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Relational mentorship for justice-oriented scholarship: space for care, reckoning, and supported discomfort

Relational mentorship for justice-oriented scholarship: space for care, reckoning, and supported... We see relational mentorship as a move towards shared vulnerability, but also a relationship that is reciprocal, non-competitive, and non-authoritarian. We reflect on growth-spurring (and often uncomfortable) conversations about privilege, race, inaction, among other topics amidst social unrest and personal tensions with/in the systems in which we continue to be complicit. Through returning to cultural protocols, love, thinkacting, theorypracticing, and attentiveness to the affects of our full selves, we discuss the difficult and ‘sacred’ work of support one another’s goals, celebrate milestones, and above all else, prioritize well-being above our individual or academic achievements in a neoliberal institution. We focus this paper on: (1) locating relational mentorship amongst existing approaches, (2) articulating relational mentorship and our experiences of it in relation to ongoing socio-political events, and (3) the ways relational mentorship can serve as a critique-in-practice of long-standing academic performances. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Leisure/Loisir Taylor & Francis

Relational mentorship for justice-oriented scholarship: space for care, reckoning, and supported discomfort

Relational mentorship for justice-oriented scholarship: space for care, reckoning, and supported discomfort

Leisure/Loisir , Volume 47 (1): 18 – Jan 2, 2023

Abstract

We see relational mentorship as a move towards shared vulnerability, but also a relationship that is reciprocal, non-competitive, and non-authoritarian. We reflect on growth-spurring (and often uncomfortable) conversations about privilege, race, inaction, among other topics amidst social unrest and personal tensions with/in the systems in which we continue to be complicit. Through returning to cultural protocols, love, thinkacting, theorypracticing, and attentiveness to the affects of our full selves, we discuss the difficult and ‘sacred’ work of support one another’s goals, celebrate milestones, and above all else, prioritize well-being above our individual or academic achievements in a neoliberal institution. We focus this paper on: (1) locating relational mentorship amongst existing approaches, (2) articulating relational mentorship and our experiences of it in relation to ongoing socio-political events, and (3) the ways relational mentorship can serve as a critique-in-practice of long-standing academic performances.

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Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2022 Canadian Association for Leisure Studies / Association canadienne d’études en loisir
ISSN
2151-2221
eISSN
1492-7713
DOI
10.1080/14927713.2022.2141834
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Abstract

We see relational mentorship as a move towards shared vulnerability, but also a relationship that is reciprocal, non-competitive, and non-authoritarian. We reflect on growth-spurring (and often uncomfortable) conversations about privilege, race, inaction, among other topics amidst social unrest and personal tensions with/in the systems in which we continue to be complicit. Through returning to cultural protocols, love, thinkacting, theorypracticing, and attentiveness to the affects of our full selves, we discuss the difficult and ‘sacred’ work of support one another’s goals, celebrate milestones, and above all else, prioritize well-being above our individual or academic achievements in a neoliberal institution. We focus this paper on: (1) locating relational mentorship amongst existing approaches, (2) articulating relational mentorship and our experiences of it in relation to ongoing socio-political events, and (3) the ways relational mentorship can serve as a critique-in-practice of long-standing academic performances.

Journal

Leisure/LoisirTaylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2023

Keywords: Relational mentorship; love; justice scholarship; networks of support; practices of resistance; mentorat relationnel; amour; bourses d’études pour justice sociale; réseaux de soutien; moyens de résistance

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