#4353. Contingency plans: an introduction

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Abstract:
This research offers contingency as a framework for Asian American and minoritarian world-making in the face of ongoing crisis, precarity, and violence. During the time of a pandemic, the Movement for Black Lives, the uprisings calling for the abolition of police and prisons, and a public reckoning with the safety, support, and “diversity” of staff, students, and faculty within the academy, how have contingency plans become critical, necessary sites for building feminist and queer of color affiliations and coalitions beyond the scope of institutionality? Contingency plans are made to be used during the perceived exceptionality of a crisis and so rarely used. Yet in the current moment, they have come to constitute everyday life, not as solutions, but as the place from which we express dissatisfaction and a desire for something more. Here, we offer frameworks for this issues navigation of the promise of institutionality, disciplinary formations, and the forging of connections through practices of relationality, care, and interdisciplinarity.
Keywords:
Afro-Asian studies; analytic of relation; Asian American feminisms; Asian American studies; care; comparative racial studies; contingency; institutionalization; labor; minoritarian aesthetics; Pacific and oceanic studies; performance studies; states of emergency

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