Audacity unchained: decolonizing variegated geographies. A commentary on Yvonne Underhill-Sem's ‘The audacity of the ocean: Gendered politics of positionality in the Pacific’
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In her piece 'Audacity of the Ocean', Yvonne Underhill-Sem offers a meditation on the fluidity, groundswell, and power of feminist critiques from within spaces of indigeneity. From the vantage point of scholarship and activism in the Pacific, Underhill-Sem describes how the relational indigeneity of "large ocean" spaces and social networks generate "a feminist Oceanic audacity of embodied engagement [that] offer[s] dynamic and gendered intellectual agility" (Underhill-Sem 2020: 1). Interpreting the Pacific -- and in passing, the postcolonial Caribbean -- as simultaneously grounding and in movement (constantly requiring travel, encounters, interactions) leads to an open-ended, flexible conceptualization of power, difference, knowledge production, and social relations. Out of these radically situated and mobile relations, contextualized knowledge is produced across both longstanding and newly emerging difference by means of continuously re-calibrated and reiteratively established exchanges.
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1467-9493