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- Title
Black and White Women Friend Scholars Transgress Neoliberal Time and Opt for Di-unital Time.
- Authors
Diggs, Rhunette C.; Isgro, Kirsten
- Abstract
This essay looks at the politics and theories of time and chronemics through the theme of "waiting" as a communicative strategy. We are both parents and Communication academicians in different spaces; one of us is African American/Black and the other is European American/white. We entered higher education accepting and unknowingly complicit with the neo-liberal time-clock that framed our decision making toward seeking and achieving institutional ideals of success. To challenge the dichotomous and linear perspective of time, we explore a di-unital approach towards time, which more accurately reflects our activities and relationships. In this research we each respond to an original poem ostensibly about "waiting" as mundane, intentional, reflective, and transformational. Using autoethnography and duo-ethnography, we dialogue about our experiences with time as teacher-scholar-parents and strive to redefine how we measure and value our time, expose inequities that we experience, and transgress the competitive ethic and use of time in higher education. Those who aim to disrupt the oppressive and dehumanizing values of neoliberal time, challenge human obliteration and profit margins over people's lives, and opt for di-unital time.
- Subjects
WOMEN scholars; WHITE women; BLACK women; TIME perspective; NEOLIBERALISM; ETHNOLOGY
- Publication
Feminist Formations, 2022, Vol 34, Issue 1, p78
- ISSN
2151-7363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ff.2022.0003