The Race for Theory

Christian, Barbara

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“…I complicate these readings by thinking about the ways that there might be authoritative readings of the narrative and its form, within the liberal discourse of freedom, but that we need to also think about the ways that other political claims and commitments are embedded as tricks (see Gates, 1988) within that language, that produce what Lowe (2015) offers up as ‘failure’. In this sense, our reading practices follow what Bakare-Yusuf (2000) describes as patterning, which is a common practice within the black intellectual tradition; it is reminiscent of what Peterson (2016) refers to as culture; as what Zora Neale Hurston (1942/1992) describes as research; as the way that Barbara Christian (1987) writes about theory as something rooted in everyday practices.…”

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Knowing from loss

Mupotsa

2019

The Sociological Review

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In South Africa, student calls for free quality decolonized education have been coincident with demands for the transformation of the canons, curricula and pedagogies of their disciplines. At the height of the protests assembled around #feesmustfall since 2014, some students at the University of the Witwatersrand formed their own reading groups, attempting to develop their own curricula, but also presenting their departments with memorandums demanding that these disciplines decolonize the universals they base their assumptions upon to better reflect their experiences and contexts. These confrontations were located around at least three conceptual terrains: decoloniality, intersectionality and afropessimism. In this article, I am specifically interested in how an investment in these three conceptual terrains is located in what Fred Moten describes as the paraontological relationship between blacks and blackness. That is, that across those terrains the conditions by which ‘experience’ as a representation of experience (produced, reproduced and retold by those with the capacity to know or to represent knowledge) in epistemological processes is articulated through forms of abstraction and universalism that make/made blackness a particular site of intensity for engagement. The temporal breaks implied in my use of past/present speaks to the moment/s of heightened protests, but also an ongoinginess of epistemic struggle at universities. I speak from my location as a scholar and teacher in a ‘non-discipline’, which possesses its own canonical baggage.

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Mupotsa

2019

The Sociological Review

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“… 1. A similar lament is made by Barbara Christian (2010) in her famous essay “Race for Theory” where she warns against the deluge of poststructuralist theory which could dilute the liberating narratives of Black writers like her and others. …”

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The vernacular as method for memory and time: A philological and cultural exploration of Filipino concepts for Memory Studies

Martin

2020

Memory Studies

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This article proposes the vernacular as a discursive methodological entry point to Memory Studies. A bottom-up approach, this article theorizes memory and time starting from a close-reading of signifiers from the Filipino language, thus allowing its culture to be considered in its own terms first. The first part of the essay examines a set of terms that show equivalences with Western conceptions of memory. The second set of signifiers—( ma)tandà(an), agam, limot/limót and panahon—reveal that they are actually more illustrative of the current trend of movement in Memory Studies; and that they translate more accurately both the non-linear and linear dimensions of time. The third part of the article considers cultural concepts namely, kapwa, utang-na-loob, bayanihan, Manilaner, and desaparesidos, which challenge and enrich Trauma Studies’ Freudian and Holocaust-based history. With a perspective of memory and time from the Global South, this study also demonstrates how one can share space and time with (the wrath of) nature in a society of impunity while emphasising the importance of spirituality, humour, group culture, and hospitality. The existence of the Manilaners and the desaparecidos also shifts the perspective and experience of the Holocaust and the disappeared to a Filipino context.

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“…Given the enormous amount of variability we witnessed in textbooks' determination of which works and scholars were central to the field, we believe that our study, like many others, suggests that citation cannot simply be seen as an objective measure of the quality of the work cited. One's ability to be cited is linked to a variety of factors, including institutional location, 34 whether one's work is seen as bridging different fields of inquiry, whether one's work is seen as "theoretical" (a determination which in and of itself is shaped by gender, as well as ethnicity and nationality; see Christian 1987, O'Rand 1989, Lutz 1995, and also, perhaps, sheer innovativeness. Our group splits on whether frequent citation can ever be seen as a useful measure of the quality of a work; we agree, however, that citation may, in some complex way, indicate the impact of a given work on a community of practitioners (see Hamermesh, Johnson & Weisbrod 1982 for an analysis of citation that conflates objective worth and impact).…”

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Gender, publication and citation in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology: The construction of a scholarly canon

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Feminist scholars have begun to ask how existing conceptual schemes and organizational structures in academic disciplines have excluded women and feminist ideas, and to provide suggestions for transformation. One strand of this work has been the exploration of how canons of thought are constructed in such fields as economics, sociology, and sociocultural anthropology. This article begins such an investigation for sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology by reviewing how gender correlates with publication and citation over a 35-year period (1965–2000) in five key journals, and in 16 textbooks published in the 1990s. It describes some marked differences in the publication of works by women and on gender in the five journals, as well as some significant differences in the degree to which men and women cite the work of women. It also considers how the rate of publication of articles on sex, gender, and women is correlated with publication of female authors. It concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study for changing institutional practices in our field.

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The Race for Theory

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The vernacular as method for memory and time: A philological and cultural exploration of Filipino concepts for Memory Studies

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