The Brown Babe's Burden

Llanera, Tracy

doi:10.1111/hypa.12463

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“…What is most frustrating is that much of what we have said here is not new. Women have been arguing for more valuable (and intersectional) inclusion for many years (Haslanger 2008;Wylie 2011;Waithe 2015;Tyson 2018;Witt 2006;Llanera 2019). A central issue, then, is the lack of attention paid to the important voices of these women.…”

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Women in Philosophy: What is to be Done?

Buxton

Whiting

2023

EuJAP

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It is clear that philosophy has a “woman problem”. Despite the recent acceptance of this fact, it is less clear what ought to be done about it. In this paper, we argue that philosophy as a discipline is uniquely well-positioned to think through the marginalisation suffered by women and other minorities. We therefore interrogate two values that already undergird conversations about inclusion— representation and intersectionality—in order to think about the path ahead. We argue that, once we have done so, it becomes clear that the slow pace of improvement over the last few decades is unacceptable and more radical steps need to be taken. First, we outline the current state of women in philosophy focusing on three areas: levels of employment, publishing, and sexual harassment. Then we turn to representation and intersectionality respectively. We conclude by arguing that many women and people of colour have been arguing for a more radically diverse philosophy for many years. What we are facing is a lack of ambition on the one hand and problem of attention on the other.

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Women in Philosophy: What is to be Done?

Buxton

Whiting

2023

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“…Consider the following example, which might be read as a failure to genuinely listen to someone's story: Tracy Llanera's (2019) account of being a brown woman in philosophy. She recounts how she entered a philosophy doctoral program at an Australian university, self-assured in her abilities as a philosopher based on her experience of teaching and studying in her home country of the Philippines.…”

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“…The first part of our discussion examines how storytelling can challenge oppressive forces and promote solidarity within communities, but also how power dynamics can undermine the political potential of storytelling by producing loneliness, which is a risk when storytellers are misunderstood or ignored. To motivate the significance of solidarity and the dangers of loneliness, we engage extensively with an exchange between the poets and friends Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich (Lorde 1984;Nguyen 2024), and expand on the aforementioned reflection from Llanera (2019). 1 To mitigate against loneliness and strengthen solidaristic bonds, in the second part of the paper we offer an account of solidaristic listening.…”

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Solidaristic Listening

Jones,

Fulfer

2024

Hypatia

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Storytelling in solidaristic communities can foster agency and challenge oppression. However, power imbalances among community members can undermine that potential by contributing to the production of loneliness, where a person loses their sense of self and their sense of belonging within the solidaristic community. To prevent loneliness and to protect the liberatory potential of storytelling, we consider how what we call solidaristic listening might be supported. We first consider, but ultimately reject, empathy as a central feature of solidaristic listening. Despite its popularity in feminist philosophy, empathy is often unable to maintain the relational distance needed between conversation partners to appreciate their differences. Instead, we suggest an ongoing embodied, relational approach to foster solidaristic listening. We draw on three philosophical ideas to motivate our account: visiting the perspectives of others (Arendt 1992), visiting as a reciprocal exchange that requires multiple trips (Simpson 2017), and solidarity as traveling together (Medina 2013).

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For Us, By Us

Mukandi

2021

Theoria

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This article examines the Australian ‘Continental Philosophy’ community through the lens of the Azanian philosophical tradition. Specifically, it interrogates the series of conversations around race and methodology that arose from the 2017 Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) conference. At the heart of these were questions of place, race, Indigeneity, and the very meaning of ‘Continental Philosophy’ in Australia. The pages that follow pursue those questions, grappling with the relationship between the articulation of disciplinary bounds and the exercise of colonial power. Having struggled with the political and existential cost of participation in the epistemic community that is the ASCP, I argue for disengagement and the exploration of alternative intellectual communities. This is ultimately a call to intellectual work grounded on ethical relations rather than on the furtherance of the status quo. It is a call to take seriously the claim, ‘the land is ours’.

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The Brown Babe's Burden

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Women in Philosophy: What is to be Done?

Women in Philosophy: What is to be Done?

Solidaristic Listening

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