COM 610R

Wonderings...

What are our goals as academics when engaging in possibilities of social change? Throughout the semester, we have asked ourselves this question again and again, and have not really come to a definitive closure. What does it mean to engage as an academic in questions of social change? What are the possibilities of social change as we speak from within the academy, a site that is constituted within the discursive spaces of power and control? What are the ways in which we can engage with those communities whose voices have otherwise been silenced through the very exercises of expertise that lend us our legitimacy. How do we discuss possibilities of legitimacy and securing legitimacy within academia as subaltern scholars as this very legitimacy creates the "margins" that we seek to engage in?