World Travelling

Fernández, J., Hisatake, K., & Nguyen, A. (2020). Decolonial feminism as reflexive praxis: Lugones’s “world”-travelling as stories of friendship in academia. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 41(1), 12-34. Decolonial Feminism as Reflexive Praxis: Lugones's "World"-Travelling as Stories of Friendship in Academia.

• Methodology for world traveling:

  • Reflexive storytelling and building friendships among women of color in academia.

  • Utilization of vignettes of friendship to explore the intersection of world traveling and decolonial feminism.

  • Reflections on home, playfulness, travel, and knowledge production within academia.

• Friendship as pathway to decolonial feminist coalition:

  • Recentering notions of home by considering struggles of intersectionality and indigenous dispossession.

  • Home as a unifying concept and a tool for decolonial feminist coalition building.

  • Proposal of reflective storytelling as a methodology for world traveling.

• Authors' backgrounds:

  • One author influenced by her mother's experiences with colonial and wartime violence.

  • Another author is Japanese from Hawaii.

  • The third author is the daughter of migrant farm workers, interested in observing, listening, and imagining utopias.

• World traveling vs tourism:

  • World traveling as a necessity and survival strategy, not mere tourism.

  • Importance of considering what individuals are traveling toward or leaving behind.

  • World traveling through storytelling, gossip, and hanging out, listening to fragmented stories to understand colonial difference.

• Agonistic play vs hanging out:

  • Agonistic play characterized by competition, domination, and erasure of other worlds.

  • Hanging out as a more open, multi-directional, and relational form of interaction, emphasizing listening and sharing without a predetermined objective.

• Playfulness as resistance:

  • Playfulness as behaviors, actions, and expressions rooted in openness to ambiguity.

  • Embracing failure, finding ease and connection through playful interactions.

  • Importance of reassessing one's travels and acknowledging the possibility of only seeing what one wants to see.

• Challenges for women of color in academia:

  • Chastisement for bending or questioning rules, viewed with arrogance or shame when seeking connection and acceptance.

  • Need for world traveling with openness to critique, embracing playfulness, and resisting oppressive norms.

• Building coalitions through world traveling:

  • World traveling as a methodological tool against colonial ways of seeing and hearing.

  • Importance of intentional action, playfulness, and inviting others into one's world to bridge differences and resist colonial gaze.

• Cultivating co-constructed praxis (from Lyle, E.):

  • Development of a program at a private university focusing on meaningful learning and leveraging technology.

  • Emphasis on relationality and responsiveness in curriculum development, aiming for cultural inclusivity and student feedback.

  • Commitment to coconstructed praxis, shared ownership of learning, and pedagogical enactment.