Sad News
While I have just a had a lovely easter with my family, I have been saddened to hear of the death of Julie Graham, an academic and writer who, along with Kathy Gibson (writing as J.K. Gibson-Graham) has had a big influence on my work. The world has lost an inspiration.
In tribute, here is a couple of my favourite quotes from J.K. Gibson Graham. Just recently I taped the first one to my computer to remind me as I write to always look for openings, what they have also termed “glimmers of possibility” :
“What if we were to accept that the goal of theory is not to extend knowledge by confirming what we already know, that the world is a place of economic domination, conflict and oppression? What if we asked theory instead to help us see openings, to enable us to find happiness, to provide a space of freedom and possibility?”
“This is, we believe, the stuff of a postdevelopment discourse- a mode of thinking that is generative, uncertain, hopeful, and yet fully grounded in an understanding of the material and discursive violences and promises of the long history of development interventions.”
For more information on Julie Graham is here – http://forjuliegraham.wordpress.com
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