Focusing on the discipline of political science, this collection examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. As the study of politics and political life, the mainstream of the discipline has examined power in the institutions and processes of government. But if the personal is political, political science is about much more than what happens in those institutions. This collection draws together personal essays, pedagogical interventions, dialogues, and original research to reflect on how "feministing" as an orientation and as an analytic can centre experiential knowledge and reshape our understandings of political science. Collectively, these contributions lay bare the ways that power moves in and through the academy, naming the impacts on those who are most structurally precarious, all while pointing to potential futures made possible by refusal, solidarity, and hope.
Contents:
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
TEMPORALITY AND THE CASE FOR TRANSFORMATION
1 "Diversity Is Important, but Only When It Is the 'Right' Type of Diversity"
2 Being "Reasonable" (whilst Feminist and Black) within the Neoliberal University
3 The Fish and the Spider
4 Anti-Racist and Indigenous Feminism and the Generative Power of Disruption
RELATIONALITY, COMMUNITY, AND CARE
5 Your Absence Is Not an Accident
6 Disrupting Feminism / Confronting Ableism
7 Indigenous Feminisms and Political Science
8 Feministing Online
9 Conversations in Feminist Solidarity
10 Don't Be an Asshole
FEMINISTING AND THE "REAL" WORLD OF POLITICS
11 Letters of Engagement
Feministing
JEANETTE ASHE
GATEKEEPING, PEDAGOGY, AND MENTORING
14 Radical Pedagogies for the Present
15 Reworlding the Canadian University
16 Photovoice as Feminist Pedagogy
17 Learning to Relinquish Silence
(RE)BUILDING POLITICAL SCIENCE
18 Towards an Agenda for Feministing Political Science
Original Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta
, University of Alberta Press
Language(s): English
ISBN:
9781772127478
,
1772127477
,
9781772127461
,
1772127469
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DC Contributor
Cattapan, Alana
Tungohan, Ethel
Nath, Nisha
MacDonald, Fiona
Paterson, Stephanie
Abstract
Focusing on the discipline of political science, this collection examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. As the study of politics and political life, the mainstream of the discipline has examined power in the institutions and processes of government. But if the personal is political, political science is about much more than what happens in those institutions. This collection draws together personal essays, pedagogical interventions, dialogues, and original research to reflect on how "feministing" as an orientation and as an analytic can centre experiential knowledge and reshape our understandings of political science. Collectively, these contributions lay bare the ways that power moves in and through the academy, naming the impacts on those who are most structurally precarious, all while pointing to potential futures made possible by refusal, solidarity, and hope.