Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

The exclusionary nature of academic philosophy has been well-documented. Not only do disabled and otherwise marginalized philosophers find it difficult to enter the field, but the combination of the current neoliberal structures of the university and the hegemonic nature of disciplinary norms are pushing out those of us who have made it past the threshold. However, philosophy of disability, using disability as method, allows us to trouble concepts such as competence and epistemic authority in ways that challenge how we pursue research and to whom our scholarship is accountable. In this paper, I argue for the necessity to practice diverse types of scholarship to resist these disempowering structures; specifically, I propose podcasting as a type of recreational scholarship, that is, a scholarly praxis that nourishes instead of depleting by embracing playfulness as a methodology. Cripping academic work through the medium of podcasting allows us to understand the liberatory possibilities of crip authorship for the discipline of philosophy and beyond. Through the lens of Maria Lugones’s concept of playfulness and of C. Thi Nguyen’s framework of striving play, I show how podcasting can be a recreational scholarship praxis.

Metagnosis, as a text, is an exercise in metanarration: Throughout the book, Danielle Spencer pulls together medical and medicalized storytelling and self-identification accounts to make sense of a plot device that had remained unnamed. "Metagnosis," as coined by Spencer, refers to the dynamic process of learning later in life that one has a medical condition or that part of oneself can now be medicalized. For example, Spencer recounts how "discovering" her lack of stereopsis as an adult affected her understanding of medicine and of her own identity. In a broader sense, metagnosis refers to learning any information that causes one to question one's self-understanding and, indeed, our understanding of knowledge in...

Our paper focuses on the philosophical perspective of constructing active caring masculinities agencies in the contemporary feminist discourse. Since contemporary feminisms are not simply anti-essentialist, but more importantly, polyphonic, we believe that it is far more appropriate to talk about ‘masculinities’ as opposed to ‘masculinity’. We are proposing a revised understanding of the self in which the self is not defined primarily in the dichotomous, categorical one-other relationship. We use Paul Ricoeur’s anthropology to describe the self as relational, as well as Joan Tronto’s recent perspective on care which fits well with a Ricoeurian reconstruction of the self. We also engage with Raewyn Connell’s discourse on masculinity and more specifically, hegemonic masculinity. By using ‘caring masculine agencies’ as an alternative to ‘masculinity as reactive anti-femininity’, we are proposing a paradigm shift that hopefully is flexible enough to respect the dynamism inherent to any act of gender-identification.