‘This thing that we do’: in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis
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2024
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Routledge
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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 7 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.
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Contact zones, Feminist posthumanism, Hydrofeminism, Swimming–writing–reading methodologies, Wit(h)nessing
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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, pp.1-20.