Embodying Social Justice: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Reflection on the Germ, the Growth, and the Soar!

• In Event: Transgressing the Academy of Apathy: The Inner Plantation, Possibilities for the Public Good

Abstract

The paper works within the broader principles of decolonality to tease through the connection between the embodiment of social justice, the positionality that results, and the importance of this for resisting the inner plantation. Our use of collaborative introspection and collective discussions underscore the importance of our social rootings, the ways in which these serve as critical points of departure through which we reconstruct self-hood, livelihood, and expression within the academy. These are used as a way of centering alternative ways of thinking and doing that advance emancipatory agendas within and beyond higher education institutions.

Authors

• Talia Randa Esnard, The University of the West Indies - St. Augustine

• Lisa Ibrahim-Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers' Association