‘This thing that we do’: in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis
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Osgood, J. and Bozalek, V. 2024. ‘This thing that we do’: in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis. Gender and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2024.2325407
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Title | ‘This thing that we do’: in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis |
Authors | Osgood, J. and Bozalek, V. |
Abstract | In this paper we dwell amongst what was agitated from enacting Neimanis’ (2012) hydrofeminism in an ‘aqueous-body-writing-reading’ experiment that unfolded in discrete but entangled locations (London and Cape Town) to actively disrupt and reformulate ideas about what it is to do scholarly work. We consider how we might dislodge Anthropocentric ways of knowing, being and doing through our swimming-writing-reading. Aligned with emergent hydrofeminist scholarship our unruly writing experiment has - over seven months of alternating seasons on two continents - involved exchanging, diffracting, and curating words that e/merge together. The multiple, interwoven stories told in this paper are a direct challenge to what and how knowledge gets produced, by whom, where, and for what purposes. Working with wit(h)nessing; contact zones; and radical openness, our speculative, enmeshed, multispecies praxis offers glimpses into the possibilities that exist in porous spaces to generate knowledge differently in the spirit of hopeful renewal. |
Keywords | Hydrofeminism; swimming-writing-reading methodologies; feminist posthumanism; wit(h)nessing; contact zones |
Sustainable Development Goals | 13 Climate action |
4 Quality education | |
14 Life below water | |
10 Reduced inequalities | |
Middlesex University Theme | Sustainability |
Creativity, Culture & Enterprise | |
Health & Wellbeing | |
Research Group | Centre for Education Research and Scholarship (CERS) |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Journal | Gender and Education |
ISSN | 0954-0253 |
Electronic | 1360-0516 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 15 Mar 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Submitted | 26 Oct 2023 |
Accepted | 22 Feb 2024 |
Deposited | 16 Apr 2024 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Copyright Statement | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2024.2325407 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:001185829000001 |
Language | English |
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