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As the summer has turned into fall, I have been co-teaching the intro historiography seminar for history & #histSTM graduate students. My mind has kept returning to @myrnperez's introduction to "Diversifying the Discipline or Disciplining Diversity?" https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709484 1/6
"Different bodies bring with them different intuitions; experiences of sexism birthed feminist epistemology; the realities of the postcolonial state opened up the idea of decolonizing. The gift of critical epistemologies is the ability for others… 2/6
…to be trained in these intuitions: because of queer theory, straight people can have an expanded understanding of love & sex; because of critical race theory, those who have become white in the West can gain some insight into the legacy of the legal architectures of blackness…
... These 'training(s) of the imagination,' as Gayatri Spivak terms them, are, at their best, not appropriations of the stories and identities of others. Rather, they are a rigorous exercise in the cultivation of empathy.” https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709484 4/6
With additional contributions by @myrnperez & Projit Mukharji, as well as Elise K. Burton, @rianoseb, Terence Keel, Emily Merchant, @wmmuigai, Ahmed Ragab, & @SumanSeth42: Thanks, all! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709484 #histSTM 5/6
This is such an important conversation for #histSTM scholars to be wrestling with right now. I hope this collection of thoughtful & provocative essays (co-edited by @myrnperez & Projit Mukharji) is widely assigned in historiography seminars this year: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709484 6/6
