Epistemic modalities of racialised knowledge production in the Swedish academy

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ID2148152
AutoresSuruchi Thapar-Björkert (0000-0003-1542-8416), Fataneh Farahani (0000-0001-5427-4152, Stockholm University)
Ano2019
Volume42
Fascículo16
Páginas214-232
Data de publicação2019-12-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2019.1649440
OpenAlexW2972678266
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas64

The central aim of this article is to examine the impact of racialization processes within the Swedish academic community in order to understand what kinds of knowledge productions and knowing subject positions are rendered (im)possible in everyday academic interactions. Through autoethnography as an alternative methodological entry point, we analyse our embodied racialised experiences of navigating through historically white universities within a geo-political context framed through a supposedly "colour blind" and "post-racial society". Our analytical reasoning is presented through several steps. First, we discuss how academic habitus and affiliations maintained in various scientific forums is informed through established, racialised norms and if/whose knowledge is marginalized, devalued, or/and is included due to the reductive representation. Second, we discuss how an uncultivated sense of epistemic entitlement, within different academic settings and communities, constructs indisputable knowing subjects and generates (un)earned (un)comfortable zones. Third, we argue how managing the existing accent ceiling becomes a mode for navigating the norms of whiteness

Aesthetics · Autoethnography · Context (archaeology · Entitlement (fair division · Epistemology · Ethnography · Habitus · Knowledge production · Race (biology · Racialization · Sociology · Undoing · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Gender Studies · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Psychology