Vulnerable relational knowing that matters
本文探讨脆弱关系性认知,通过两位女性主义学者裸露学术身体的故事,展示脆弱性如何促进学术中的具身关系性认知,对关注学术工作替代模式的研究者有用。
Abstract This paper explores vulnerable relational knowing, and in it we open up our own embodied habits and experiences as feminist academics. We discuss how displaying our academic bodies as naked, both symbolically and physically, enhances and appreciates—instead of hiding—vulnerability. We also discuss how our academic bodies entangle with a range of more‐than‐human creatures and material surroundings to highlight the multispecies and material nature of vulnerable relational knowing. Two detailed stories, “ Intimate sharing of academic knowledge: A recumbent study circle ” and “ Keropirtti: A place and space to work differently ” provide unique examples of the enactment of alternative ways of working in academia, and their analysis demonstrates the potential of vulnerability for embodied relational knowing in academia, which has, to date, been commonly analyzed in the context of writing.