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Postfoundational Praxis

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This chapter takes a detour from reading images and centers on the author’s collaboration with a community-based organization to co-create an actionable community project. It illustrates how contemporary social theory around images is enacted in a non-academic setting. The chapter begins with a consideration of formulations on the problem of community and a discussion of postfoundational feminist praxis and the difficult work of collaboration across different linguistic registers and pedagogic spaces.

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Notes

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    Lydia is a fictitious name.

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    The term “regime-made traumatic experience” is fused from Azoulay’s (2012) “regime-made disasters” and Regenspan’s (2014) “politically induced trauma.”

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Tavares, H.M. (2016). Postfoundational Praxis. In: Pedagogies of the Image. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7619-6_6

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