Transgressive Body, Transgressive Scholarship: A Fragmented Life in So Many Acts

"In my dissertation, I aim to continue and expand on Paulo Freire's ""Pedagogy of Hope,"" going to/through paths and places he never went. I do not believe in the dichotomies of body and mind, theory and action, knowledge and experience, emotion and reason. I believe that ideas are felt first, and then theorized, or imagined. Using my critical imagination, I attempt to create an auto-ethnographic journey, a path, from my own experiences, contextualized in their historical moments. Mixing my own memories with fieldwork, I create stories that 'unify' the traditions of critical pedagogy, participatory action research, and performance studies to stand as a provocative, radical pedagogy of empowerment for oppressed populations. Through this path, I expose the form/forms of oppression. I create my own pedagogy of resistance and attempt to transform what ""knowing"" is. It is a path with which others can imagine a utopian space of freedom from oppression; a path that models resistance for other third world scholars and students of color who want to decolonize the academy in the US and beyond. My hope is to create performances of justice that re-envision egalitarian possibilities for the relationships we have with one another."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Moreira, Claudio

Contributors dc:contributor

• Denzin, Norman K.

• Mass Communications

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3290325

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86587