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

我的博士研究计划调查黑人女性激进分子在高等教育领域的生活。我的目标是三重的。首先，我试图探索在英国和美国从事高等教育活动的黑人女性学者、学生和工作人员的生活经历，特别是在这两个国家不稳定和民粹主义日益加剧的时期。其次，我希望揭示他们如何将自己视为民族国家中的政治参与者，并承认他们正在导航的空间的暴力。第三，我试图更好地理解他们与这两个民族国家的“精英”高等教育机构的政治接触，以此作为理解其压迫特征的一种方式。我将使用定性研究方法的结合：档案研究和照片启发访谈。前者将使我能够将我的工作历史化，并将其置于长期存在的制度紧张关系中。后者将允许我可视化和探索我的参与者导航的战斗通道。

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.