On Forming Dialogic-Analytic Collaborations: Curating Spaces within/between Universities and Communities

Abstract

This essay theorizes New York University A/P/A Studies’ efforts to develop a participatory process of critical knowledge-building with undergraduate students. In my larger project, I seek to work toward a practical approach to cultivate the embodied knowledges of people to name and critique their omnipresent realities. Building on the work of feminist standpoint and intersectional theories, I seek to forge a productive link between post-positivist realism and dialogic theory. By so doing, I believe mutually beneficial, democratic collaborations can build the knowledges by, for, and of marginalized communities and peoples.1