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Introduction: Relational Activism in and through Pragmatist Feminism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2021

Danielle Lake  and
Judy Whipps
Danielle Lake*
Affiliation:
Center for Design Thinking, Elon University, Campus Box 2620, Elon, NC 27244
Judy Whipps
Affiliation:
Professor Emerita, Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies, Grand Valley State University, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI 49401
*
Corresponding authors. Email: dlake@elon.edu and whippsj@gvsu.edu
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This Hypatia cluster aims to create space for sharing stories and tools designed to support situated, embodied, and dialogical philosophical activism. It emerges from a new generation of pragmatist feminists, illustrating how the field has evolved. These pieces locate pragmatist feminism in place- and issue-based philosophical activism. As an activist and pragmatically grounded philosophy, this approach values the embodied and relational nature of social change as well as the need to create multiple pathways of engagement situated in and across communities.

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Hypatia , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , Spring 2021 , pp. 360 - 369
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hypatia, a Nonprofit Corporation

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