Practicing Epistemic Disobedience through Embodying Slow Photography
Abstract
Academic discussion about epistemic disobedience tends to stay at the historical, conceptual, and theoretical level. Few studies discuss how to delink, and who has the power to practice epistemic disobedience. This article, along with the photo exhibition, provides an example of how a doctoral student from the Global South at a Western higher education institution is reclaiming her power for epistemic disobedience by delinking herself from the official knowledge and epistemology situated in her doctoral program. Specifically, the Slow Photography project aims to observe all photos in my smartphone and reflect on the deeper meaning embedded in those photos. I use a website, https://slowphoto.weebly.com/, as a digital space to organize these slow photos, record my feelings, and materialize my embodying process. The name of Slow Photography comes from my childhood memory about photography. Back then, taking photos was slow, waiting to see the photos was slow, and the process of appreciating the photos was slow. In an academy that values speed and production, my Slow Photography project is giving me the means to look differently at what counts as a “productive” qualitative inquiry process and what counts as an educational researcher training process. Throughout this paper, I have included several photos from my Slow Photography website as a mini photo exhibition. Since I started my doctoral program, I have always been drawn to the wildflowers that escaped from the fence. In these photos, wildflowers do not always respect the human-made boundary of wire fences. They are attempting, disrupting, and blooming.
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Hadeer, Reyila, "Practicing Epistemic Disobedience through Embodying Slow Photography" (2021). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 11.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2021/2021/11
Practicing Epistemic Disobedience through Embodying Slow Photography
Stream C
Academic discussion about epistemic disobedience tends to stay at the historical, conceptual, and theoretical level. Few studies discuss how to delink, and who has the power to practice epistemic disobedience. This article, along with the photo exhibition, provides an example of how a doctoral student from the Global South at a Western higher education institution is reclaiming her power for epistemic disobedience by delinking herself from the official knowledge and epistemology situated in her doctoral program. Specifically, the Slow Photography project aims to observe all photos in my smartphone and reflect on the deeper meaning embedded in those photos. I use a website, https://slowphoto.weebly.com/, as a digital space to organize these slow photos, record my feelings, and materialize my embodying process. The name of Slow Photography comes from my childhood memory about photography. Back then, taking photos was slow, waiting to see the photos was slow, and the process of appreciating the photos was slow. In an academy that values speed and production, my Slow Photography project is giving me the means to look differently at what counts as a “productive” qualitative inquiry process and what counts as an educational researcher training process. Throughout this paper, I have included several photos from my Slow Photography website as a mini photo exhibition. Since I started my doctoral program, I have always been drawn to the wildflowers that escaped from the fence. In these photos, wildflowers do not always respect the human-made boundary of wire fences. They are attempting, disrupting, and blooming.
