Notes on collective care as black feminist praxis within, outside, and against the academic industrial machine
In this collaborative meditation, understandings and practices of academic living in the Nordics as Afro-Nordic feminists are enacted through an explorative methodology of engaging and re-imagining forms for knowledge production through the lens of Black feminist theorizations. In particular, we reh...
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| description | In this collaborative meditation, understandings and practices of academic living in the Nordics as Afro-Nordic feminists are enacted through an explorative methodology of engaging and re-imagining forms for knowledge production through the lens of Black feminist theorizations. In particular, we rehearse practices of collective care through a form of collective note keeping, a practice which is in kinship with Christina Sharpe's concept of notes (2023). In practicing this collective note keeping, we attempt to make explicit some of the conditions, contexts, and practices which make up the antiblack climate (Sharpe, 2016) of academia, as well as the Black feminist values and practices which help us weather these conditions. In our notes, we offer a generative critique of not only the conditions which structure the experiences of African and Black feminists in Nordic academia, but also the often seemingly progressive efforts which purport to make academia a more inclusive space. Grounded in our specific, overlapping yet different positions, experiences, and relations to academia, we also explore the ways in which our collective facilitates experimentation with alternative ways of being, relating, and co-creating knowledge which center Black feminist ethics of care, collaboration, and shared memory. We share these notes reflecting on our work together to illustrate the possibilities of imagining and creating fugitive spaces of collective care within, outside, and against the academic industrial machine. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cfe556d2e0e04246b5b5b645f1e0a0342025-08-20T03:07:12ZengElsevierSocial Sciences and Humanities Open2590-29112025-01-011210187310.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101873Notes on collective care as black feminist praxis within, outside, and against the academic industrial machineJasmine Kelekay0Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo1Lena Sawyer2Howard University, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Douglass Memorial Hall, 2419 6th Street NW, 2nd Floor Suite 202, Washington, DC, 20059, USA; Corresponding author.Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA, Rotterdam, NetherlandsGothenburg University, Sprängkullsgatan 23-25, 411 23, Gothenburg, SwedenIn this collaborative meditation, understandings and practices of academic living in the Nordics as Afro-Nordic feminists are enacted through an explorative methodology of engaging and re-imagining forms for knowledge production through the lens of Black feminist theorizations. In particular, we rehearse practices of collective care through a form of collective note keeping, a practice which is in kinship with Christina Sharpe's concept of notes (2023). In practicing this collective note keeping, we attempt to make explicit some of the conditions, contexts, and practices which make up the antiblack climate (Sharpe, 2016) of academia, as well as the Black feminist values and practices which help us weather these conditions. In our notes, we offer a generative critique of not only the conditions which structure the experiences of African and Black feminists in Nordic academia, but also the often seemingly progressive efforts which purport to make academia a more inclusive space. Grounded in our specific, overlapping yet different positions, experiences, and relations to academia, we also explore the ways in which our collective facilitates experimentation with alternative ways of being, relating, and co-creating knowledge which center Black feminist ethics of care, collaboration, and shared memory. We share these notes reflecting on our work together to illustrate the possibilities of imagining and creating fugitive spaces of collective care within, outside, and against the academic industrial machine.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291125006011 |
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