Critique as delight, theory as praxis, mucking in

Title: Critique as delight, theory as praxis, mucking in
Creator: Wright, Sarah
Relation: Geographical Research Vol. 55, Issue 3, p. 338-343
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12207
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: In this commentary, I call for a regenerative approach to critique, a ‘good judgment’ through which academics might nurture the capacity to name and undermine racist, patriarchal, colonising, and homophobic practices, while working relationally to create new worlds. Drawing from Eva Sedgwick's critique of ‘paranoid theory’ and taking inspiration from post-colonial, feminist, and anti-racist social movements and research collectives, I consider what it might mean to be an academic who ‘mucks in’, who is not afraid of putting her hands in the dung, and who moves reflexively towards, rather than away from, difficult questions and risky engagements.
Subject: praxis; performativity; regenerative critique; social movements; collaborative research
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442085
Identifier: uon:41609
Identifier: ISSN:1745-5863
Language: eng
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