Answering the crisis with intellectual activism: Making a difference as business schools scholars

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Contu
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Angela Davis ◽  
Management Association ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
Patricia Hill Collins ◽  
Intellectual Activism

Should business school scholars engage in intellectual activism? This article explicates the origin, the intellectual tradition and politics of intellectual activism, making a case for why management scholars might want to become intellectual activists. Intellectual activism has been elaborated in Patricia Hill Collins’ contributions and the work of other black feminist intellectuals and activists such as Angela Davis. Together with the writings of Antonio Gramsci and Judith Butler, intellectual activism is reframed here as a particular type of critical performativity to help scholars make a difference in the world. This article invites scholars to answer the challenges posed by the crisis of neoliberalism, and to re-articulate the values of equality, freedom and solidarity by embodying an academic praxis that is progressive, intersectional, critical and concretely engaged in the service of social, economic and epistemic justice. The article also provides examples of intellectual activism by showcasing the activities of the critical management association, Vida.

scholarly journals Black Feminist Triptych

Homiletic ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Donyelle C. McCray
Keyword(s):  
Black Feminism ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Angela Davis ◽  
June Jordan

Two driving features of Black feminism are care and collectivity. This article considers them as vectors for Christian preaching. I focus on a specific speech event that involves Alice Walker, Angela Davis, and June Jordan, and treat it as a case study for Black feminist preaching. Ultimately, I propose a triptych approach to preaching that entails layering sermonic messages, accommodating dissonance, and foregrounding mutuality.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Construction ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Commodity Culture ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Angela Davis ◽  
Raymond Williams

106 scholarly articles This is a compendium of touchstone articles by prominent communication, rhetorical, and cultural studies scholars about topics of interest to scholars and critics of popular and political culture. Articles provide authoritative surveys of concepts such as rhetorical construction of bodies, Marxist, feminist, and poststructuralist traditions, materialisms, social movements, race and anti-racist critique, whiteness, surveillance and security, visual communication, globalization, social media and digital communication/cyberculture, performance studies, the “post-human” turn, critical organizational communication, public memory, gaming, cultural industries, colonialism and postcolonialism, The Birmingham and Frankfurt Schools, commodity culture, critical health culture studies, nation and identity, public spheres, psychoanalytic theory and methods, affect theory, anti-Semitism, queer studies, critical argumentation studies, diaspora, development, intersectionality, Islamophobia, subaltern studies, spatial studies, rhetoric and cultural studies, neoliberalism, critical pedagogy, urban studies, deconstruction, audience studies, labor, war, age studies, motherhood studies, popular culture, communication in the Global South, and more. The work also surveys critical thinkers for cultural studies including Stuart Hall, Antonio Gramsci, Jesus Martin Barbero, Angela Davis, Ernesto Laclau, Raymond Williams, Giles Deleuze, Jurgen Habermas, Frantz Fanon, Chandra Mohanty, Gayatri Spivak, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, Gloria Anzaldua, Paolo Freire, Donna Haraway, Georgio Agamben, Slavoj Zizek, W.E.B. DuBois, Sara Ahmed, Paul Gilroy, Enrique Dussel, Michael Warner, Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Mignolo, Edward Said, Alain Badiou, Homi Bhabha, among others. Each entry is distinguished by lists of key references and suggestions for further reading. The collection is sure to be a vital resource for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates seeking authoritative overviews of key concepts and people in communication and critical cultural studies.

scholarly journals Revolução do feminismo negro!

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-88
Author(s):  
Elsa Dorlin
Keyword(s):  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Angela Davis ◽  
Patricia Hill Collins

Este texto, que serviu de introdução a uma coletânea de textos fundadores do feminismo negro estadunidense, faz um percurso historiográfico das diversas etapas desse movimento, as chamadas “ondas”, desde a primeira delas, surgida na década de 1850 e promovida pelos movimentos de abolição da escravatura nos Estados Unidos, passando pela segunda, representada pelas grandes correntes ativistas e teóricas da década de 1970, até a atual “terceira onda”, em que se faz um questionamento crítico da heteronormatividade ainda muito presente nas primeiras fases do feminismo que foram, essencialmente, feminismos brancos. A autora faz uma detalhada análise crítica da terminologia que, desde sempre, tem sido empregada para qualificar ou, antes, desqualificar a mulher negra na sociedade estadunidense, com a criação de pesados estereótipos a respeito da sexualidade supostamente exacerbada, não só do homem negro, mas principalmente da mulher negra. Elsa Dorlin passa em revista as importantes contribuições do coletivo Combahee e de autoras como Laura Alexandra Harris, Beverly Guy-Shefall, Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberly Springer, Michele Wallace, Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Hazel Carby, Angela Davis e bell hooks.

Subjectivity and Subjectivation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Marie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Angela Davis ◽  
Socialist Feminism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Foucauldian Theory ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms

A chapter addressing the formation of the subject, and the rejection of the assumption that gender and sex are simply given, in various feminist theory paradigms. The project of advancing gender justice requires close attention to the ways in which categories of biological sex and gender, in intersectional relations with race, ethnicity, nationality, class and so on, are historically constructed and deployed to bring subjects into being, even as these same categories are resisted and re-negotiated at the same time in an always agonistic field of social relations. Special reference is made to three pairs of theoretical paradigms and practitioners: liberal feminism and Nancy J. Hirschmann; antiracist socialist feminism and Angela Davis; Derridean-Foucauldian theory and Judith Butler.

scholarly journals #SayHerName Loudly: How Black Girls Are Leading #BlackLivesMatter

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ileana Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Angela Davis

In the style of a black feminist roundtable, black girls at LREI (Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School), the famous progressive school from which Angela Davis was graduated in 1961, discuss the ways in which they are leading the #BlackLivesMatter movement by using an intersectional feminist lens to create poetry and film to resist systems of oppression and to #SayHerName as well as their own.

scholarly journals “Esther Weren’t No Harlot”: Rape and Marriage in Go Tell It on the Mountain

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Porter Nenon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Patricia Williams ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Patricia Hill Collins

To consider how James Baldwin resisted racialized notions of sexuality in his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, I employ a number of black feminist critics—including Saidiya Hartman, Patricia Williams, Hortense Spillers, and Patricia Hill Collins—to analyze three under-studied minor characters: Deborah, Esther, and Richard. Those three characters are best understood as figures of heterosexual nonconformity who articulate sophisticated and important critiques of rape and marriage in America at the turn of the twentieth century. Baldwin thus wrote subversive theories of race and sexuality into the margins of the novel, making its style inextricable from its politics. Baldwin’s use of marginal voices was a deft and intentional artistic choice that was emancipatory for his characters and that remains enduringly relevant to American sexual politics. In this particularly polarizing transition from the Obama era to the Donald J. Trump presidency, I revisit Baldwin’s ability to subtly translate political ideas across fault lines like race, nationality, and sex.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document