scholarly journals Narrativas em disputa: desmantelando o sujeito universal e demarcando pontos de partida “O que é lugar de fala?” de Djamila Ribeiro Por Gabriela Monteiro

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Gabriela MONTEIRO
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Black Feminist

Resenha do livro O que é lugar de fala? é o primeiro livro da coleção Feminismos Plurais, lançado em 2017 e escrito pela ativista e intelectual Djamila Ribeiro. Nele a autora se propõe a desestabilizar as narrativas hegemônicas ao desmontar a falácia da voz universal e expor as diferentes condições sociais dos grupos para acessar lugares de cidadania. Propondo outros marcos epistêmicos e trazendo diversas referências da produção de conhecimento das feministas negras, Djamila denuncia como as relações de poder legitimam ou deslegitimam determinadas categorias a falar – e mesmo a existir. O livro também está sendo um fenônemo político de articulação e visibilidade, com eventos de lançamentos mobilizando milhares de mulheres negras brasileiras em todo o país. A presente resenha aborda os significados e inspirações do livro e da coleção e também conta com uma entrevista com a autora, num diálogo entre mulheres negras.Sujeito. Narrativas. Disputa. Djamila RibeiroNarratives in dispute: dismantling the universal subject and demarcating starting points "What is a place of speech?" - Djamila Ribeiroabstract "What is the place of speech?" is the first book in the Feminismos Plurais collection, published in 2017 and written by activist and intellectual Djamila Ribeiro. In this book, the author proposes to destabilize the hegemonic narratives by dismantling the fallacy of the universal voice and exposing the different social conditions of the groups to access places of citizenship. By proposing other epistemic milestones and bringing various references to black feminist knowledge production, Djamila denounces how power relations legitimize or delegitimize certain categories to speak - and even to exist. The book is also being a political phenomenon of articulation and visibility, with launch events mobilizing thousands of Brazilian black women throughout the country. This review addresses the meanings and inspirations of the book and the collection and also features an interview with the author in a dialogue among black women.Subject. Narratives. Disputes. Djamila Ribeiro 

Black Feminist Philosophy and the Politics of Refusal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axelle Karera
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Research Agendas

This chapter discusses the meaning, possibility, and contributions of Black feminist philosophy. The chapter discusses a politics of refusal that characterizes Black women’s theorizing and develops it as a framework for understanding how Black feminist philosophy is more than mere corrective and subversion of mainstream philosophy. As a framework, Black feminist philosophical “politics of refusal” depicts how Black feminist philosophers doing philosophy for Black women and girls refuse to sell themselves short, refuse institutionally imposed intellectual trajectories, and refuse to respond to philosophy’s call to order in their attempts to lay down uncompromisingly Black feminist research agendas in philosophy. The chapter offers an overview of important contributions to the field and discusses how a politics of refusal operates as critique and knowledge production within the field.

scholarly journals Song as a Register for Black Feminist Theatre-Making Aesthetic

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Refiloe Lepere
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Feminist Theatre ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Women In Theatre ◽  
The Creation

This article looks at the play, Dipina tsa Monyanyako, which was made with a group of domestic workers in South Africa. The article explores how song is used as a strategy to locate ways of creating and making in South Africa. Song therefore registers a historical way of imagining and how marginalised groups; women have written themselves into history. The production is a creative conversation where song is used to express care and anger in everyday life. Current approaches to knowledge production are inadequate in capturing song, poetics, and interpreting the forms of performances black women engage. The article makes a case for song as a form of black feminist theatre-making aesthetic. Using Dipina tsa Monyanyako, I argue that songs, silence, sighs have important methodological implications for arts-based processes and research. In post-apartheid South Africa, performances are characterized by constant aesthetic reinvention. From precolonial expressions of life to protest theatre, performance aesthetics have been a way of revealing everyday life and struggles. For black women, theatre becomes the meeting place of the expression of their lives and a space of reflection and analysis of those lives, even though, historically, the presence of black women in theatre has been minimal. The creation of Dipina tsa Monyanyako allowed for the emergence of women as empowered subjects, and song became a portal for collective transformation.

Encounters Across Borders. Modernist Ideas and Professional Practices in the 1970s Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-420
Author(s):  
Mara Mărginean
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
European Culture

Building on several international professional meetings of architects organized in Romania or abroad, this article details how various modernist principles, traditionally subsumed to Western European culture, were gradually reinterpreted as an object of policy and professional knowledge on urban space in the second and third world countries. The article analyses the dialogue between Romanian architects and their foreign colleagues. It highlights how these conversations adjusted the hierarchies and power relations between states and hegemonic centres of knowledge production. In this sense, it contributes to the recent research on the means by which the "trans- nationalization of expertise" "transformed various (semi)peripheral states into new centres of knowledge and thus outlines a new analytical space where domestic actions of the Romanian state in the area of urban policies are to be analysed not as isolated practices of a totalitarian regime, but as expressions of the entanglements between industrialization models, knowledge flows and models of territoriality that were not only globally relevant, but they also often received specific regional, national and local forms.

Romantic (In)Justice: Criminal-Legal System-Impacted Black Women’s Romantic Relationship Status and Quality

2021 ◽  
pp. 155708512110194
Author(s):  
Allison E. Monterrosa
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Relationship Status ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Psychological Strain ◽  
System Data ◽  
Criminal Legal System

This study of working class, heterosexual, criminal-legal system-impacted Black women described the women’s romantic histories and current romantic relationship statuses in terms of commitment, exclusivity, and perceived quality. Using intersectional research methods, qualitative interviews were conducted with 31 Black women between the ages of 18 and 65 years who were working class, resided in Southern California, and were impacted by the criminal-legal system. Data were analyzed using an intersectional Black feminist criminological framework and findings revealed six types of relationship statuses. These relationship statuses did not live up to the women’s aspirations and yielded disparate levels of emotional and psychological strain across relationship statuses.

scholarly journals Black feminist intersectionality is vital to group analysis: Can group analysis allow outsider ideas in?

2021 ◽  
pp. 053331642199776
Author(s):  
Suryia Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Feminism ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Analytical Structure ◽  
The Relationship

This is the transcript of a speech I gave at an Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) event on the 28th November 2020 about intersectionality and groups analysis. This was momentous for group analysis because it was the first IGA event to focus on black feminist intersectionality. Noteworthy, because it is so rare, the large group was convened by two black women, qualified members of the IGA—a deliberate intervention in keeping with my questioning of the relationship between group analysis and power, privilege, and position. This event took place during the Covid-19 pandemic via an online platform called ‘Zoom’. Whilst holding the event online had implications for the embodied visceral experience of the audience, it enabled an international attendance, including members of Group Analysis India. Invitation to the event: ‘Why the black feminist idea of intersectionality is vital to group analysis’ Using black feminist intersectionality, this workshop explores two interconnected issues: • Group analysis is about integration of parts, but how do we do this across difference in power, privilege, and position? • Can group analysis allow outsider ideas in? This question goes to the heart of who/ what we include in group analytic practice—what about black feminism? If there ‘cannot possibly be one single version of the truth so we need to hear as many different versions of it as we can’ (Blackwell, 2003: 462), we need to include as many different situated standpoints as possible. Here is where and why the black feminist idea of intersectionality is vital to group analysis. On equality, diversity and inclusion, intersectionality says that the ‘problems of exclusion cannot be solved simply by including black [people] within an already established analytical structure’ (Crenshaw, 1989: 140). Can group analysis allow the outsider idea of intersectionality in?

Customer Service Representatives

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-571
Author(s):  
Julian Kevon Glover
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Transgender Women ◽  
Average Life Expectancy ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Affective Labor ◽  
Murder Rate ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Customer Service Representatives

This article investigates sex work among Black transgender women in Chicago’s ballroom scene, drawing on ethnographic data to argue that Black transwomen engage in sex work as a practice of self-investment undergirded by an epistemological shift regarding the centrality of affective labor to their work. In so doing, interlocutors reap the benefits of deploying embodied knowledge—the harnessing and transformation of insight derived from lived experiences of racial, gender, and sexual subjection into useful strategies, tactics, and tools—to secure material and human resources necessary for survival. A focus on how Black transwomen live, despite continued physical, spiritual, socioeconomic, political, and cultural annihilation, remains critically important given the myriad indicators (low average life expectancy, low annual income, disproportionally high murder rate, etc.) that expose the world’s indifference to the plight of this community and Black bodies writ large. Further, the author places interlocutors in conversation with Black feminist historians’ and theorists’ discussions of sex work among Black women to expose points of convergence between Black cis- and transgender women. The author also complicates narratives that link sex work to “survival” and subsequently obfuscate explorations of limited and situated agency among Black women that have significant historical precedent.

scholarly journals Condições sociais de emergência de um subcampo esportivo: o caso do parkour (Social conditions of emergency of a sportive subfield: the case of parkour) (Condiciones sociales de emergencia de un subcampo deportivo: el caso del parkour)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 509-516
Author(s):  
Alessandra Vieira Fernandes ◽  
Vinicius Machado de Oliveira ◽  
Giuliano Gomes de Assis Pimentel ◽  
Juliano De Souza
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Regulatory Institutions ◽  
Empirical Material

Resumo: Esse artigo analisa a constituição histórica do subcampo esportivo do parkour sob a perspectiva teórica de Pierre Bourdieu. Remete-se à uma abordagem sociológica de caráter descritivo-analítico, cujo material empírico expressa-se na produção online dos praticantes. Em linhas gerais, o processo de desenvolvimento do parkour evidencia a influência da midiatização dos bens culturais e a incorporação de elementos da lógica esportiva que produziram transformações na estruturação da modalidade e no habitus dos agentes. O surgimento de instituições reguladoras, programas de profissionalização e competições introduziram e acentuaram uma distinção entre amadores e profissionais, configurando relações de poder no interior da prática. Abstract: This article analyzes the historical constitution of the sports subfield of parkour under the theoretical perspective of Pierre Bourdieu. It refers to a sociological approach of a descriptive-analytical character, whose empirical material is expressed in the online production of practitioners. In general, the development process of parkour evidences the influence of the mediatization of cultural goods and the incorporation of elements of the sports logic that have produced transformations in the structure of the modality and in the habitus of the agents. The emergence of regulatory institutions, professionalization programs and competitions have introduced and accentuated a distinction between amateurs and professionals, configuring power relations within the practice.Resumen: Este artículo analiza el desarrollo histórico del subcampo deportivo del parkour de acuerdo con la perspectiva teórica de Pierre Bourdieu. Se hace referencia a un enfoque sociológico de carácter descriptivo-analitico, cuyo material empírico se expresa en la producción online de los practicantes. En general, el proceso de desarrollo del parkour muestra la influencia de la cobertura mediática de los bienes culturales y la incorporación de elementos de la lógica de los deportes que produjeron cambios en la estructura de la modalidad y en el habitus de los agentes. La aparición de instituciones reguladoras, programas de formación profesional y competiciones, introdujeron y ampliaron la distinción entre los amateurs y profesionales, estableciendo relaciones de poder dentro de la práctica.

scholarly journals Memeification of Black Women’s Trauma

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Stravens
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The People ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
History Of

This piece discusses the online and offline discourses on the lives and bodies of Black femme and nonbinary individuals and the harm that is so casually inflicted upon us. Through popular stories of harm performed around famous Black women, such as with rapper Megan Thee Stallion, I connect the history of Black women in popular culture to current online spaces that continue to minimize and trivialize our trauma. I seek to highlight that these stories are not an anomaly, but rather sentiments rooted in the misogynoir that is so entrenched in western culture and have been expanded and weaponized within the online sphere. In addition, the piece challenges the universality of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in its implementation, criticizing its propensity to forget its feminine victims. It is important to emphasize where it has failed and where it needs to be intentional about the people it has overlooked, as this is a movement that began online, where this harm is currently taking place, and at the hands and energies of Black femmes, the very people getting hurt. This piece has manifested from many conversations already occurring in online Black feminist spaces about our treatment and our needs. It invites others into the fold and seeks to encourage individuals to critically reflect on how Black femme and non-binary individuals are presented on their timeline in-between the numerous BLM posts that claim to protect them.

Writing Ourselves into Existence

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-27
Author(s):  
Shardé M. Davis ◽  
Frances Ashun ◽  
Alleyha Dannett ◽  
Kayla Edwards ◽  
Victoria Nwaohuocha
Keyword(s):  
Women Students ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Black Feminist Thought ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Critical Autoethnography ◽  
Research Praxis

Academia can be a hostile environment for Black women. Our research team leveraged Black feminist research praxis to produce new knowledge countering conceptions of Black women students and faculty as people who are unintelligent, produce superfluous work, and worthy of being ignored. In order to locate spaces for healing, mentorship, and validation, we engaged in a collaborative autoethnography to co-narrate our experiences while conducting a study for, by, and about Black women. Re-purposing tools from Black feminist thought, critical autoethnography, and collaborative autoethnography enabled us to write ourselves into existence, countering damaging narratives and subverting the harm inflicted by the institution.

(Other)sistering: Black Women Education Leadership Faculty Aligning Identity, Scholarship, and Practice Through Peer Support and Accountability

2022 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-113
Author(s):  
Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas ◽  
Marsha E. Modeste ◽  
Angel Miles Nash ◽  
Lolita A. Tabron
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Black Feminist Thought ◽  
Community Cultural Wealth ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Dynamic Support ◽  
Assistant Professors ◽  
Insight Into

This inquiry offers insight into how Black women assistant professors traverse the challenging journey toward tenure while acknowledging their connection to their students and communities, research, teaching, and service. By employing a phenomenological approach and utilizing Black feminist thought and community cultural wealth as conceptual and theoretical frameworks, this research advances scholarship identifying commonalities across Black women’s experiences. Further, we offer implications for how the academy can support Black women and other professionals from marginalized populations. Findings include how Black women assistant professors develop and create dynamic support systems amongst themselves to combat the multiple marginalizations of their positionality in the academy––a place where they are historically “outsiders.”

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