Betraying our best intentions: on the need to interrogate how we relate and what it produces

Undurraga, Jacqueline Karen Andrea Serra

doi:10.1080/09518398.2022.2098409

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“…Using performative meta-reflexivity (Serra Undurraga, 2022, 2023a, 2023b), I ask myself: How am I relating to myself and what is that producing? Am I relating to myself by labeling my experience and producing myself as a fixed identity?…”

Section: Beginnings: Our Different Historiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What are we doing with our writing wittingly or unwittingly? It seems crucial to go beyond the explicit content we argue about to consider how we are relating (Serra Undurraga, 2022) to authors/knowledges/traditions.…”

Section: What Issues Do Posts and New Approaches Attend To Carefully?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…She emphasizes how, while not intending to colonize, Deleuze and Guattari further reproduce the violence of colonization. This is an example of how we betray our best intentions and the need to iteratively, reflexively, question ourselves and what we are helping to produce (Serra Undurraga, 2022). However, King (2017) is incredulous about the possibility of posthumanist theory doing this on its own.…”

Section: How Do We Relate To Perspectives That Challenge Coloniality?...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Noticing and declaring is not enough but it is necessary, as you state: your call for positionality and reflexivity—the complex, nuanced reflexivity you write about in depth elsewhere (e.g., Serra Undurraga, 2022)—to be foregrounded is relevant and imperative, here, now. Privilege and its effects are ever-present.…”

Section: Endings: a Way Of Relating To The Challenge Of The Covert Co...mentioning

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Not All That Post, Not All That New: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality

Serra Undurraga,

Wyatt

2024

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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What happens when, as scholars who have habitually been working with posthumanism and the new materialisms, we find ourselves summoned by thinkers who critique the covert coloniality present in these approaches? This work is the result of a year-long project where we set up the task of feeling our way through these critiques, exploring how they change our work and ourselves; and attempting to find a way of relating to the challenge of decoloniality. We use collaborative writing as an approach to delve into our encounters with readings, our own histories, and our ways of relating to the academy and each other. In this work, we start from our differing histories and positionalities—a Chilean woman and a British man; now colleagues and with a history of being a PhD supervisee-supervisor. Then, we grapple with how posthumanism/new materialism has neglected to think about how coloniality is entangled in who the “humans” it speaks to are and how it is further reproducing colonial dynamics of ethnocentric erasure that effectively do not allow it to go beyond the “human.” After considering possibilities of integration, reparation, survival, and refusal, we conclude it is crucial to reflexively acknowledge and work with our concrete positionalities and interests, thereby making our conceptualizations necessarily provincial, limited, and in some ways problematic. Otherwise, we run the risk of engulfing decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, and indigenous theories without any fundamental change, thus furthering coloniality.

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Section: Beginnings: Our Different Historiesmentioning

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Section: What Issues Do Posts and New Approaches Attend To Carefully?mentioning

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Section: How Do We Relate To Perspectives That Challenge Coloniality?...mentioning

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Section: Endings: a Way Of Relating To The Challenge Of The Covert Co...mentioning

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2022

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Onto-Epistemicide and the Research Ethics Board: Toward a Reflexive Ethics

Carozzi,

Horner

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article posits that current priorities of many research ethics boards make them a self-undermining entity in that they perpetuate the erasure of certain knowledges and with them the bodies subjectivities and subjects that live them. Through obscuring the history, geography and onto-epistemology of the assumptions underpinning ethical review these boards reproduce dominant Eurocentric and postpositivist assumptions about what is and isn’t valid or worthy research. Employing Santos’s notion of epistemicide and joining it with Barad’s ethico-onto-epistem-ology we explore how the instruments of “Ethics” act as a mechanism for reinforcing what Massey labels a dominant “geography of productions of knowledge”

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Betraying our best intentions: on the need to interrogate how we relate and what it produces

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Not All That Post, Not All That New: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality

Not All That Post, Not All That New: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality

What are our psychotherapeutic theories and practices producing?

Onto-Epistemicide and the Research Ethics Board: Toward a Reflexive Ethics

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