This position statement elaborates on academic southernness, arguing its endemic quarantined position in Western and Northern academia. Drawing from the author’s personal experiences, this piece creates a critical dialogue with bell hook’s “choosing the margin as a space of radical openness” (2000), building the notion of academic southernness. Academic southernness is conceived summing Bhan’s notion of southern urban practice (2019) and Hutta’s affective boldness (2019), and is based on prioritizing action (against reflection), embeddedness (contrary to distance), and solidarity (in opposition to critique). Academic southernness is a permanent engaged and grounded perspective and attitude when facing (endemic) urban crisis, summarized by an extreme pragmatism, commonly unfamiliar for those from the “north” and explained by the anthem “act first, theorize later.” Academic southernness is foregrounded in contexts of crisis, such as the current pandemic, by affectively engaging in practices and with practitioners throughout territories of precarity, demonstrating engagement, embeddedness, and bold solidarities.

该立场声明详细阐述了学术上的南方性，称其在西方和北方学术界的地方隔离地位。借鉴作者的亲身经历，本文与贝尔·胡克的“选择空白作为激进的开放空间”（2000年）进行了批判性对话，树立了学术上的南方性概念。学术上的南方性被认为是总结了Bhan的南方城市实践概念（2019）和Hutta的情感大胆（2019），并基于对行动（反对反射），嵌入性（与距离相反）和团结（与批评相反）进行了优先排序。学术上的南方性是面对（地方性）城市危机时的一种长期参与和扎根的观点和态度，其总结是一种极端的实用主义，这对于“北方”的人们通常是陌生的，而国歌“首先行动，以后再理论化。” 在危机中，例如当前的大流行中，学术上的南方性是通过情感地参与实践并与pre可危地区的从业者进行情感交流，表现出参与，包容和大胆的团结而凸显的。