Gabi, Josephine, Miller, Denise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9947-0616, Brown, Charmaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6471-9706, Warner, Diane and Davies, Susan (2026) Unruly legacies: Black male academics’ survivance, embodied refusal as praxis and pedagogical imaginaries in the UK higher education. Equity in Education and Society. pp. 1-18. ISSN 2752-6461 (Online) (doi:10.1177/27526461261437370)

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Abstract

Higher education institutions are sites for racialised subjectification that ‘enable only certain bodies’ to thrive and flourish whilst the racially minoritised body is marked as ‘Other’, out of place and subjected to scrutiny. Black male academics navigate discrepancies and racialised discrimination over their contracts, career progression, and opportunities available to them. They often experience overt and hidden forms racism, leading to vulnerability and employment fatigue. Through conversational in-traviews and drawing on embodied intersectionality as an analytic framework, and the conceptual argumentation of survivance, posited by Vizenor, we tell the stories of five Black male academics’ beyond the contextual temporality of ‘survival’ to consider their embodied refusal, and strategic agency, innovation and imaginative continuity and presence in academia as ‘survivance’ in the context of persistent forms of colonial subjugation and marginalisation. This study highlights implications for higher education policy and practice, particularly how institutions might embrace an infinitude of ways of knowing and being, through a relational orientation that centres care, equality, and co-liberation where difference and plurality are not framed as problems to be fixed, hierarchised, or annihilated

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	black male academics, Higher Education, embodied intersectionality, survivance, refusal, pedagogical imaginaries
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development > Centre for Inequalities Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Education (EDU) Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM)
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2026 10:48
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/52726

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