Feminist Praxis Revisited: Critical Reflections on University-Community Engagement

Abstract

Contributors reflect on the social-justice-oriented approaches to community-based learning in Women and Gender Studies, long viewed as foundational to the field, and ask how feminist praxis is being impacted by the mainstreaming of university-community engagement and by an increasingly depoliticized non-profit sector. Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: Learning Elsewhere? Critical Reflections on University-Community Engagement as Feminist Praxis; FEMINIST PRAXIS / FOR CREDIT / UNDER NEOLIBERALISM; 2 Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and University-Community Engagement: What Sorts of Encounters with Difference Are Our Institutions Prioritizing?; 3 Feminist Praxis and Community Service-Learning in Canada's Changing Non-Profit Sector; 4 There's More Than One Way to Save a Baby: Navigating Activism and Anti-Racism; 5 Community-Engaged Pedagogy, Sexual Violence, and Neoliberal Governance CRITICAL APPROACHES TO PRAXIS / IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM6 Relations with the Dead? Ethics of Feminist Memorialization in Service-Learning; 7 Quick to the Draw: Shooting from the Hip in Feminist NGOs; 8 Evaluating the Effects of Community-Based Praxis Learning Placements on Campus and Community Organizations in the ""Doing Feminist Theory Through Digital Video"" Project; 9 Interrogating Feminist Praxis Inside the Classroom: ""Storying Up"" Race, Indigeneity, and Alliance-Building; 10 The De-Territorialization of Knowledge Production in Canadian Women's and Gender Studies Programs 11 Afterword: Feeling ElsewhereReferences; About the Authors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z