Thinking Around Tenure: Ducking Under the Finish Line

Abstract

To find new ways around thinking about tenure track, we propose seven movements as a means to think beyond the limitations of binary, conceptual frameworks. A living inquiry in place, language, time, and self/other is the lens through which we experience the complexities and complicities of tenure ambitions; we point out the difficulties of a track which defines what matters, what is possible, and even what exists. Also. in the poetic and performative process of co-constructing text, we attend closely to the contexts and strategic relationships for performative knowing and exploring.