What are the discursive risks of this archive?

Archive Ethnography: Conceptualization

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Kim Fortun
June 5, 2022
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There are many and no-doubt ever developing discursive risks in this archive project-- 

-- As in all projects focused on vulnerable communities, especially  those designed to draw out sources and cascading effects of harm, there is a risk of overshadowing community strengths and potentials. 

-- Given escalating public and government attention to environmental injustice, there is a growing risk of rhetorical and conceptual lock-in -- that this project and archive needs to creatively and proactively work against. 

Prerna Srigyan
June 4, 2022
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  • Critiquing education as inherently disciplinary and carceral can undercut public investment in education or imagination of different educational futures. On the other hand, it is through such a critique that a different imagination becomes possible. 
  • Critiquing science as inherently extractive and exploitative can undermine its immense aspirational, aesthetic, and profound implications 
  • Restricting what could count as “science” and what could count as “education”
  • Reinforcing the silo-ing of disciplines and spaces of education
  • Reproducing cultural and place-based essentialised, especially in discourses of culturally-relevant and place-based science pedagogies 
  • Overdetermination of the archive by “official” teaching material and teaching histories
  • conservative voices and institutions on education in settings where they might be prominent and influential stakeholders
James Adams
June 3, 2022
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This archive is intended to expose its own discursive risks… which is a carrot on a stick. That is, though it will also inevitably reproduce them (there is always an outside to thought), the archive is intended to encourage a practice of looping attention back onto its own “unthought” aspects. It is intended to put these discursive risks to work! To use them to as opportunities for recognizing the way our categories of thought, speech, and experience continue to reflect the stratification and sedimentation of power relations. 

In seeking to continually pull the rug from under one’s feet, one discursive risk could be paralysis… of oneself or of others. Which means care must be taken not to deterritorialize too much, too deeply, too quickly. Care and strategy are paramount. 

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