- Title
- Mother-Scholar failures: ella habla por la entrepierna
- Creator
- Motta, Sara C.
- Relation
- Writing Saved Me: When the International Gets Personal p. 157-171
- Relation
- Creative Interventions in Global Politics
- Relation
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370900429_Mother-Scholar_failures_ella_habla_por_la_entrepierna/link/6468374c9533894cac7e9b02/download?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7InBhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiIsInByZXZpb3VzUGFnZSI6bnVsbCwic3ViUGFnZSI6bnVsbH19
- Publisher
- Rowman and Littlefield
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- I am playful here not pained I am irreverent I want to make love to failure I am in-relation, always in-relation, mother-scholar otherwise What happens when mother-scholars speak of the exclusions, elisions, splitting, invisibilising and exhaustion? What happens when a thread of the unspeakable conditions of devaluation and dispossession of all that is feminised and racialised upon which the university is reproduced is made present in our weave of theoretical-conceptual-political registers of speech? What logics and (ir)rationalities of the entire edifice of colonial-modern (neoliberalised) project of the university and as state are exposed, and what (m)other (im)possibilities of onto-epistemological projects of (education as) life-nurturing become emergent and touchable to the skin? When we fail as (m)other-scholars, - and we always-already and necessarily fail to perform to the registers of excellence, success, and mastery, the faultlines of carelessness and/as eradication of feminised and racialised flesh (Cruz, 2001; Hartman, 2008; Motta, 2019, 2022a); is exposed for its absurd yet macabre (ir)reality. Such failures are not necessarily relief filled and intimacy cultivating (although at times, in and as our out-of-time rhythms and relationalities they can be (Motta and Davies, 2022; Motta and Amsler, 2019; Motta and Bermudez, 2019)), yet they make visible the unmarked conditions of (non)being and separation from racialised flesh of the ideal White scholar and scholarship. They allow a dropping into (m)other temporalities and spatialities in relation, the telling of other(ed) (m)other stories, the bringing to thought, to speech and visibility ourselves (m)otherwise (Motta, 2018; Motta, 2022a), and the creation of emergent yet multiple epistemological (political) grounds of becoming enfleshed through the medicinal mysteries of our (Black/Indigenous) bodies and/as territories (Motta, 2021, 2022b; 2023).
- Subject
- mother-scholar; failures; logic; (ir)rationalities
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518783
- Identifier
- uon:57380
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781538185193
- Language
- eng
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