Writing difference differently

Fisher, Karen; Williams, Miriam; FitzHerbert, Stephen; Instone, Lesley; Duffy, Michelle; Wright, Sarah; Suchet‐Pearson, Sandie; Lloyd, Kate; Burarrwanga, Laklak; Ganambarr, Ritjilili; Ganambarr-Stubbs, Merrkiyawuy; Ganambarr, Banbapuy; Maymuru, Djawundil; Country, Bawaka

doi:10.1111/nzg.12077

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“…Using extracts from our chats and a conversational structure adds to a growing tradition in which critical writing is undertaken collectively and through dialogue, 16 broadening the scope of academic writing. 17 As human geographers, we position this alongside calls to pluralise 'ways of framing and interfering with the world'. 18 The collective writing process enacts our view that feminism is work best done collectively, critically and creatively, always a work in progress, lively with contradictions 19 (footnote to this philosophy of feminism).…”

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Awesome women and bad feminists: the role of online social networks and peer support for feminist practice in academia

Bayfield

Colebrooke

Pitt

et al. 2019

cultural geographies

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In her book, ‘Bad Feminist’, Roxane Gay claims this label shamelessly, embracing the contradictory aspects of enacting feminist practice while fundamentally being ‘flawed human[s]’. This article tells a story inspired by and enacting Roxane Gay’s approach in academia, written by five cis-gendered women geographers. It is the story of a proactive, everyday feminist initiative to survive as women in an academic precariat fuelled by globalised, neoliberalised higher education. We reflect on what it means to be (bad) feminists in that context, and how we respond as academics. We share experiences of an online space used to support one another through post-doctoral life, a simple message thread, which has established an important role in our development as academics and feminists. This article, written through online collaboration, mirrors and enacts processes fundamental to our online network, demonstrating the significance and potential of safe digital spaces for peer support. Excerpts from the chat reflect critically on struggles and solutions we have co-developed. Through this, we celebrate and validate a strategy we know that we and others like us find invaluable for our wellbeing and survival. Finally, we reflect on the inherent limitations of exclusive online networks as tools for feminist resistance.

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Section: Writing As 5bmentioning

confidence: 99%

Awesome women and bad feminists: the role of online social networks and peer support for feminist practice in academia

Bayfield

Colebrooke

Pitt

et al. 2019

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“…It will be useful to explicate briefly the assemblage constructed in an antique box for storing and displaying seeds and the symbolic slave garden. These were performative research, intended "not only to describe phenomena but also to enact possibilities" by attending to the ontological implications of doing and not just writing (Fisher et al 2015). I wanted both the assemblage and garden to communicate differently from how a text might and to invite coproduction afterwards of the ideas and symbolic meanings they initially inscribe.…”

Section: Performative Research and Visualized Knowledge: Cabinets Gamentioning

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Smartness from Below: Variations on Technology and Creativity in Contemporary Kinshasa

Pype¹

2017

What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa?

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of course, D. A. Masolo, whose critique was that Ngugi, Odera-Oruka, and Vansina did not go far enough and left open-after negritude, after Pan-Africanism, after African socialism, and even after the "sage philosophy" that Odera-Oruka actively promoted-the search for new archives and modes of African philosophy. I approached these scholars as a learner, and I was looking to apprentice in the African way, in which elders impart knowledge to the young at close quarters.The debt I owe to Mamadou Diouf for helping me understand the context of the question of the scientific and the technological in Africa from a combined philosophical, historical, contemporary, diagnostic, and prognostic perspective is, quite simply, unpayable. After my textual and face-to-face interactions with the above-mentioned scholars, it became quite clear that the issue at stake for the African reader of technology, the reader of technology in Africa, and better yet African technology, is not just the behavior of science, technology, and innovation but the intellectual work of making things and their strategic deployment. Can one see Africans as intellectuals thinking about and making technology based on intellect?This question was an acknowledgement of what I had witnessed in everyday interactions with people in different parts of Africa, but even more so during my own childhood in Zimbabwe. In people's mobilities I saw an archive, a statement, a critique, and an authoring of thought into reality through practice, operationalized through the movement of legs, hands, mouth, and other body functions. I wanted to locate the subject of conversation upstream of practice, to understand the intellection that drove it. Some micro-movements of and within the body were involuntary; the concern was with the voluntary actions, delegated by the mind-at-work.STS had prepared me to understand one version of science and technology, to recognize it when I saw it. This was a vital skill-but it also turned out to be quite blunt for the nature of knowledge I was looking at. Conventional (Western) STS is good at identifying banal forms of science and technology but is severely limited in non-Western contexts, in which things scientific and things technological are not readily recognizable.Here was the problem in the specific case of Africa. The project of addressing the meanings of science, technology, and innovation from Africa had to be philosophically grounded, because to my understanding the colonial ordering of knowledge had cut up African knowledge, knowledge production, and structures and modes of knowing into tiny pieces. What had once been a whole entity known as a composite was now scattered into specialist disciplines like philosophy, theology/religious studies, African languages and literature, history, economic history, anthropology, and so on. The philosophy I remember being taught in the University of Zimbabwe in the early 1990s was about Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Marx, and so on. Where were the Africans?xii Preface xiv PrefaceAll in all, t...

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“…The first two were the SKCAN project (see Fisher et al . forthcoming) and the residential workshops of the ‘Constructive Conversations’ project, from which we developed understandings of experimentation and its situatedness. The third was the participation of others of our group in the annual Foreign Policy School, University of Otago, where we encountered senior government official James Palmer (Director of Strategy at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry), who stimulated our interest in provenance .…”

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Assembling biological economies: Region‐shaping initiatives in making and retaining value

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Abstract:The Biological Economies research project has involved a five-year exploration of new rural value relations in two New Zealand regions. In this paper, we explore what the project has taught us about the need to deploy new conceptual and methodological tools to perform regional development differently. We draw on examples of experimentation in value creation, our own methodological experimentation, and ideas of assemblage to argue that new knowledge categories of capability, platforms, land resourcefulness, experimentation and economic rent open up the potential for a new methodology for stimulating regional economic change that we label 'enactive research'.

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Writing difference differently

Cited by 24 publications

References 25 publications

Awesome women and bad feminists: the role of online social networks and peer support for feminist practice in academia

Awesome women and bad feminists: the role of online social networks and peer support for feminist practice in academia

Smartness from Below: Variations on Technology and Creativity in Contemporary Kinshasa

Assembling biological economies: Region‐shaping initiatives in making and retaining value

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