Mehta, Akanksha; Dattatreyan, E. Gabriel; Mounir, Mona; Raghunathan, Srikrupa and Mehta, Akansha. 2022. The Intimacy of Occupation: Care and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the University. Current Anthropology, 63(2), pp. 219-224. ISSN 0011-3204 [Article]

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In March 2019, a group of Black and POC students at Goldsmiths College, University of London, occupied a key administrative and historically symbolic building on campus to protest institutional racism. Calling themselves Goldsmiths Anti-racism Action (GARA), the occupiers wrote a 12-point manifesto that detailed what the institution had to do to change its exclusionary white institutional culture, labor practices, curriculum, and pedagogy. This photo essay, collaboratively produced by two students and two faculty members involved with GARA, documents care and intimacy as the praxis of the antiracist occupation. Through the images we share, we point to the intimacy of occupation and to the politicality of intimacy as care, particularly in struggles for racial justice.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1086/719533
Keywords:	Goldsmiths College, University of London, Goldsmiths Anti-racism Action (GARA), praxis, antiracist occupation
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Media, Communications and Cultural Studies > Centre for Feminist Research
Dates:	Date Event 31 July 2020 Submitted 10 February 2021 Accepted 6 April 2022 Published
Item ID:	32891
Date Deposited:	04 Jan 2023 13:35
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2023 11:21
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32891

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