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What counts as 'activism'? Am I an activist?

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What counts as 'activism'? Am I an activist?

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What are our criteria for contributing to liberatory struggle? What techniques and practices can we build to hold ourselves and one another accountable?

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What are our criteria for contributing to liberatory struggle? What techniques and practices can we build to hold ourselves and one another accountable?

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What practices can we adopt to foresee the consequences of our interventions? How do we respond to unintended consequences and harm?

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What practices can we adopt to foresee the consequences of our interventions? How do we respond to unintended consequences and harm?

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Translation, story telling, militant (Hela)

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Translation, story telling, militant (Hela)

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How do we communicate our politics to others and work with conflict and difference?

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How do we communicate our politics to others and work with conflict and difference?

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...requires networks, publications, connections to editors, etc. --- in turns requires strategies and strategizing to support liberation

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...requires networks, publications, connections to editors, etc. --- in turns requires strategies and strategizing to support liberation

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Re-working concepts from our discipline e.g. 'accounting' as an intervention

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Re-working concepts from our discipline e.g. 'accounting' as an intervention

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Acting and strategising locally - own institutions, small networks of institutions across a region

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Acting and strategising locally - own institutions, small networks of institutions across a region

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We can be inspired by the work of others and not see the problems/dynamics manifest in the same way in our own institution

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Approaching intervention as 'contaminating' our discipline, institutions and communities

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Approaching intervention as 'contaminating' our discipline, institutions and communities

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Negotiating visibility and invisibility as a strategy for impact and survival

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Negotiating visibility and invisibility as a strategy for impact and survival

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Working with the opportunities of one's own context re: personal risk e.g. taking a more public platform online

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Working with the opportunities of one's own context re: personal risk e.g. taking a more public platform online

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Is there more space for academic activist intervention and voice today? what does this offer us? what does it indicate?

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Is there more space for academic activist intervention and voice today? what does this offer us? what does it indicate?

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Many streams of thinking re: decolonising - rooted in different histories, stakes and strategies

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Many streams of thinking re: decolonising - rooted in different histories, stakes and strategies

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Create space for plurality of different political struggles and strategies but not at the expense of others

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Create space for plurality of different political struggles and strategies but not at the expense of others

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Use privileges subversively to access spaces, engage in pedagogy

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Use privileges subversively to access spaces, engage in pedagogy

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Mughal, F. (2021). When global meets local: Action learning, positionality and postcolonialism. Management Learning, 52(1), 65-85.

Gloria Wekker White Innnocence https://www.dukeupress.edu/white-innocence

Dar et al. The business school is racist: Act up!

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1350508420928521

Entrepreneurship as a Solution to Social Issues: Fostering New Insights and a Research Agenda (session 1108) https://2021.aom.org/meetings/virtual/rDgfKNJuHhHkmTZbY

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?" White Innocence explains why white Dutch people seem unable to grasp the racism of Zwarte Piet: Assured of their own social progressivism, they can a priori think and therefore do no wrong. . . . ? Wekker concludes her work with a plea for 'another "embarrassment of riches,"' for acknowledging the racism staring us in the face. In the United States, we might start by recognizing that there is, and always has been, no more audacious identity politics than white identity politics, as Trump and his white-supremacist ilk gleefully demonstrate. At least the illusion of innocence has been stripped away. Or perhaps not?"
- Nick Barr Clingan, The Nation

" White Innocence exposes how Dutch racism is infused with classism, sexism, and homophobia in discussions of everyday racism that includes [Wekker's] own personal exoticization as a child and criminalization as an adult, TV talk shows and films, experiences of mixed-race families, white gay liberation that constitutes Dutch homonationalism . . . and the 'siloing' of gender and race/ethnicity in politics and academics that makes intersectional policy and scholarship impossible. In doing so, Wekker reveals the very real personal consequences for people of color when their very existence is in service of white people." - Melissa F. Weiner, Journal of Anthropological Research

"Wekker's book-length study of white innocence is untimely. If timeliness means being appropriate, and exhibiting the norms of propriety, then White Innocence speaks to an interlocutor - the white Dutch self - who would find the book inappropriate, and confronting. And that is precisely the book's aim. . . . In the Dutch context, as Wekker clearly shows, it is precisely a denial of colonial history, with its attendant intellectual, affective and discursive consequences, that marks the contemporary multicultural scene of politics. The book then is not repeating an argument in an all-too-familiar context. Rather, it is inserting a critical analysis into a national context which has strenuously denied any implication in the dark history of colonialism and racism." - Sudeep Dasgupta, Krisis

" White Innocence provides a welcome and thought-provoking impetus to think more acutely about the long-term impacts of imperialism, as well as about the interrelations between colonies and metropole." - Bart Luttikhuis, History: Reviews of New Books

" White Innocence offers a critical way of viewing contemporary interactions of whiteness with 'othered' bodies. . . . Wekker carefully and ingenuously heightens a reader's awareness of everyday micro- and macro-occurrences of white innocence." - Jakki Forester, Wagadu

" White Innocence makes a significant contribution to the field of critical whiteness studies by examining the role of race, especially whiteness, and the legacy of colonialism in the present-day Netherlands." - Shannon Sullivan, philoSOPHIA

" White Innocence is an enticing invitation to confront the contradictions of Dutch discourse on race, colonialism and violence. . . . Wekker's work is of vital relevance for those willing to unlearn the legacy of
colonialism." - Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, European Journal of Women's Studies

"This book has been a long time coming. . . . An exemplary work of critical scholarship." - Paul Mepschen, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Speaking to her compatriots, Wekker aims to demonstrate, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the prevalence of race as an effective distinction and to lay bare the structures that allow its disavowal. . . . Side by side with the careful and detail-rich case for the significance of race as an indispensable analytical category, the book's other key academic contribution is to be found in the compelling argument that Wekker makes for understanding racial politics through a postcolonial lens." - Nitzan Shoshan, PoLAR

" White Innocence is a major contribution that provides us with new and distinct methods for investigating the cultural archives of colonialism, showing how they are at once national archives that include written documents and accumulated impressions, encounters, and experiences. Gloria Wekker takes the trouble of creating an itinerary of expressions of whiteness as innocence. It is a powerful itinerary. This book will reach out to readers, and draw them in." - Sara Ahmed

"Refreshingly innovative, conceptually sophisticated, and compellingly argued. . . . The outcome of a lifetime spent in the theoretical and political trenches, White Innocence breaks entirely new ground." - M. Jacqui Alexander

"Gloria Wekker's patient anatomization of the Dutch racial order is a major contribution to the growing global conversation about whiteness and its overcoming. Her authoritative survey of the willful innocence that underpins racism in the Netherlands should be widely read and studied." - Paul Gilroy

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" White Innocence explains why white Dutch people seem unable to grasp the racism of Zwarte Piet: Assured of their own social progressivism, they can a priori think and therefore do no wrong. . . . ? Wekker concludes her work with a plea for 'another "embarrassment of riches,"' for acknowledging the racism staring us in the face.

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How to engage in activism without being exposed? Being a good person? Being active on Twitter? Developing solidarity and support? Influencing politics within my institution or thru associations (as AOM or QRCA)? 

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How to engage in activism without being exposed? Being a good person? Being active on Twitter? Developing solidarity and support? Influencing politics within my institution or thru associations (as AOM or QRCA)? 

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How does one engage in activism but survive within academia? e.g. career 'currency' versus risk

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How does one engage in activism but survive within academia? e.g. career 'currency' versus risk

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How much currency do we need to secure our survival?
For whom are the rules 'bent'?
Are there ways in which we can use rules to intervene in the institutions themselves? Liberal mechanisms and governance structures

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Use the rules and tools against the institutions themselves, knowing that the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house (as Audre Lorde put it)

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Taking seriously the need for sustenance and nourishment of those doing transformatory work

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Taking seriously the need for sustenance and nourishment of those doing transformatory work

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Can we use our access to institutional funding and re-route into transformatory work? e.g. small grants
Using concepts such as 'impact' 'quality'

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Writing
Lecturing/pedagogy
Building networks - connecting people to one another
Impact - facilitating dialogues outside the university, action research
Editorial roles - opening doors, legitimsing agendas and ideas. Supporting sharing and reviewing

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Giving special attention for people in underprivileged positions, be they students, colleagues or friends.

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Giving special attention for people in underprivileged positions, be they students, colleagues or friends.