Contesting Post-truth Chaos through Interdisciplinary Heterotopias
In: Women's studies quarterly: WSQ, Band 52, Heft 1-2, S. 231-250
ISSN: 1934-1520
Abstract: Recent populist rhetoric and politics seek to undermine existing democratic institutions and efforts to make them more inclusive. Connecting new feminist scholarship that confronts the multidisciplinary implications of post-truth populist politics and discourse, especially for higher education, with exemplary heterotopic feminist responses to pandemonia over the past century, this essay considers how previous tactics might be recast to disturb and provoke the existing status quo, creating new strategies for countering contemporary anti-democratic practices.