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Title: Practising refusal as relating otherwise: engagements with knowledge production, ‘activist’ praxis, and borders
Author(s): Spathopoulou, Aila
Meier, Isabel
Contact Email: aila.spathopoulou@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: practices of refusal
relating otherwise
knowledge production
'activist' praxis
borders
Issue Date: 18-Dec-2023
Date Deposited: 31-Jan-2025
Citation: Spathopoulou A & Meier I (2023) Practising refusal as relating otherwise: engagements with knowledge production, ‘activist’ praxis, and borders. <i>Fennia - International Journal of Geography</i>, 201 (2), pp. 140-153. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.137167
Abstract: This special issue explores the concept of refusal through academic and personal reflections, conversation, poetry, activism, and performative practice. In this introduction, we first situate practices of refusal within very specific locations of struggle and then frame these refusals as a practice of relating otherwise. Relating otherwise is a ‘mode of engagement’ – not a theory or method – that shapes relationships with ourselves, each other, and the world. The introduction goes on to discuss how refusal practices engage with (1) decolonial modes of knowing, (2) embodied, situated, and relational ways of meaning-making, and (3) the undoing of existing dichotomies within ‘activist’ practice.
DOI Link: 10.11143/fennia.137167
Rights: © 2023 by the author. This open access article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Licence URL(s): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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