Abstract
Feminism teaches how power works and circulates through our often-unquestioned everyday practices. Since becoming a professor, I have committed myself to this feminist teaching by demystifying--and reimagining--habituated practices, relations, and expectations in higher education that produce and are produced through cis-hetero-patriarchal capitalist White supremacy. Since literature reviews and citation practices are core materials scholars work with, I invite doctoral students to consider different ways these materials can be engaged in efforts to craft transgressive knowledges and worlds through our research. In this article, I describe an assignment designed to disrupt hegemonic patriarchal inheritances in the conventions of writing literature reviews and habituated citational practices. The assignment was prepared for a first-year doctoral methodology course, and I share how I came into a more capacious relation to the feminist potentialities within the genre of the literature review through living the assignment with the students.
Recommended Citation
McDermott, Mairi
(2024)
"Teaching Citation Politics through Literature Review Topographies: Towards Cultivating Relational Writing Practices,"
Feminist Pedagogy: Vol. 4:
Iss.
4, Article 6.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/vol4/iss4/6
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