A Long Way to Go: Collective Paths to Racial Justice in Geography
A Long Way to Go: Collective Paths to Racial Justice in Geography
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DOI：
10.1080/00330124.2018.1547977
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Torres, Rebecca Maria
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作者：
Faria, Caroline;Falola, Bisola;Torres, Rebecca Maria
尽管几十年来人们对多样性的认识和担忧，我们的学科仍然始终是白人。也就是说，它由白人主体主导，并且继续遵守白人的规范、实践和意识形态。这是一种损失。充其量，它限制了我们作为地理学家工作的可能性和影响。最坏的情况是，它使我们的学科中有害的排斥现象长期存在：它的工作环境、它的机构和它的知识生产。这仍然让许多地理学家深感担忧，多年来一直有重要的研究、评论和机构活动。然而，研究表明我们几乎没有取得任何有意义的进展。我们知道，指导是变革之旅的重要组成部分之一。因此，我们在此反思我们在变革性指导实践的基础上发展研究集体的经验。我们概述了该集体在支持有色人种女性本科生、研究生和地理学家方面所面临的主要挑战、策略和初步成功，认为这种女权主义形态是我们领域实现知识种族正义之路的重要组成部分。
Despite decades of recognition and worry about diversity, our discipline remains persistently white. That is, it is dominated by white bodies and it continues to conform to norms, practices, and ideologies of whiteness. This is a loss. At best, it limits the possibilities and impact of our work as geographers. At worst, it perpetuates harmful exclusions in our discipline: its working environments, its institutions, and its knowledge production. This remains deeply concerning for many geographers, and there has been important research, commentary, and institutional activity over the years. Yet, research shows us that little meaningful progress has been made. We know that mentoring is one vital part of the journey toward change. As such, we reflect here on our experience developing a research collective built on a transformative mentoring practice. We outline the key challenges, strategies, and tentative successes of the collective in supporting women of color undergraduate, graduate, and faculty geographers, arguing that such feminist formations are a vital part of the path to intellectual racial justice in our field.