writing for writing

The writing practices woven throughout the course are designed to facilitate encounters with our own processes of sense-making. Each practice offers a curated pathway to greater awareness of how we inhabit both the academic discipline and everyday life as knowing subjects. ‘ writing for writing ’ focuses on personal reflection and inner exploration. Guided by questions or prompts framed around the themes of the class, the focus turns inward, towards our affective, biographical connections with the field and how ‘others’, images, and events live within us. This chapter illuminates insights, moments of growth, and realizations, as well as ambiguities, doubts, and challenges, as participants reflect on world politics and their immersion in it through private writing.