Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series

Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Harris Kornstein (University of Arizona)

This Collaboratory focuses on practitioners who have always worked in partnership with communities to create public knowledge and practice the kind of “study” that Stefano Harney and Fred Moten describe in their theorization of The Undercommons. A series of virtual sessions will share field-tested strategies, tactics, or methods that maintain alternate centers of gravity within (and outside of) academia, while also serving as an undercommons of its own. We see this Collaboratory as supporting ongoing efforts to develop new pathways for research that is meaningful and accessible to those most impacted, that advances the careers of public scholars/artists and cultural workers (by expanding what “counts” in various fields), and that demonstrates the value of these kinds of work.