Things I Talked About in ‘Supervision’ Today
1. Nancy Fraser’s visit and writing some questions for her.
2. Livelihood struggles being defined and maintained through collectivity, because the autonomous projects of the self can’t take place in the same way when hunger, homelessness and police/military repression are such proximate threats. This could frame discussion of the difference between rich and poor activism within the ‘autonomy-in-solidarity’ of the global justice movement: i.e. that activists in rich locales privelege autonomy whereas activists in poor locales privelege solidarity. The importance of ‘the Marxist story’ in livelihood struggles. Treating Marxism as a narrative that gives form. delegates roles and tasks etc (particularly evident in the MST and the overlay of liberation theology).
3. The comparative role of leadership and charisma.
4. The concept of ‘reflexivity’ being a bit bollocksy and potentially politically neutral and not how people generally talk about their experiences.
5. My understandings and uses of and ideas about aesthetic reflexivity and social movements needing to be further situated in/bounded by the general literature on reflexivity and my reservations about using the notion as in point 4.
6. Therefore writing my seminar paper on how I am using/working with/working through reflexivity.
7. Therefore also really spelling out what I mean by aesthetic reflexivity in my conference paper.
8. Consciousness re gaps in the literature re feminist theory and activism and living with the tensions of activism - making this part of my thesis.
9. Looking after myself in Brazil. Drinking caipirinhas whenever possible.