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Item Between paranoia and possibility: Diverse economies and the decolonial imperative(Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2022-02-13) Naylor, Lindsay; Thayer, NathanHere we reflect on diverse economies scholarship following Gibson-Graham's call to adopt performative practices for other worlds. Urging scholars to move from paranoia to possibility through weak theory methodology, their call provided momentum for work on economic difference that sustained critiques of capitalocentrism launched in 1996. In this clarion call to read for difference and possibility, a diverse economies framing facilitated a wholesale rejection of strong theory and paranoia. As a subdiscipline in the making, diverse economies scholars are challenged and critiqued as we seek to develop the framework and apply it to economic activities that exist within, alongside, and outside capitalism. Creating the language of diverse economies is continuous; here we consider a geopolitics of knowledge production in reading economic practice for difference, challenging the disuse of strong theory. We argue for deeper engagement with the power imbalances present in building liveable worlds, putting diverse economies and decolonial theory in conversation to address power and strike a balance between paranoia and possibility.Item Caring and Uncaring: White Supremacy, Diversity Work and Antiracist Pedagogies(University of Delaware, 2023) Thayer, NathanCare is foundational to the way we reproduce and transform the world around us. Today, in a time marked by widespread calls for racial and social justice, and simultaneous backlash against these calls, it is imperative that we understand the ways that care circulates and operates within racialized struggle. In this dissertation I engage in this through three separate scales. First, nationally, using the events surrounding the actions and trial of Kyle Rittenhouse to think through care’s sticky entanglements with the production of white supremacy. Second, I focus in on the university through diversity, equity, and inclusion work to think through how care is operationalized in these efforts, and how scale and nonperformative actions leave us with an uneven caringscape. Finally, in the classroom where I think through care as a means of safely engaging with discomfort as antiracist practice. In all, in this dissertation I argue that we need to make care messy and multiple, widening our approach to capture the totality of relations and systems produced.