Creative tensions : Lüvo’s feminist decolonial praxis in working through/and against neoliberal academia
Avoine, Priscyll Anctil and Pacciardi, Agnese LU
(2025)
In Globalisation, Societies and Education
- Abstract
This article delves into the challenges of conducting activist research with communities labelled as ‘marginalised’ within the confines of neoliberal academia. Through autoethnography and feminist decolonial praxis, we draw from our experiences with Lüvo, a feminist antiracist collective, to illustrate how we navigate these obstacles and integrate our scholarly endeavours with transformative activism. Specifically, we examine three intertwined constraints encountered when working within neoliberal academic structures alongside ‘marginalised’ communities: language, time, and space. After delineating these significant challenges, we propose four methodological and epistemological strategies aimed at surmounting them: mobilising translocal... (More)
This article delves into the challenges of conducting activist research with communities labelled as ‘marginalised’ within the confines of neoliberal academia. Through autoethnography and feminist decolonial praxis, we draw from our experiences with Lüvo, a feminist antiracist collective, to illustrate how we navigate these obstacles and integrate our scholarly endeavours with transformative activism. Specifically, we examine three intertwined constraints encountered when working within neoliberal academic structures alongside ‘marginalised’ communities: language, time, and space. After delineating these significant challenges, we propose four methodological and epistemological strategies aimed at surmounting them: mobilising translocal knowledge, establishing autonomous spaces for knowledge production, advocating for decolonial methodologies, and fostering a politics of friendship. These strategies serve to decolonise neoliberal academia from the margins, embodying decolonial feminist praxis both academically and politically.
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- author
- Avoine, Priscyll Anctil
and Pacciardi, Agnese
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- translocal knowledge, feminist decolonial praxis, neoliberal academia, language, time, space
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- Globalisation, Societies and Education
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:105016826180
- ISSN
- 1476-7724
- DOI
- 10.1080/14767724.2025.2552790
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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