Some of Us Die: A Black Feminist Researcher's Survival Method for Creatively Refusing Death and Decay in the Neoliberal Academy

Autor/in	Ohito, Esther O.
Titel	Some of Us Die: A Black Feminist Researcher's Survival Method for Creatively Refusing Death and Decay in the Neoliberal Academy
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 34 (2021) 6, S.515-533 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ohito, Esther O.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
DOI	10.1080/09518398.2020.1771463
Schlagwörter	African Americans; Feminism; Reflection; Memory; Grief; Neoliberalism; Humanization; Empathy; Creativity; Females; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Feminismus; Gedächtnis; Trauer; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Humanisierung; Empathie; Kreativität; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	I engage Black feminist thought in this genre-blending text to further theorize "Black feminist memory work," a visual research tool for embodied reflexivity. Using my lived experience surviving bereavement, I demonstrate how Black feminist thought--as anchored to the concepts of creation, improvisation, and memory--shaped the aforementioned self-invented method for humanely undertaking the task of heeding the embodied intensities of grief-borne sorrow and suffering. Sorrow and suffering can be exacerbated by systemic marginalization in dehumanizing settings such as the output-obsessed neoliberal academy. Black feminist memory work extends a long lineage of Black women subversively creating alternatives that defy the body-numbing demands of the death and decay-inducing knowledge production normalized in academia. Alternatives to those repressive and oppressive demands offer qualitative researchers apparatus with which to creatively re-member--that is, to return to the body--in order to increase the heart's capaciousness and capacity for compassion. As qualitative researchers, embodied (re)connection to the essentially compassionate core of our human/e selves is imperative for resisting, recovering from, and surviving the deadening trap/pings of neoliberal academia. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01