Black Women, State Violence and Higher Education Spaces: How Black women navigate activism in Higher Education Spaces in the UK and US

我的博士研究建议调查黑人女性活动家在高等教育领域的生活。我的目标有三个。首先，我试图探索在英国和美国从事以高等教育为基础的激进工作的黑人女性学者、学生和工作人员的生活经历，特别是在两国早产和民粹主义抬头的时期。其次，我希望揭示他们是如何将自己视为民族国家内的政治参与者，承认他们正在航行的空间的暴力。第三，我试图更好地理解他们与两个民族国家的“精英”高等教育机构的政治接触，以此来理解他们的压迫特征。我将采用定性研究相结合的方法：档案研究法和照片启发式访谈。前者将允许我将我的工作载入史册，并将其置于长期的机构紧张局势中。后者将允许我可视化和探索我的参与者导航的逃战。

My doctoral research proposes to investigate the lives of Black female activists in higher education spaces. My aim is threefold. First, I seek to explore the lived experiences of Black women scholars, students and staff who engage in HE based activist work in the UK and US, particularly during rising precarity and populism in both countries. Second, I hope to uncover how they view themselves as political actors within the nation-state, acknowledging the violence of the spaces they are navigating. Thirdly, I seek to better understand their political engagements with 'elite' HE institutions in both nation-states as a way of comprehending their oppressive features. I will use a combination of qualitative research methods: archival research and photo-elicitation interviews. The former will allow me to historicise my work and ground it in longstanding institutional tensions. The latter will allow me to visualise and probe the battlescapes my participants navigate.