Short Abstract

Starting from a central feminist insight that HOW we do things is already a crucial part of WHAT we do, we map in this panel practices that unsettle institutionalized inequalities and imagine more caring, collaborative, and joyful academic futures with specific attention to the extra labor involved.

Long Abstract

This roundtable begins from a central feminist insight: HOW we do things is already a crucial part of WHAT we do. Our practices - whether in research, teaching, or the everyday rhythms and routines of academic life - are never neutral. They often reproduce the very structures of inequality (classist, racist, sexist, ableist, extractivist..) that we claim to critique.

We invite stories, reflections, and analyses that interrogate practices of intervention within institutionalized forms of knowledge production, research routines and daily academic life. Particular space and attention will be given to the stamina and extra work required to resist entrenched norms: the labor of building new forms of collaboration in research and teaching, of reimagining teaching and mentoring, of structuring everyday academic life in ways that prioritize care, accessibility, equity and joy.

In creating a space for reflection on fossilized problems, failed interventions, and invisibleized work we try to pinpoint when, where, and how our practices are reproducing what we theoretically proclaim to have overcome. What forms of complicity are embedded in our daily academic routines, and what possibilities emerge when we attempt to do things differently? What kinds of work - intellectual, emotional, administrative, collective - are needed to sustain alternative ways of being in, and doing academia? How do we recognize, value, and share this work without overburdening those already marginalized, and without reproducing more extractivism?

We invite participants to contribute stories about experiments, new routines, small steps, failing and trying anew, tinkering and stamina that illuminate both the challenges and the possibilities of doing research, teaching and daily academic life otherwise. The aim is to map practices that unsettle institutionalized inequalities and imagine more caring, collaborative, and joyful academic futures, without claiming an heroic stance in control of the outcome.

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