ABSTRACT
Pedagogies of Precarity uses creative non-fiction and affect-laden vulnerable writing to reflect on counter-experiences that are often abstracted and decontextualized by precarious academics in shaping methodological changes. Methodologies and new horizons for engaging research often emerge out of fraught encounters within the academy. This chapter reflects on imbalances of power in precarious institutions, in which the author as an early career scholar was subjugated. Focusing on scholars who are thought of as doing liberatory work, such as (male) anti-racist and feminist scholars, the contradiction of praxis is brought to the fore. While this chapter shows that situated knowledge is critical, it also makes the claim that how and in which way situated knowledge shapes methodologies comes from unspoken encounters with powerful academics who cannot be named. This chapter asserts the personal is the political and also the methodological, in ways that are often unseen and impossible to communicate due to the ways in which precarity shapes academic life.
