Embodied Responses: Conceptualizing the Somatic With Campus Staff and Faculty

• In Event: Examining the Now, Dreaming Toward the Future: Race, Temporality, and Capacity Building

Abstract

This conceptual paper centers embodiment within higher education and the experiences of campus staff and faculty. More specifically, through integrating across bodies of literature, including from transnational feminism, disability studies, education, and scholars of color, this paper explores the somatic ways individuals working at colleges and universities are impacted by the structural and systemic conditions, contexts, and oppression. In doing so, the authors utilized a dialogic process and knowledge tracing to reinfuse the body, our bodies, into what has been traditionally a separated feelings-vs.-rationale scholarly arena. In doing so, we challenge white, cis-hetero, ableist, Eurocentric constructions of knowledge and align to the larger body of scholarship from communities of color and feminist groups in how the body remembers.

Authors

• Samantha Silberstein, University of North Carolina - Wilmington

• Katherine S. Cho, Loyola University Chicago