Being the Alice of academia: lessons from the Red Queen hypothesis

Negatu, Seble G; Arreguin, Montserrat Carolina; Jurado, Kellie Ann; Vazquez, Christine

doi:10.1093/femspd/ftac034

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“…When the conditions that people are facing in their communities are oppressive and unjust (e.g. for people who are #BlackInTheIvory (Negatu et al. , 2022)), can we really suggest adapting to these conditions as a reasonable solution?…”

Section: Learning and Building Theory Through Allegorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Disasters “Through the looking glass”

Von Meding,

Brisotto,

Mehdipour

et al. 2023

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PurposeThis paper will challenge normative disaster studies and practice by arguing that thriving communities require the pursuit of imperfection and solidarity. The authors use Lewis Carroll’s Looking-Glass World as a lens to critique both how disasters are understood, and how disaster researchers and practitioners operate, within a climate-change affected world where cultural, political and historical constructs are constantly shifting.Design/methodology/approachThe paper will undertake an analysis of both disasters and disaster studies, using this unique (and satirical) critical lens, looking at the unfolding of systemic mistakes, oppressions and mal-development that are revealed in contemporary disasters, that were once the critiques of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian-era England. It shows how disaster “resilience-building” can actually be a mechanism for continuing the status quo, and how persistent colonizing institutions and systems can be in reproducing themselves.FindingsThe authors argue the liberation of disaster studies as a process of challenging the doctrines and paradigms that have been created and given meaning by those in power – particularly white, Western/Northern/Eurocentric, male power. They suggest how researchers and practitioners might view disasters – and their own praxis – Through the Looking Glass in an effort to better understand the power, domination and violence of the status quo, but also as a means of creating a vision for something better, arguing that liberation is possible through community-led action grounded in love, solidarity, difference and interconnection.Originality/valueThe paper uses a novel conceptual lens as a way to challenge researchers and practitioners to avoid the utopic trap that wishes to achieve homogenized perfection and instead find an “imperfect” and complex adaptation that moves toward justice. Considering this idea through satire and literary criticism will lend support to empirical research that makes a similar case using data.

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Section: Learning and Building Theory Through Allegorymentioning

confidence: 99%