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Priyadharshini, Esther 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9509-2865
(2024)
Speculative method-making for feminist futures: Insights from black feminist science and Afrofuturist work.
Australian Feminist Studies, 38 (115-116).
pp. 14-31.
ISSN 0816-4649
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Abstract
How can black feminist science and Afrofuturism inform the crafting of methods for future research? Can their strategies for visioning alternative worlds help shape a methodological scaffold to guide the doing of empirical speculative research? The article engages with these questions while drawing on the author’s experience on a youth futures project. The article identifies the challenges of empirical, speculative projects–the difficulties for participants in breaking away from the dead weight of the present and the difficulties for researchers in engendering research that allows newness–surprising and radical imaginaries of the future–to emerge. By exploring relevant ideas from the worlds of creative Afrofuturism and black feminist science, the article proposes a set of methodological prompts that may help understand and address these challenges. These prompts are also an attempt to construct a distinctive intellectual and ethical compass to guide everyday research practice, and are offered in a spirit of experimentation, to be used, amended, or selectively ignored by fellow speculative researchers. The intention is to support a form of speculative research that does not foreclose on the radical and liberatory possibilities of futurity advanced by black feminist creativity and scholarship.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Journal Issue: Creating Feminist Futures: Research Methodologies for New Times. Guest Editors: Rebecca Coleman and Kat Jungnickel |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | afrofuturism,black feminist science,engendering new futures,methodological framework,speculative research,gender studies ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3318 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Critical Cultural Studies In Education |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Apr 2024 16:30 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2024 01:41 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/94870 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08164649.2024.2335631 |
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