Making Good Trouble: Becomingwith Critical Inquiry

• In Event: Convergences: Locating Advocacy and Justice

Abstract

In this paper, we think with John Lewis and Donna Haraway to conceptualize a methodology of “good trouble.” Making good trouble, as described by Civil Rights Leader and Congressman John Lewis is doing “something out of the ordinary,” making “a way out of no way.” Troubling is about how we relate as we live and become together in the world. We use the concept of troubling as a theoretical framing that simultaneously draws attention to in(un)justice and seeks new modes of relating. Making good trouble became a practice of critical inquiry that stirred us to question cultural and societal norms that are often assumed to be natural and immutable, as well as our co-implication within them.

Authors

• Maureen Alice Flint, University of Georgia

• Whitney Toledo, University of Georgia - Athens