“Writing the Other as Other”: Exploring the Othered Lens in Academia Using Collaborative Autoethnography

A. Ajil, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
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Trends seemingly signal the decay of White heterosexual male hegemony in academe. Still, while changes have addressed lack of access to an academic system whose benefits are assumed, critical literatures call into question Western-based theory and traditionally Eurocentric ways of knowledge production. An important programmatic component of decolonizing knowledge production consists of arguing for increased inclusivity and diversity among scholars. The present study is inscribed in these decolonial tendencies and focuses on the experience of otherness inside academia. Using collaborative autoethnography, we set side-by-side the academic and professional experiences and epistemological reflections of two criminal justice and criminology scholars: an Arab European scholar of politico-ideological violence and a Black American scholar of identity and the psychology of justice. We explore otherness as a ‘social fact’ and identify three dimensions, namely (1) otherness as a lens to read coloniality, (2) feeling and coping with otherness, and (3) otherness as connection. We suggest that promoting the “othered lens” in academia, especially criminology, may not only be healthy and necessary for a diversification of views and perspectives, but also epistemologically and methodologically vital for how criminology engages with the socially deviant or harmed Other it is, by its very essence, preoccupied with.
“把他者写成他者”:用协作式的自我民族志探索学术界的他者镜头
趋势似乎预示着白人异性恋男性霸权在学术界的衰落。然而,尽管变化已经解决了缺乏进入学术体系的问题,而学术体系的好处是假定的,但批判性文献对西方为基础的理论和传统上以欧洲为中心的知识生产方式提出了质疑。非殖民化知识生产的一个重要方案组成部分是主张增加学者之间的包容性和多样性。本研究是在这些非殖民化的趋势中进行的,并侧重于学术界内部的他者性经验。通过合作的自我民族志,我们将两位刑事司法和犯罪学学者的学术和专业经验以及认识论反思放在一起:一位是研究政治意识形态暴力的阿拉伯欧洲学者,另一位是研究身份和正义心理学的美国黑人学者。我们将他性作为一种“社会事实”来探索,并确定了三个维度,即(1)他性作为解读殖民性的视角,(2)感受和应对他性,以及(3)作为联系的他性。我们建议,在学术界,特别是犯罪学中推广“他者视角”,不仅对观点和观点的多样化是健康和必要的,而且在认识论和方法论上对犯罪学如何与社会偏差或受到伤害的他者接触至关重要,从本质上讲,它是全神贯注的。
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