Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior

Nwakanma, Adaugo Pamela

doi:10.1080/21565503.2022.2086470

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“…This is despite decades of activist theorising advanced through feminist, decolonial, Indigenous, and intersectional perspectives. Through an intersectional lens, Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma (2022), for example, proposes Black feminist theorising to centre on the lived experience of marginalisation. Deva Woodly's study of BLM (2022) puts forward radical Black feminist pragmatism both as the substantive philosophy and the method of inquiry of the movement.…”

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“…Instead of embarking upon the traditional route of normative theorising by studying academic literature, this article develops normative theory inductively, through an interactive conversation with BLM. What I call 'democratic theorizing' (Asenbaum 2022), builds on Indigenous, Black, feminist, and decolonial approaches to activist theorising that centre on marginalised lived experiences (Ackerly et al 2021;Brettschneider 2007;Nwakanma 2022). Democratic theorising appears as particularly suitable for research not on but rather with BLM, as 'the movement insists on theorizing and practicing politics "from the margins to center", attempting to foreground the needs of those most reviled and written off in dominant society' (Woodly 2022: 112).…”

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A Democratic Theory of Life

Asenbaum,

Chenault,

Harris

et al. 2023

Theoria

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In response to its current crisis, scholars call for the revitalisation of democracy through democratic innovations. While they make ample use of life metaphors describing democracy as a living organism, no comprehensive understanding of ‘life’ has been established within democratic theory. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement articulates the urgency of refocusing on life and its meaning through radical democratic practice. This article employs a grounded theory approach, enriched with participatory methods, to develop a radical democratic concept of life in conversation with BLM. It conceptualises life as the existence of a perspective that constantly transforms through its fundamental interconnectedness. Building on this concept, the article outlines four principles of a living democracy that go beyond the revitalisation discourse. A living democracy (1) safeguards the existence of all humans and nonhumans, (2) nurtures a diversity of perspectives, (3) fosters social and planetary connectivity, and (4) enables self- and collective transformation.

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