Meeting the Good White (Neo)Liberal: Toward Critical Qualitative Praxis Through Anzaldúa’s Stages of Conocimiento

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 9:00 am
  In Roundtable Session: Turning Inward: Examining Self Through Qualitative Inquiry (Table 9)

Abstract

Drawing upon Anzaldúa’s seven stages of conocimiento, the purpose of this proposed paper demonstrates an autoethnographic meeting of ignored, neoliberal dimensions of my professional self worthy of disruption. More specifically, this proposed autoethnographic paper will unpack three professional episodes of neoliberal knowing/being/doing in pedagogy and inquiry, and how my own process of des/conocimiento illuminated personal aspects of insidiousness, informed by an intertwined relationship to whiteness and the neoliberal academy. This proposed paper exposes the unconscious enactment and embodiment of such exclusionary and oppressive “shadows” (Bhattacharya & Boveda, 2020), reflecting a singular call to dismantle the exclusionary and oppressive structures within the neoliberal academy.

Author

• Angela Kraemer-Holland, Kansas State University