Beyond boundaries? Activism, academia, reflexivity and research
Beyond boundaries? Activism, academia, reflexivity and research
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超越界限？
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1999
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Ian Maxey
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Ian Maxey
在本文中，我利用自己的经验来质疑围绕行动主义和学术界概念构建的一些界限。首先，我介绍了行动主义作为一个话语产生的概念，具有挑战和支持社会排斥的潜力。我提出了一种包容的、反思性的行动主义观点，将我们所有人都视为“活动家”。利用对行动主义的理解以及女权主义者和其他批判性地理学家的工作，我考虑了反身性在研究和其他行动主义项目中的作用。然后，根据我自己的行动主义经历，我探索了再现学术-行动主义二元对立的一些界限。我认为这种界限是主动构建的，可能会损害学术研究的解放潜力。我在文章的最后提出，基于我们生活偶然性的反身性可以支持学术界内外的行动主义。
Summary In this paper, I draw on my own experiences to question some of the boundaries constructed around notions of activism and academia. Firstly, I introduce activism as a discursively produced concept with potential both to challenge and to support social exclusion. I propose an inclusive, reflexive view of activism that places us all as ‘activists’. Using this understanding of activism and the work of feminist and other critical geographers, I consider the role of reflexivity within research and other activist projects. Drawing on my own experiences of activism, I then explore some of the boundaries that reproduce the academic-activist binary. I suggest such boundaries are actively constructed and may compromise the liberatory potential of academic research. I conclude the article by suggesting that a reflexivity grounded in the contingency of our lives can support activism within the academy and beyond.