The Controversy of the Twin Pandemics
Feminist Pedagogies and the Urgency of Revolutionary Praxis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v20i5.1935Keywords:
Anti-oppression, controversy, feminist pedagogies, reflexivity, Black feminismAbstract
This intervention reflects on the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and anti-Black racism in conversation with feminist pedagogies and controversy. To do so, I weave together ideas from the papers in this themed section on Controversy and Anti-Oppression Pedagogies as well as scholarship on feminist pedagogies and practices to argue for revolutionary feminist disruption. I highlight a pedagogy of discomfort and discomfort as a framework for Black feminist and anti-oppression pedagogical engagements and spaces. I argue that doing so yields liberatory possibilities for our classrooms.
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Ahmed S (2012) On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham: Duke University Press
Alexander M J and Mohanty C T (1997) Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. New York: Routledge
Barr J, Beljaars D, Cahuas M, Hawthorne C, Ramírez M, Rosenberg R, and Smiles D (2020) AAG Specialty Group Chairs’ response letter to AAG diversity initiatives. https://blackgeographies.org/2020/09/15/aag-specialty-group-chairs-response-letter-to-aag-diversity-initiatives/ (last accessed 9 January 2021)
Black Geographies Specialty Group (2020) Black Geographies Specialty Group’s call for transformative racial justice. https://blackgeographies.org/2020/06/10/black-geographies-specialty-groups-call-for-transformative-racial-justice/ (last accessed 9 January 2021)
Boler M (2004) Feeling Power: Emotions and Education. New York: Routledge.
Boler M and Zembylas M (2016) Interview with Megan Boler: from "feminist politics of emotions" to the "affective turn", in: Zembylas M and Schutz, P A (eds) Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion and Education (pp. 17-30). Cham: Springer International Publishing
Browne K (2005) Placing the personal in pedagogy: Engaged pedagogy in "feminist" geographical teaching. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 29:339–354
Dowler L (2002) The uncomfortable classroom: Incorporating feminist pedagogy and political practice into world regional geography. Journal of Geography 101:68–72
Eaves L E (2020a) Fear of an other geography. Dialogues in Human Geography 10(1):34–36
Eaves L E (2020b) Interanimating Black sexualities and the geography classroom. Journal of
Geography in Higher Education 44(2):217–229
Eaves L E (2016) Black geographies reading list. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive (last accessed 9 January 2021).
Farhadi B (2019) A psychoanalytic inquiry into reflexivity: An encounter with knowledge. Emotion, Space and Society 31:112–119
Feng J, Brasher J, Westenhoff L, Fritz B, Islam F, Davis H, Crain J, Cooper J, Yessler R, Goldman W, Blentlinger L, Shen M, Callais N, Smith L, Alumbaugh J, Dein J, Bottone E, and Durow D (2020) Letter to Black colleagues and friends. Unpublished email, Knoxville, TN, USA: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Gökarıksel B, Hawkins M, Neubert C, and Smith S (2020) Introduction. In Gökarıksel B, Hawkins M, Neubert C, and Smith S (eds) Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures (pp 1-24). Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.
hooks b (1994) Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge
James-Gallaway A D and Turner F F L (2021) Mobilizing betrayal: Black feminist pedagogy and Black women graduate student educators. Gender, Work & Organization 28:24–38
Kobayashi A and Peake L (2008) Racism out of place: Thoughts on whiteness and an antiracist geography in the new millennium. In Moss P and Falconer Al-Hindi K (eds) Feminisms in Geography: Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges (pp 155-170). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Langham G and Kaplan D (2020) AAG statement on racism and the death of George Floyd. http://www.aag.org/galleries/membership files/AAG_Statement_on_Racism_and_the_Death_of_George_Floyd.pdf (last accessed 30 January 2021)
Love B L (2019) We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Boston: Beacon Press
McKittrick K (2021) Dear Science and Other Stories. Durham: Duke University Press
Nast H J (1999) "Sex", "race" and multiculturalism: Critical consumption and the politics of course evaluations. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 23(1):102-115
National Science Foundation (2021) Racial Equity in STEM Education (EHR Racial Equity) https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505910&org=DRL&from=home (last accessed 21 April 21 2021)
Oberhauser A (2008) Feminist pedagogy: Diversity and praxis in a university context. In Moss P and Falconer Al-Hindi K (eds) Feminisms in Geography: Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges (pp 215-220). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Plowman D (2020) His name is George Floyd. https://chancellor.utk.edu/2020/05/30/his-name-is-george-floyd/ (last accessed January 30, 2021)
Quilty A (2017) Queer provocations! Exploring queerly informed disruptive pedagogies within feminist community-higher-education landscapes. Irish Educational Studies 36(1):107–123
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2021-11-22
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Eaves, L. E. (2021). The Controversy of the Twin Pandemics: Feminist Pedagogies and the Urgency of Revolutionary Praxis. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 20(5), 562–568. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v20i5.1935
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