Situated solidarities and the practice of scholar-activism

2015/06/01 by Paul Routledge, Kate Driscoll Derickson · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies #Water Governance and Infrastructure

paper · doi:10.1177/0263775815594308

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Abstract

Drawing on an analysis of an ongoing collaboration with rural peasant movements in Bangladesh, we explore the possibility of forging solidarity through practices of scholar-activism. In so doing, we consider the practice of reflexivity, reconsider forms of solidarity, and draw on the concept of convergence spaces as a way to envision sites of possibility. We mobilize the notion of situated solidarities to propose an alternative form of reflexive practice in scholarship. We then posit that there are six ‘practices’ that provide a useful schematic for thinking through the opportunities for the construction of these solidarities.

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