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Decolonial Encounters and the Geopolitics of Racial Capitalism
2020 •
tjasa kancler
In the summer of 2018 at the first Balkan Society for Theory and Practice workshop that took place in Prizren, Kosova, scholars, activists, and artists came together to engage in a very much needed debate about the past, present, and future of anti-capitalist politics, feminism, queer and trans* studies, critical race theory, postcolonial and decolonial critique in the context of the post-socialist Balkan countries and former Eastern Europe. The idea for this tri-logue came out of a late night and early morning conversations based on common concerns and collaborations that have taken various forms through years of exchange and engagement with one another. It is a discussion based on the questions posed in the open call for this special issue Breaking with Transition: Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives in Eastern Europe. To articulate some crucial critical points through this text, we speak about the conflicts and tensions, as well as the need to envisage important analytical t...
Archaeological Review From Cambridge 38.1
Ending Archaeology
2023 •
Taariq Ali Sheik
Catastrophes, from the COVID pandemic to the climate crisis, have come to suffuse the global consciousness. For colonised people, however, catastrophe is nothing new. This paper aims to trace the role of archaeology in the ongoing colonial catastrophe and to outline the challenges faced by decolonising archaeology, by using three examples from distinct locales: 1) the implication of archaeology in settler colonial displacement and neoliberal profiteering in Palestine; 2) its complicity in disaster capitalism and the reproduction of colonial subjectification in Sint Eustatius; 3) its role in the (re)capture of epistemic power by the Global North through the Anthropocene’s collapse narratives. The question we are left with is how do we move on from this realisation towards archaeologies which refute disaster and reaffirm life? Acknowledging abolition, I conclude that it is only through ending archaeology as we know it that we can pursue futures in communication with the histories that coloniality and capital have attempted to erase.
Knew World Undercurrents
2022 •
Arcia Tecun (Daniel Hernandez)
Chapter written for the anthology Towards a Grammar of Race: Arcia Tecun confronts the global and local mobility of race by interrogating lived experience along material and metaphysical lines of power. Tecun uses the idea of the ‘undercommons’, put forward by Moten and Harney in 2013, to explore possible relationships that confront race yet move through and towards ... 'Knew World Undercurrents' that can be found in subversive Oceanic relational ethics.
Dissertation Research The between and beyond of transdisciplinary art practice
Elisabeth Tomlinson
This research theorizes the potential of transdisciplinary learning informed by postcolonial theory and critical pedagogy as emancipatory praxis within neoliberal higher arts education institutions. My research aims are first, to determine in which ways colonial and capitalist structures within the university constricts the social conditions necessary for new knowledge production. Second, to question the social conditions necessary for new knowledge production. Third, to develop a language of transdisciplinarity for new knowledge production within the university space. My research centres on a series of unstructured, responsive interviews conducted between July and August, 2018 with South African artist and writer, Thulile (Thuli) Gamedze, a former student (BFA, 2014, MPhil, 2017) and current lecturer at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town (UCT). My context is not in one place but in two people, our experiences, and the cultural context necessary to understand them. The United States (US) and South Africa (SA) are framed as relationally significant, not just as Thuli and my geographical contexts, but in a global dynamic of centre/peripheral power dynamics. I have designed this research project for knowledge production through a dialogic exchange. My experience, Thuli’s experience, and our reflexive, critical interpretations of them are central to this work, its design, and its outcomes. Therefore, rather than determining a hypothesis or proposed findings, my study takes a generative and reflexive approach in the analysis of research data. Our dialogue was guided by the following themes: (1) specialization and reproduction of knowledge (2) transdisciplinarity as anti-capitalist pedagogy, (3) individualism and collectivity. Throughout all of our discussions, we defined knowledge as socially constructed and question what social environments promote or impede new knowledge production.
Review of Higher Education
What Can Decolonial and Abolitionist Critiques Teach the Field of Higher Education? (2021)
Sharon Stein
In this article, I offer a critical reading of the higher education field-imaginary and its orienting assumptions, inspired by decolonial and abolitionist critiques. These critiques identify the constitutive and ongoing violence that underwrites modern institutions of higher education, and thus, the higher education field itself. In so doing, they challenge scholars and practitioners to reckon with the implication of higher education in systemic harm and unsustainability, and to reimagine higher education as we know it. However, this reimagining should move beyond the common tendency to aspire to transcend the existing imaginary without disinvesting from the harmful promises it offers.
Comparative Literature
On Relationality, On Blackness: A Listening Post
2016 •
Keith Feldman
This introductory essay considers the critical purchase of “relationality” in current scholarly debates in Comparative Ethnic Studies and Comparative Literature. It foregrounds Blackness and/as incommensurability as they are treated in these fields' distinct and overlapping institutional locations, historical developments, and epistemic investments.
Alternautas - (Re)Searching Development: The Abya Yala Chapter. (Online Journal)
Dialogues of Indigenous Afro-Latinxs (re)existence: Possible decolonialities
2018 •
Katucha Bento, Andrea Sempértegui
This article is the result of the dialogue started in the symposium "Decolonizing the Global North: Afro-Latin America, the Caribbean and Abya Yala in Diaspora" during the International Congress of Americanists (56th ICA 2018). Written by eight hands in the format of a conversation, this text aims to expose the conditions of oppression experienced by indigenous and Afro-Latinx peoples from two positionalities. The first is the voice of researchers immersed in their given settings. This is followed by the comments of peer researchers addressing issues related to institutional racism, the exploitation and use of land, and the construction of identities and queer spaces from a decolonial perspective. This dialogue attempts to point toward possible horizons of liberation from exchanges that can build networks of solidarity.
Routledge eBooks
Decolonial criminology
2023 •
Dr. Wesley Crichlow
Rough Notes to Erasure: White Male Privilege, My Senses, and the Story I Cannot Tell
2020 •
Dolsy Smith
We are living through the wrack of the White Male. As the compact between social hierarchy, inherited privilege, and race (reinforced by gender and other normative categories) shows signs of buckling, his rage and resentment threaten us all. For he is a thing possessed: possessed by his own love of possession, and born to a sense that the world belongs to him and him alone. The spoils of oppression lie coiled inside him, a glut he can’t digest, and murder beckons behind the respect that he conceives of as his due. As W.E.B. Du Bois observed, to inquire of white men what makes them so special calls forth a fanatical defense, an empty enthusiasm. And this holds true even when we white men pose the question to ourselves. The voice that answers is not one I want to avow, but I am answerable for it. How to write against the grain of this self-possessed voice, whose authority lies at the surface, where the flesh becomes abstract (in the gender I perform and in the color of my skin)? My privilege underwrites any explication I might offer, however critically reflective. For I am permitted to believe that what I write exists apart from the flesh from which these words issue and from the history that it entails. And in this belief, my words glide over the violence, past and present, whose wake I am (however woke I try to become). A hybrid of critical essay and memoir, and Rough Notes to Erasure contributes to a growing body of work that wrestles with the tacit and embodied nature of privilege and prejudice, and it contributes not only via argument but also through style. Taking inspiration from feminist/queer poetics and what Fred Moten calls “the black avant-garde,” these rough notes address the remainder that gets lost in explicit argument, which is the flesh. Where privilege roils through history, and empire whets the appetites. But also where the world catches on its own fractalization by thought, feeling, and desire; and language recovers, for a moment or two, the power to entangle us with our mother tongue.
Higher education and the modern/colonial global imaginary (2016)
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Sharon Stein
In this article, we complicate common critical narratives about the neoliberalization of higher education by situating more recent trends within the genealogy of a modern/colonial global imaginary. By linking current patterns of “accumulation by dispossession” with histories and enduring architectures of racialized expropriation and exploitation, we consider both the strategic possibilities and inherent limitations of enacting resistance from within this imaginary. In particular, we engage the imperative to contest new configurations of dispossession while grappling with the ways that violent social relations have always subsidized public higher education. We suggest that facing such paradoxes may be instructive and open up new possibilities, and at the same time, this requires examination of existing investments and attachments.
