{"title":"Decolonization of Post-Soviet Higher Education: Critical Inquiry Through a Reflexive Scholarly Dialogue","authors":"A. Oleksiyenko, Giorgi Tavadze","doi":"10.1177/15327086241266217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086241266217","url":null,"abstract":"This study probes a format of reflexive scholarly dialogue (RSD) to enhance critical inquiry for exploration and validation of dilemmas of postcolonialism in the post-soviet environments where coloniality is debatable and politicized. In this article, the RSD is conducted by two professors, located in different countries and cultures (Ukraine and Georgia) but sharing similar postcolonial experiences. Anatoly Oleksiyenko and Giorgi Tavadze reflect on what it means to decolonize themselves and their scholarship from the imperial discourse propagated by the Kremlin. They try to understand what de-Sovietization contributes to thinking and communication inter-ethnically and internationally. Re-examining their own experiences, Oleksiyenko and Tavadze delve into several issues that are essential for advancing critical thinking and discourse in this area of research: that is, the problems of coping with Russian propaganda and anti-westernization; critical inquiry into the purposes of de-Sovietization; and the future of decolonization and transformations of learning and inquiry in the post-soviet spaces of higher education. While developing RSD as a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary instrument, the authors seek opportunities to problematize the prevalent concepts and approaches in postcolonial and decolonial studies in global higher education.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":"78 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141798165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obstinate Memory: A Radical Participatory Film-Based Research Approach","authors":"Ken Fero, John Hutnyk","doi":"10.1177/15327086241240419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086241240419","url":null,"abstract":"Obstinate memory is an insistent resource for communities. Migrant Media advocates the methodology of a “documentary of force” as a research tool for filmmakers and academics. As a U.K.-based collective of filmmaker-activists involved in community struggles, Migrant Media’s resistance-based work uses cameras and screens to challenge racism and police violence. Drawing on film documentary history from figures as diverse as Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Black Audio Film Collective, and Third Cinema, the Migrant Media story is revealed through attempts to ban the 2001 film Injustice and a more recent series filmed with nurses during the coronavirus pandemic. We suggest some directions for further research at the end.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":"58 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140975978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confronting Inadequacy, Imposture, and Inaction: Ukraine, Hong Kong, and Difficult Knowledge","authors":"Winne Wong","doi":"10.1177/15327086241250076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086241250076","url":null,"abstract":"In this piece, I explore the deluge of thoughts and emotions triggered by the opportunity of writing about the war in Ukraine. Thinking with Noddings’s ethic of care, Britzman’s idea of difficult knowledge, Dewey’s and Ingold’s visions on education and commoning, and Probyn’s arguments on writing about affects, I reflect on academic practices of research and writing, what constitutes the urge of responding to the call for papers of this special issue, the affective response it sparks in me concerning my relation with my own home city, and some sense of how to move forward.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":"111 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140977768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonizing Relationality: Reflections From the Summer Institute in Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Research Methods","authors":"Meagan Call-Cummings, Sharrell Hassell-Goodman, Amy L. Best, Marissa Castillo, Samiee Espinoza-Villejo, Keira Moore, Alliyah Moore, Maya Revell, Ariana Romero","doi":"10.1177/15327086241250073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086241250073","url":null,"abstract":"We are members of the Summer Institute in Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Research Methods, which attempts to shift social science research to be more inclusive and more explicitly connected to anti-racist and decolonizing principles. We tell a complicated, messy, often difficult story of what relationality could be in the context of work like ours. We hope that readers will consider the complications of relationality beyond the interpersonal questions of methods, as those conversations remain too narrowly focused on the interpersonal in the research encounter, with insufficient attention to the institutional and system-level assaults that inflict both material suffering and symbolic violence.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":"33 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140981148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bryant Keith Alexander, Paris Balla, Myf Doughty, Yanxi Shen, Saverio Minutolo, Cassandra Gibson, Lauren Stewart, Mish Grigor, Miranda Park, Cat Hope, Aaron Wyatt, Eugene Ughetti, Karissa Taylor, Iris Kennedy, Helen Svoboda, Stacy L. Holman Jones
{"title":"Four Movements From Melbourne: Building Communities Through Collaborative Autoethnographies","authors":"Bryant Keith Alexander, Paris Balla, Myf Doughty, Yanxi Shen, Saverio Minutolo, Cassandra Gibson, Lauren Stewart, Mish Grigor, Miranda Park, Cat Hope, Aaron Wyatt, Eugene Ughetti, Karissa Taylor, Iris Kennedy, Helen Svoboda, Stacy L. Holman Jones","doi":"10.1177/15327086231219704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086231219704","url":null,"abstract":"This collaborative autoethnography invited and engaged 16 participants in a workshop to both explore and embody autoethnography as communal activity. Working in four groups, each group determined a prompt for reflection and remembrance, writing individually and sharing communally their diverse but interlocking cultural memory and practice.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bryant Keith Alexander, Paris Balla, Myf Doughty, Yanxi Shen, Saverio Minutolo, Cassandra Gibson, Lauren Stewart, Mish Grigor, Miranda Park, Cat Hope, Aaron Wyatt, Eugene Ughetti, Karissa Taylor, Iris Kennedy, Helen Svoboda, Stacy L. Holman Jones
{"title":"Four Movements From Melbourne: Building Communities Through Collaborative Autoethnographies","authors":"Bryant Keith Alexander, Paris Balla, Myf Doughty, Yanxi Shen, Saverio Minutolo, Cassandra Gibson, Lauren Stewart, Mish Grigor, Miranda Park, Cat Hope, Aaron Wyatt, Eugene Ughetti, Karissa Taylor, Iris Kennedy, Helen Svoboda, Stacy L. Holman Jones","doi":"10.1177/15327086231219704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086231219704","url":null,"abstract":"This collaborative autoethnography invited and engaged 16 participants in a workshop to both explore and embody autoethnography as communal activity. Working in four groups, each group determined a prompt for reflection and remembrance, writing individually and sharing communally their diverse but interlocking cultural memory and practice.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":"247 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139833646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monstrous Pedagogy at the Intersections of White Privilege, Visible Disability","authors":"C. E. Mulderink","doi":"10.1177/15327086241229783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086241229783","url":null,"abstract":"This autoethnographic article centers my White, disabled, and female body as a site of knowledge and struggle within the context of teaching an introductory communication course. I chronicle through key experiences I have had as an official instructor. I draw from various scholars whose work explicates the official teacher’s body as consequential. As a White woman with a visible disability, I use Calafell’s articulation of monstrosity to process through how I perform my White, disabled, female identities in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":"58 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139781568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monstrous Pedagogy at the Intersections of White Privilege, Visible Disability","authors":"C. E. Mulderink","doi":"10.1177/15327086241229783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086241229783","url":null,"abstract":"This autoethnographic article centers my White, disabled, and female body as a site of knowledge and struggle within the context of teaching an introductory communication course. I chronicle through key experiences I have had as an official instructor. I draw from various scholars whose work explicates the official teacher’s body as consequential. As a White woman with a visible disability, I use Calafell’s articulation of monstrosity to process through how I perform my White, disabled, female identities in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":"409 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139841648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Divine Feminine: Calling Back the Treasured Moʻolelo From the Forbidden Past to Heal the Present","authors":"R. D. de Silva","doi":"10.1177/15327086231224782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086231224782","url":null,"abstract":"When we listen to mo‘olelo (stories) of specific places and spaces in the Hawaiian Islands, we see ‘wāhine (women) traits of strength and resilience in how they perform their kuleana (obligation) to the ‘āina (land). By strengthening the ties of sovereignty within the Hawaiian Islands, the ‘wāhine are teaching ways to secure food for the lāhui (nation). Using narrative inquiry and Kānaka Ōiwi methodology, this body of work draws broader parallels through the lenses of intersubjectivity to understand the implications of coloniality and the continued rise of women’s presence in their efforts to strengthen the food sovereignty for the lāhui.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":" 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139790258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Divine Feminine: Calling Back the Treasured Moʻolelo From the Forbidden Past to Heal the Present","authors":"R. D. de Silva","doi":"10.1177/15327086231224782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086231224782","url":null,"abstract":"When we listen to mo‘olelo (stories) of specific places and spaces in the Hawaiian Islands, we see ‘wāhine (women) traits of strength and resilience in how they perform their kuleana (obligation) to the ‘āina (land). By strengthening the ties of sovereignty within the Hawaiian Islands, the ‘wāhine are teaching ways to secure food for the lāhui (nation). Using narrative inquiry and Kānaka Ōiwi methodology, this body of work draws broader parallels through the lenses of intersubjectivity to understand the implications of coloniality and the continued rise of women’s presence in their efforts to strengthen the food sovereignty for the lāhui.","PeriodicalId":354189,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies","volume":"9 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139850147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}