{"product_id":"quiet-methodologies-humility-in-the-humanities-hardback-9781517918200","title":"Quiet Methodologies; Humility in the Humanities (Hardback) 9781517918200","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQuiet Methodologies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHumility in the Humanities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSuzanne Bost (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517918200\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages, 12 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Suzanne Bost’s book is a powerful exploration of literary criticism during an age of crises, when planetary, human, and other-species futurities are at stake. It privileges a careful, porous reading of texts that center the decolonial and the resistant. Bost offers a nuanced reflexivity that never crosses into navel-gazing-and asks us to reimagine how we make scholarly arguments through a method that is dialogical, critical, and even tender.\"-Piya Chatterjee, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eQuiet Methodologies\u003c\/i\u003e showcases post-oppositional approaches to conventional academic scholarship, creating new opportunities for provocative multispecies, cross-temporal conversations and inter-dimensional communities of knowledge creators. Replacing the combative critique that so often dominates contemporary academic life with intellectual humility, radical inclusivity, invitational pedagogies, and alchemical dialogues, Suzanne Bost offers much-needed possibilities for transformation. I can’t wait to share this book with my students!\"-AnaLouise Keating, author of \u003ci\u003eThe AnzaldÚan Theory Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReimagining humanities scholarship with humility and inclusive attention\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e How might foregrounding the writings of colonized peoples transform the ways we work in the humanities? In an era dominated by loud political rhetoric, Suzanne Bost advocates for quieter modes of scholarship: intellectual humility rather than ego, collaboration and conversation rather than singular argumentation, continual reflection and revision rather than defensiveness, and a willingness to believe in different ways of being and knowing rather than adhering to academic norms. With \u003ci\u003eQuiet Methodologies,\u003c\/i\u003e she demonstrates practical decolonial scholarship and proposes alternative approaches for fostering meaningful engagement. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Turning to feminist, queer, and decolonial writings from Gloria AnzaldÚa, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Audre Lorde, and many others, Bost reflects on what we do when we work with literature, culture, and ideas. She weaves together multiple voices, methods of writing, and culturally diverse epistemologies and uses creative devices such as collage, her own original poetry, revision, lists, images, and conversation to disengage academic thought and writing from colonial theories and archives that have passed as neutral. Eschewing conventional monograph formats, her work embraces a reciprocal and heterogeneous learning process with profound ethical implications. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part of a movement of reimagining research and education through care, \u003ci\u003eQuiet Methodologies\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful exploration of the possibilities of criticism during crises. It encourages readers to be visionary and pragmatic, challenging current conditions and offering alternative ideas for the future of the humanities. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Digging up the Relics of Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e 1. Decolonial Silence and Noise\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Gloria Evangelina AnzaldÚa Papers and Literary Research Methodologies\u003cbr\u003e 3. Changing My Mind with Ana Castillo\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pods, Undercommons, and the Futures of Graduate Study\u003cbr\u003e Inconclusive: A Collage toward Future Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619260887320,"sku":"9781517918200","price":60.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/quiet-methodologies-humility-in-the-humanities-hardback-9781517918200","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}