Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues

Tlostanova, Madina; Thapar‐Björkert, Suruchi; Koobak, Redi

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“…Perhaps, rather than address the question why Western feminist theory does not embrace Southern feminist theory, we need to ask why people insist that feminist theory is by default Western? Cultivating a critical distance from the story of feminism as intrinsically Western and claiming space for a dialogic praxis demands developing new analytical tools to disrupt dominant logics and imaginaries in knowledge production (see Tlostanova, Thapar-Björkert, and Koobak 2016).…”

Section: Habitus and Entitlementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Epistemic modalities of racialised knowledge production in the Swedish academy

Thapar‐Björkert

Farahani

2019

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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The central aim of this article is to examine the impact of racialization processes within the Swedish academic community in order to understand what kinds of knowledge productions and knowing subject positions are rendered (im)possible in everyday academic interactions. Through autoethnography as an alternative methodological entry point, we analyse our embodied racialised experiences of navigating through historically white universities within a geo-political context framed through a supposedly "colour blind" and "post-racial society". Our analytical reasoning is presented through several steps. First, we discuss how academic habitus and affiliations maintained in various scientific forums is informed through established, racialised norms and if/whose knowledge is marginalized, devalued, or/and is included due to the reductive representation. Second, we discuss how an uncultivated sense of epistemic entitlement, within different academic settings and communities, constructs indisputable knowing subjects and generates (un)earned (un)comfortable zones. Third, we argue how managing the existing accent ceiling becomes a mode for navigating the norms of whiteness.

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Section: Habitus and Entitlementsmentioning

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Epistemic modalities of racialised knowledge production in the Swedish academy

Thapar‐Björkert

Farahani

2019

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…My starting point for this map-making exercise that attempts to chart the contours of local feminisms in Estonia is the observation that along the changing localglobal axis, the specificity of Eastern European positioning and the postsocialist condition in particular tends to disappear within transnational feminist theorizing (Koobak 2013;Koobak and Marling 2014a;Tlostanova, Thapar-Björkert, and Koobak 2016). In my experience, thinking about Eastern Europe is incredibly challenging.…”

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“…How do we maintain a transversal dialogue between and across the North and the South, the East and the West, and how do we make them hear each other and find their intersections? As I have elaborated elsewhere with my colleagues Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert (2016), one option is to make our own body-politics and geo-politics of knowledge transparent as one of the tools of successful decolonizing of gender, of thinking and of being. It means starting precisely with one's own positioning -I am where I think (Mignolo 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, in Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory, Clare Hemmings offers an in depth critique of the past forty years of such storied accounts and describes her purpose as to investigate 'how feminists tell stories about Western feminist theory's recent past, why these stories matter, and what we can do to transform them' (2011,1). Among others, challenging the tendency to reproduce 'Western feminist' stories as yardsticks against which all feminist stories and imaginaries are measured has become a crucial question for many feminists writing from or about postsocialist feminist perspectives (Suchland 2011;Tlostanova 2012;Koobak and Marling 2014a;Tlostanova, Thapar-Björkert, and Koobak 2016). The notion of 'Western feminism' is problematic, yet it continues to be repeated in literature.…”

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Narrating feminisms: what do we talk about when we talk about feminism in Estonia?

Koobak

2018

Gender, Place & Culture

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Drawing on interviews with women who identify as feminists in Estonia, this article explores how the stories we tell about feminism and its past influence the kind of theoretical and political work we are able to do. Zooming in on the story of the emergence of feminisms in postsocialist Estonia which has not been thoroughly researched yet, this article calls upon feminists in Estonia to reflect critically on how they conceptualize feminisms, while at the same time building a framework to think about local feminism within transnational feminist context. Starting from stories of how women became feminists in Estonia since the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, I reflect on the gaps, chance encounters and tensions that my fieldwork revealed to narrate feminism differently, to bring forth new aspects of feminism in this context. In particular, I focus on two moments: the common imaginary of 'real' feminism as Western mass movement and the tensions between the local context and 'Western feminism' . I complicate the narrative in the article through including interludes in between the main text to highlight how the incidents that happened outside and around the interviews shape my story of feminism in Estonia.

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“…Kritika směřuje především k feministickým teoretičkám ze zemí "centra" (Blagojevic 2005;De Haan, Daskalova, Loutfi 2006;Gal, Kligman 2000;Loutfi 2009). Epistemologické dopady těchto nerovností, které jsou zakoušeny a uplatňovány na různých úrov-ních, byly také podrobeny studiu (Phipps, 2016;Tlostanova, Thapar-Björkert, Koobak, 2016), včetně otázek týkajících se ne/možnosti spolupráce z důvodu geopolitické odlišnosti. To všechno je důležité pro zvážení možnosti feministické pedagogiky jako situovaného procesu, a to především v kontextu, který zdůrazňuje údajnou odlišnost a těží z ní.…”

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Obchodování s odlišností: dvě pedagogické příležitosti na křižovatce neoliberální univerzity a geopolitiky

Nyklová

2017

GaV

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Abstract:This article looks at the effects the neoliberal university has on feminist pedagogy when it is practised in a programme that stresses geopolitical differences. The material for the study comes from my experience as a teacher of a gender studies class for a US study abroad programme based in Prague, Czech Republic. The richly researched paradoxes of doing feminist pedagogy in the neoliberal university assume fi rm contours when the geopolitical location of both those 'teaching' and those 'taught' becomes the focus and indeed the 'commodity' to be sold. In my article, I focus on my situation as a teacher in an increasingly precarious educational environment in the Czech Republic, exacerbated by the specifi c framing of the US-based programme and its economic-moral rationality. I refl ect on the ethical discontents inadvertently produced by the teaching experience and related commodifi cation of 'difference'. I argue that the geopolitical context of that commodifi cation is crucial for understanding the local forms and impact of the neoliberal university. The contested standing of gender studies in the Czech Republic, which has been shown to stem in part from the post-1989 developments, intersects with the reform of the Czech science system. By exploring how this setting affects the micro-level of class dynamics and lesson content I show that there is a need to study the repercussions of the neoliberal university as geopolitically located.Keywords: transnational feminist teaching, commodifi cation of education, feminist pedagogy, neoliberal university Nyklová, Blanka. 2017. "Obchodování s odlišností: dvě pedagogické příležitosti na křižovatce neoliberální univerzity a geopolitiky." Gender a výzkum /

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Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues

Cited by 58 publications

References 20 publications

Epistemic modalities of racialised knowledge production in the Swedish academy

Epistemic modalities of racialised knowledge production in the Swedish academy

Narrating feminisms: what do we talk about when we talk about feminism in Estonia?

Obchodování s odlišností: dvě pedagogické příležitosti na křižovatce neoliberální univerzity a geopolitiky

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