Based on Reading:
Why Citation matters: Ideas on a feminist approach to research.
Christina Templin (SoSe 2021)
Reflection:
“…knowledge claims from Black feminist scholars do not come from a single person but are worked out in a community or dialogue with others.”
-(Collins, 2022)
I picked up this reading as part of the pre-task for Workshop 2 and its one that stuck with me for days to come. What struck me in particular is when Hill (2000, as cited in Templin, 2022) talks about this idea of dialogue and collective experience/wisdom as a form of alternate knowledge when referring to the experiences of Black women and further Black feminist scholars. The article positions itself within the world of citation and how knowledge is generated or gate-kept in a white heteromasculine (academic) context (Templin, 2022); highlighting the institution barriers that prevent alternate knowledge from entering the academic domain.
It got me thinking about how I want to set up this project and more than anything, what the ethos of this project should be. If we’re talking about things like friendship and belonging, these are lived experiences that are both individual (to each student) and communal/shared (within each cohort or even across cohorts). As such, I believe that the collective wisdom of these cohorts must be fore-fronted within the search for answers to the questions I will be asking through this work.
It’s not to say that I will be ignoring or not considering the relevance of work that has already been done in this field; around creative communities, critical friendship, belonging and other aspects important to this world. But rather, that I hope to place equal importance on the data I collect from students as knowledge itself rather than the validation of existing conclusions.
References:
- Collins, P. H. (2000). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Routledge.
- Ahmed, S. (2017). Living a feminist life. Duke University Press.
- Templin, C. (2022). Why Citation matters: Ideas on a feminist approach to research. Blog ABV Gender-und Diversitykompetenz FU Berlin. https://blogs. fu-berlin. de/abv-gender-diversity/2022/01/10/why-citation-matters:-ideas-on-a-feminist-approach-to-research/(10.10. 2022).