Co-Creating Third Spaces: Global South and BIPOC Scholars

Group Submission Type: Formal Panel Session

Proposal

Purpose: This panel will explore and analyze the lived experience of scholars and academics from the Global South and BIPOC who have professionally migrated to academic institutions, currently located in the Global North. The aim of the panel is to understand how they co-create third spaces (Bhabha, 1994), that is, the “in between” spaces inside and outside academia that keep them hopeful, social justice oriented, and visible. Methods: The panel will apply a variety of methodologies to autoethnography, narrative, storytelling, historical, comparative case study, self-study, and collective memory methodologies. These methodologies reflect the range of critical methodologies and research methods proposed by individual authors, using comparative, and cross-national perspectives. Selected Findings: By co-creating space for scholars and academics allying with the Global South/BIPOC we believe we can enrich learning about cross cultural collaborations between scholars discursively separated between the North-South divide, uplift each other, and demonstrate a spirit of hopeful bonding. Potential Significance: Our proposed panel, therefore, explores our strengths, challenges, and opportunities often produced out of struggle with institutional stability in the Global North, essentialized diaspora performances, and discrimination. Our panel will offer an opportunity for academics from the Global South along with their Global North alliances to showcase their collective understanding of third spaces. This third space among academics that is itself a conglomerate of multiple subject positions from the Global South and indigenous world is richly intersectional, enriched by various additional subject positions informed by experiences of migration, race, poverty, linguistic differences, emotional burdens and gender-oppression. These multiple, overlapping, and liminal subject positions that also characterize notions about the developing world, are therefore not just predicated on race.

Sub Unit

• Committee: UREAG (Under-represented Racial, Ethnic, and Ability Groups)

Chair

• Staci B Martin, Portland State University

Individual Presentations

• Convening Intentional Spaces To Promote Hope and Scholarship - Staci B Martin, Portland State University

• Confronting Power Asymmetry in Knowledge Production: Lessons from Intercultural Collaborative Research - Jonathan Ngeh

• Queering a Coordinator’s Diversity, Equity, and Illusion (DEI) Work in Academe: Disappointments, Self-Deceits, and Hopes Disclosed - Oscar Fernandez, Portland State University

• Academic survival mechanisms among Global South women scholars in Germany - Julten Abdelhalim

Discussant

• Staci B Martin, Portland State University