Habitus Detritus Editorial 2013

Abstract

The foundation of feminist scholarship is criticality. Criticality toward social, economic, and environmental injustice becomes advocacy and activism for social justice by responsibly listening to voices of people who are marginalized and oppressed. Their stories reveal power structures that control people, cultural narratives, and hegemonic worldviews and by responding to these stories, we imagine ways of stopping harmful, inequitable, and discriminatory practices and envisioning eco-utopian well-being alternatives.1 “An emancipatory, critical social science develops out of the social relations of the research process itself, out of the enactment of research praxis that uses intellectual effort to work toward a more just society” (Lather, 2004, p. 208).