This paper is a collaborative autoethnography of a global South/North partnership in which we utilise the notion of assembled subjectivity to interrogate our own scholarly becoming. We use a co-created artwork (see Uncertain Futures) to interpret certain themes that have surfaced in our global South/North collaborations over the decade. As South African scholars working across South/North contexts, we see our scholarly subjectivity as interwoven and shaped by colonial legacies, historical power imbalances, ethical dilemmas, and continued unequal knowledge exchanges. Through various academic partnerships we have used arts-based inquiry and collaborative autoethnography to explore subjectivity in Higher Education. While we work with the global South/North binary we also employ our assembled subjectivity to problematise this binary. In this paper we use our co-created artwork to reflect on how our collaborative research projects and subjectivities have changed over time as we moved and worked between institutions in the global South/North context.

Authors:
Liezl Dick, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Marguerite Muller, Kings College London & University of the Free State, United Kingdom

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Liezl Dick is currently a Leadership Development Coordinator at the Centre for Student Life & Learning, at Stellenbosch University.

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