Pub Date : 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1177/15327086241249170
Madeline Jaye Bass
This (found) poem in three acts creates a conversation between Stuart Hall and Danez Smith, situated in the larger context of the long struggle for Black livingness. First comes the warning, descriptions of the violent now; HERE. Act II is a re-reading or re-writing of the secret codes of slavery and anti-Black violence, a play and exchange between realities and imaginaries, the tensions in Black social life; WHERE. The closing act insists that we dream of something different, a nod to a life Stuart Hall tried to write into existence, a life that his work is still writing; SOMEWHERE. By putting Stuart Hall in posthumous conversation with Danez Smith, I perform the kind of imaginary geographic maneuvering that characterizes Hall’s study, expanding the transatlantic and cross-generational capacity of cultural studies. Such a study, in a world where the African diaspora has been made commodity, is critical to the making of a world where Black(s) live(s) (matter).
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1177/15327086241249148
Anna S. CohenMiller, Nettie Boivin
With a focus on coalition building, inclusive research inquiry, and decolonial practices, this special issue delves into the complexities of forced colonization, emphasizing the importance of grassroots community involvement and knowledge sharing. Through a multidisciplinary lens, the articles within this issue explore various aspects of the conflict, offering innovative approaches to address the immediate and long-term impacts on affected populations. This collection serves as a call to action for scholars and practitioners to collaborate and advocate for justice-based solutions in the face of humanitarian crises.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1177/15327086241246025
Paul William Eaton, Maureen Alice Flint, Laura Smithers
This paper forwards critical inquiry as a tool for hope against authoritarian movements in American public higher education. We utilize a speculative case study approach to interrogate the present moment, with its rising tide of authoritarian fascism in the United States and its manifestations in higher education. Rather than viewing this case (and its analogue) as solvable, we orient to it as a predicament. After introducing the problem of authoritarianism in higher education and presenting a speculative case rendering of it, we shift to explore three critical theories: queer theory, futures studies, and speculative feminisms. We use each of these theories to reorient the predicament the case study presents. To read the case with these theories enacts critical anticipatory practices, offering new questions by which to teach and inquire with critical theory in our present fascistic moment. Such enactments spark hope for imagining participatory democratic futures.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1177/15327086241237999
Fabian Hutmacher
In this autoethnographic text, the author reflects on his grandmother’s life and embeds it into the broader societal and historical developments of her generation. Although the author’s grandmother was not a person of public interest, her life story leads right into the heart of many significant events and turning points of the history of the 20th century in Germany and beyond. Listening to the story of her life can serve as a starting point for writing a counter-history that investigates how the center of historical events looks like when viewed from the periphery.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1177/15327086241236226
Daniel Leyton, Gustavo Sánchez
During 2019, we embarked on a fieldwork based on 18 semi-structured interviews with international scholars in the humanities and social sciences in Chilean universities to explore their experiences with knowledge. Drawing on theories of critique and neoliberalism, we analyzed their ambivalent and unsettling conjunction of attachments to neoliberal and critical knowledge formations. By developing the notion of regime of epistemic subjectification, we emphasized the affective intensities these experiences brought to bear amid the differential weight and interplay of neoliberalism and critique as ethico-epistemic modes of engagement. We argued that the dominant focus on neoliberal knowledge and entrepreneurial subjectivity, albeit intense, expansive, and seemingly omnipresent, must be complicated by exposing its ambivalent affective and somatic force, and recognizing the difference between critical academic products and the lived experience of critique. The latter was constituted in the outsides of the inside of the neoliberal knowledge regime.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1177/15327086241234659
Sarah Hopfinger
I have lived with chronic back pain for over 20 years. My experience has shown me that my relationship to pain can resonate with what it means to relate with wider ecological pain. I reflect on Pain and I—my autobiographical dance performance that explores the rich complexities of chronic pain and asks “what can pain teach us”? I explore what chronic pain experience can reveal about having a process with pain and staying “with the trouble” of our “wounded Earth.” I draw on autoethnographic poetry, performance text, pain theory, and ecological philosophy.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1177/15327086241232722
Eileen Pollard
This article considers and then reconsiders what ChatGPT produces and how it produces it, using the work of a range of critical theorists and authors. In particular, it imagines what different philosophers, thinkers, and writers would say about this most recent technological leap, if they were somehow brought back from the past, into this, our new future. To ventriloquise for them, this article plays fast and loose with the work and styles of Douglas Adams, Virginia Woolf, and Alan Turing, among others, to try to demonstrate what ChatGPT can do, having been potentially “trained” on their work, as well as highlighting the nuances of allusion, subtext, paradox, and contradiction as possibly more human aspects of both writing and reading. Such “play” is followed by a more serious analysis of writing and the suggestion of a “Double Signature Signification” at work in the text produced by ChatGPT, meaning one system of signification for writing the text (schematic) and one for reading it (referent), which overlap perfectly. The article concludes by arguing that it is not the consciousness of ChatGPT that beguiles us, it is the possibility of that consciousness, and what gives rise to that sense of possibility is partly the spectral and haunting nature of dialoguing with it. A dialogue with ChatGPT has all the excitement of a séance: it is uncertain, unknown, yet with its traces of the familiar it is also like talking to the dead.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1177/15327086241234661
Kerry K. Cormier
This found poem combines a notice of a lockdown drill, my reactions, and my children’s interpretations of the event. Drawing on motherscholarship, the poem expresses my concern as a mother for my children as they experience these drills and my dismay as an educator at how such drills are embedded in our culture. Three perspectives in the poem capture how a regular occurrence impacts students, schools, and communities. This work adds to conversations circulating around the culture of school security, the impact of lockdown drills on both students and families, and serves as a means of mothering activism.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1177/15327086241232725
Ardavan Eizadirad
The poem addresses various forms of oppression and discrimination experienced by individuals of Asian heritage in Canada. It is a summary of a report for one of the largest school boards in Canada. The poem humanizes the experiences of the research participants. It reflects the voices of 1,300+ research participants which included Grades 7 to 12 students, educators, and administrators.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1177/15327086231224766
David Rousell, Kelly Hussey-Smith
This article explores moments of pedagogical disruption as children from an urban school encountered an exhibition titled “We Change the World” at the National Gallery of Victoria. In conversation with radical traditions of anti-colonial scholarship, we elaborate children’s disruptions of the gallery as a space of didactic transfer and common ownership of cultural artifacts and knowledges. We then analyze artworks created by children in the wake of their experiences at the gallery, offering alternative propositions for learning to share the world in ways that break with dominant conceptions of museum education, national collections, and the commons.
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