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100			_aChallahan, Jamie L. Elliott, Carole. _921153
245			_aFantasy spaces and emotional derailment: Reflections on failure in academic activism
260			_aOrganization
300			_a27(3), May, 2020: p.506-514
520			_aAgainst a backdrop of contentious political landscapes of Brexit and the Trump victory, we reflect on our own experience of an attempt to engage in an activist event for academics that failed. We contend that our experiences of failure in this event, revealed by fantasy spaces and emotional derailment, serve as lessons for reinvigorating possibilities for academic activism. To provide background, we describe an event designed to form a policy as a collective response to the populism of Donald Trump. We then reflect on our role as critical scholars in this event that failed to meet our objective and taught us other important lessons. Our analysis leads us to address three orthodoxies: diatribes decrying the awfulness of Trump and his administration cronies create fantasy spaces that might ‘feel’ good, but are actually counterproductive; academia itself is a site for activism that has far-reaching implications; and hiding failure is a form of collaboration with performativity. Our provocation is, in part, to resist the ‘heroic’ and grandiose success story narrative—both in academia and activism. We do this by foregrounding vulnerability through sharing our own story of failure and reflecting on some of the devices that derailed our attempt at academic activism.- Reproduced
650			_aAcademic activism, Derailment, Emotion, Fantasy spaces, Learning from failure, Populism, Trump _919354
773			_aOrganization
906			_aACADEMIC ACTIVISM
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