rexer, 2022)? And I go back to care, and theory as a place of healing, and think about the ways that form can help us in these endeavours.…”

Section: Note 6: Scavenging As An Eroticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Tuck and Yang (2014, p. 254) write, ‘Academia is very much about the generation and swapping of stories, and there are some stories that the academy has not yet proven itself responsible enough to hear’. In an article interrogating sociological writing, Gala Rexer (2022), thinking with Savannah Shange, thinks of the shape that ‘a sociology of refusal and repair’ would take. She asks, ‘instead of trying to make lives “knowable,” how does our writing disrupt the structures that make lives unliveable?…”

Section: Note 5: Scavenging As Repairmentioning

confidence: 99%

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in defence of what’s there: notes on scavenging as methodology

Niang

2024

Feminist Review

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Presented as a series of notes, this article explores scavenging as a methodology of refusal, anchored in black studies, black feminist thought, queer studies and indigenous studies, and thinks of the possibilities it offers for rethinking feminist research. Engaging with the works of Katherine McKittrick and of Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang in particular, I unravel scavenging and interrogate the possibilities it offers for feminist, queer and decolonial scholarship. I argue that scavenging cultivates wonder; resists extractive logics pervasive in academic research; refuses disciplinarity; demands attention; offers possibilities for repair; channels feeling, desire and the erotic; and, finally, encourages us to think about form in academic writing. Throughout, scavenging is therefore sketched out as a methodology for worldmaking.

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Section: Note 6: Scavenging As An Eroticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Note 5: Scavenging As Repairmentioning

confidence: 99%