### convenors # reading groups ## Program for comments by the participants - https://pad.riseup.net/p/IPCSreadinggroup-keep List of potential readings https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QkCvP7FKwVcCDGYSytDkg5zQOIUgBeEqIkbuJL9z6aA/edit#gid=0 # 2022 Term 1 ### Session 1 - Feb 22 * Chelsea Watego, Another Day in the Colony: - 'Introduction', and - Chapter 4 "On racial violence, victims, and victors" * Critical Forum: On the Uses of Settler Colonial Studies, from Postcolonial Studies, total 15 pages - Lorenzo Veracini (2021) Is settler colonial studies even useful?, Postcolonial Studies, 24:2, 270-277 - Alice Te Punga Somerville ((Te Ātiawa/ Taranaki)) (2021) OMG settler colonial studies: response to Lorenzo Veracini: ‘Is Settler Colonial Studies Even Useful?’, Postcolonial Studies, 24:2, 278-282, DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2020.1854980 - J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (2021) False dilemmas and settler colonial studies: response to Lorenzo Veracini: ‘Is Settler Colonial Studies Even Useful?’, Postcolonial Studies, 24:2, 290-296, DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2020.1857023 ### Session 2 - March 8 * Chelsea Watego, Another Day in the Colony: - Chapters 5 "Ambiguously indigenous" - Chapter 6 "Fuck Hope", and - Conclusion "A final word … on joy" ### Session 3 - March 22 Tasnim Sammak - Critical Education & Self-Determination - Bob Morgan, "Beyond the Guest Paradigm: Eurocentric Education and Aboriginal Peoples in NSW", Handbook of Indigenous Education (2019). - Curry Mallott, "How Amílcar Cabral shaped Paulo Freire’s pedagogy": https://www.newframe.com/how-amilcar-cabral-shaped-paulo-freires-pedagogy/?fbclid=IwAR2PZBMUvYU6ZEpOXGX8vKqbbOTkHmFTiGrslLrAAcnUROYFTN9QA1bAmoA **Supplementary** - Giroux, Henry A. “Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy.” Policy Futures in Education 8, no. 6 (December 2010): 715–21. ### Session 4 - April 5 - Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, 2014 - Introduction - Chapter 1 ### Session 5 - April 19 - Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, 2014 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 ### Session 6 - May 3 Carol Que - Abolish Academia - Red May TV: On the George Floyd Uprising & the Agency of Abolition | Red May 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsLr_4yJ0I4 - Joy James, “New Bones” Abolitionism, Communism, and Captive Maternals ### Session 7 - May 17 Guest Convenor TBA Carlos Morreo - Energy, Politics and Anticolonialism Shakira Hussein - Critical Disability ### Session 8 - May 31 Jack Kirne - Making Place in a Climate-Changed World - Val Plumwood, "Shadow Places and the Politics of Dwelling" AHR, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2008/03/01/shadow-places-and-the-politics-of-dwelling/ - Frederic Neyrat, (2018). The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation. New York: Fordham University Press, "Introduction: Reconstructing the Earth?" ### Session 9 - June 14 - Denise Ferreira da Silva, Unpayable Debt, Sternberg Press (2022). Chapters TBC. Term 2 Jazzy Jazz - Surveillance and Data Colonialism * Pinar Tuzcu, "Decoding the Cybaltern" - Jimmy Hyan - White Supremacy - - Maria Paula Hernandez - Postcolonilaism and human rights - Debate: Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dup versus Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright. + Anti-imperialism + Other Colonialisms - Earlier colonialisms - Other accounts of colonialism + Other Polities - Not the nation-state - Rojava + Critical Indigenous Theory - Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, 2014 + Pop & Personal, Cultural Politics Needs to have an anti-imperialist text pr anti-colonialism - Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, 2014 - Afropessimism by Frank Wilderson - Denise Ferreira da Silva, Towards a Global Idea of Race **Session 20** #21December * Aileen Moreton-Robinson (2021), "Incommensurable sovereignties: Indigenous ontology matters", in Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, ed. Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, Chris Andersen, Steve Larkin * Audio: IGOV Indigenous Speaker Series - Dr. Audra Simpson's "Mohawk Interruptus" https://youtu.be/FWzXHqGfH3U + open discussion 4. on racial violence, victims, and victors She talks about the difference between experiential knowledge and academic knowledge and her issues with academia. ## 2021 **Session 2** #23Feb #2March ### Indigenous & non-Indigenous Futures - Yin Paradies (2020), “Unsettling truths: modernity, (de)coloniality and Indigenous futures”, Postcolonial Studies, 23:4, 438-456. ### Coloniality - María Lugones (2007), “Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System”, Hypatia 22:1, 186-209. **Session 3** #9March #16March * Introduction (p3-23) of Dipesh Chakrabarty (2000), Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. New Jersey: Princeton University Press * Robbie Shiliam (2019), “From Ethiopia to Bandung with Fanon”, Bandung, 6(2), 163-189 **Session 4 ** #23March #30March [ ] Dipesh Chakrabarty (2000), *Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial* Thought and Historical Difference. New Jersey: Princeton University Press - Chapter 1 [ ] Juliette Singh (2018), *Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements.* Durham, NC: Duke University Press. - Chapter 1 **Session 5** #6April #13April - Alexis Shotwell (2016) Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. - Introduction & Conclusion. - Clare Land (2015) Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles. **Session 6** #20April #27April * Stephen Muecke & Paddy Roe, The Children’s Country - Introduction, Chapters 1, 6, 9 (5 optional) **Session 7** #4May #11May **Abolition & Decoloniality** Convenors: Jasmine Barzani & Eda Seyhan [ ] Dylan Rodríguez, “Abolition As Praxis Of Human Being: A Foreword”, 132 Harvard Law Review 1575 [ ] Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories Press, 2003): Chapter 6 – Abolitionist Alternatives [ ] **Skim/take a look at**: Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence: Chapter 4F – Taking Accountability (available at: https://www.creative-interventions.org/tools/toolkit/) **Session 7** #18May #25May **Abolition & Decoloniality** (cont.) Convenors: Jasmine Barzani & Eda Seyhan GUEST SPEAKER(S) ON ABOLITION IN PRACTICE - TBD **Session 8** #1June #8June short discussion on the Elbit action - 3cr interview [ ] Indigenous Sovereignty / Australia Larissa Behrendt (2013), “Aboriginal Sovereignty: A Practical Roadmap”, in Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility, Edited by Julie Evans Ann Genovese Alexander Reilly Patrick Wolfe, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 163-180. [ ] Adrian Little, ‘The Politics of Makarrata: Understanding Indigenous–Settler Relations in Australia’, Political Theory 48(1), 2020, pp 4–29. **Session 9** #22June #29June The world is cumbia: the politics of creolisation Moses Iten (Cumbia Cosmonauts / PhD Candidate, RMIT) Creolisation is a phenomenon largely studied by scholars of linguistics and literature, but Martinican poet-philosopher Edouard Glissant has discussed music as a prominent example of ‘creolisation’. The session seeks to explore the nuances of defining cumbia as hybrid, mestiza (“mixed race”), or creolising, and to consider more broadly the place of music as a practice of decolonisation. This week’s readings start with listening to (and watching) how the sound of Colombian cumbia has shifted from 1940s to the present day. Starting as a folk music recorded for export by the burgeoning Colombian music industry, to it becoming associated with urban ghettos across Latin America, and ultimately its circulation as a hip global club sound. This story is summarised in a short video documentary focused on case of cumbia in Peru. In addition to the audio files and short documentary video, we have two texts. A lecture on creolisation by Glissant himself, in which Glissant proposes that creolisation is applicable to the whole world beyond its usual Caribbean identification, and a critical and ethnomusicological history of cumbia as genre. Itinerary A listening and reading recommended itinerary might go like this: listen to some Cumbia, then watch the short doco, and finally do the readings: Versions of the song Cumbia Sampuesana (only need to listen to a bit of each video) 1940s Colombian folk music version by Conjunto Tipico Vallenato (featured in a Mexican film of the 1950s): https://youtu.be/AjGNMy-yneU 1990s Mexican sound system version by Sonido La Changa (song starts at 1:27): https://youtu.be/6NVFMOh2bUk 2000s Argentine ghetto cumbia version by Damas Gratis: https://youtu.be/8LBnl-49BKo 2010s Australian digital cumbia version by Cumbia Cosmonauts: https://youtu.be/hxRcxONwHDs?t=269 ‘Making Digital Cumbia in Peru’ on YouTube. Video (7min18sec). Published 2014. https://youtu.be/6mZ3EY6-r2U D’Amico, Leonardo. ‘Cumbia Music in Colombia: Origins, Transformations, and Evolution of a Coastal Music Genre’ in Fernández L’Hoeste, Héctor and Pablo Vila (Edited by). 2013. Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre. Durham and London: Duke University Press. pp. 29-48. Glissant, Edouard. 2020. ‘Creolizations in the Caribbean and the Americas’ in Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity. Translated by Celia Britton. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 3-17 **Session 10** #6July #13July [ ] Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang (2012), “Decolonization is not a metaphor”, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1:1, 1-40. [ ] Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, "A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization." South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) 111 (1): 95-109. ## BREAK BEFORE TERM 3 **Session 11** #3August * Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020 Introduction & Chapter 3: Settlers and Natives in Apartheid South Africa Optional audio - Welcome? Podcast, episode “Nubian Nostalgia: Part 1” https://welcomepodcast.wordpress.com/nubian-nostalgia/ **Session 12** #17August * Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020 Chapter 4: Sudan: Colonialism, Independence, and Secession & Conclusion: Decolonizing the Political Community - TBD **Session 13** #31August * Chi Chi Shi, Defining My Own Oppression: Neoliberalism and the Demands of Victimhood, Historical Materialism 26:2, 2018 + open discussion (current issues, questions of strategy/practice/activism, anything else that participants want to raise about their work or topics that have been previously discussed) **Session 14** #14September * Nikki Moodie (2018), “Decolonising Race Theory: Place, survivance and sovereignty” in The Relationality of Race in Education Research, eds. G. Vass, J. Maxwell, S. Rudolph and K.N. Gulson, Routledge * Lilly Brown, Odette Kelada & Dianne Jones (2021) ‘While I knew I was raced, I didn’t think much of it’: the need for racial literacy in decolonising classrooms, Postcolonial Studies, 24:1, 82-103 **Session 15** #28September Guest convenor - Zuleika Arashiro on 'Colonialism & Okinawa' ## BREAK BEFORE TERM 4 **Session 16** #26October EITHER * Prologue to Samir Amin, The Long Revolution of the Global South, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2019 * Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (2021) Revisiting Marxism and decolonisation through the legacy of Samir Amin, Review of African Political Economy, 48:167, 50-65 + + open discussion **Session 17** #9November * Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Introduction & Chapter 1: Use **Session 18** #23November * Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Chapter 2: Propertied Abstractions & Chapter 3: Improvement **Session 19** #7December Guest convenor - Lily Malham Spake on 'Indigenous languages and discourses of 'endangerment'' ## Notes Notes from discussion - December 2021 -enjoyed doing books for longer periods - over 2 session x 2 -cultural studies stuff - social - e.g. Sara Ahmed -Another Day in the Colony - Chelsea Watego -Ghassan Hage - more recent stuff -Fanon -Paolo Friere -Paul Gilroy -climate change/environmentalism - guest convenors - Jack Kirne -critical disability - guest convenor Shakira Hussein -radical education - guest convening - Tasnim Sammak -non-European colonialisms / proto-colonialisms -Afro-pessimism -Sunday Paper -accessibility of podcasts and texts and video Notes from discussion - 18 May 2021 -Arab colonialism? Potential workshop/event organised by Scheherazade B - we could do a reading group near that. Towards the end of the year. -too many texts - less pages overall - vary it so there are sessions when there are more or less. Cap it at 50, aim for 40 most weeks -themes - working through them longer? -guests - something rarer. one or two times a year, rather than very common -changing time? -schedule in an hour block every 2 or 3 sessions for a reflection on decolonial practice - not a lot, keep it focused on reading (rather than guests -include oral and visual materials as well as texts -indigenous languages in Australia - discourse endagenered deaths. guest convenor - Lily -general agreement to keep with the themes that we’ve been doing this year -September - Zuleika - Okinawa applying settler colonial framework to Japan (Eda: maybe one of the “decolonial practice” sessions could be on Rojava? -open reflective hour - nothing set and just a chat (could bring up stuff left hanging before, of the moment e.g. how we did with palestine) -every third session, second hour as a conversation that is more open - could bring up questions that we’re confronting - talking about work that we’re engaged in -add breaks between sessions - term 3 and term 4 (take out one session so that there’s a four month) -Robbie Shilliam - could invite - Decolonial Politics -Books - need to split across two session so that we read at least 4 chapters (Red Skin, White Masks / Brenna’s book / Robbie’s book / Alana Why Race Matters) - there should be at least one Australian book -one or two books in each term -next email: say the structure, thinking of reading 2 books and four articles here are some of the - vote up / vote down - guest convening 3 people come so far and what it involves. also add any visual and listening that is relevant to the themes, material for us to discuss could be texts, podcasts, films, clips, etc -email guest convenors ++ -date to return -convenor -format -regularity - ## Potential Guest Convenors - Carlos Morreo - Energy and Colonialism - Jack Kirne - Environmental Politics & Literature - Tasnim Sammak - Radical Education - Shakira Hussein - Critical Disability - Jazzy Jazz - Surveillance and the Ends of Time - Maria Paula Hernandez - Postcolonilaism and human rights - Moses Iten - music, Glissant - Jaz & Eda on abolition - Lina Koleilat & Carlos on liberation theology - Scheherazade Bloul on 'Arab colonialism' - potential? Would need to confirm that she's keen. ## Themes / Articles ### Coloniality [X] Anibal Quijano (2000). “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America”, Nepantla: Views from South 1.3, 533-580. [X] María Lugones (2007), “Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System”, Hypatia 22:1, 186-209. ### Settler Colonialism [X] Patrick Wolfe (2006), “Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native”, Journal of Genocide Research, 8:4, 387-409. [ ] Volume 24 No 2 June 2021 Postcolonial Studies articles on settler colonialism - short enough to do a couple [ ] Kevin Bruyneel, Challenging American Boundaries: Indigenous People and the “Gift” of U.S. Citizenship, Studies in American Political Development, 18 (Spring 2004) - suggested by Eileen ### Indigenous & non-Indigenous Futures [X] Yin Paradies (2020), “Unsettling truths: modernity, (de)coloniality and Indigenous futures”, Postcolonial Studies, 23:4, 438-456. ### Indigenous Sovereignty / Australia [X] Larissa Behrendt (2013), “Aboriginal Sovereignty: A Practical Roadmap”, in *Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility*, Edited by Julie Evans Ann Genovese Alexander Reilly Patrick Wolfe, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 163-180. [X] Adrian Little, ‘The Politics of Makarrata: Understanding Indigenous–Settler Relations in Australia’, *Political Theory* 48(1), 2020, pp 4–29. ### Indigenous Resistance - Leanne Simpson (2016), ‘Indigenous Resurgence and Co-resistance’, Critical Ethnic Studies 2(2), pp 19–34. ### Whiteness / Race [ ] Alison Whittaker (2020), “So White. So What.” Meanjin 79:1, 50-61. [X] Chi Chi Shi, Defining My Own Oppression: Neoliberalism and the Demands of Victimhood, Historical Materialism 26(2), 2018 [X] Lilly Brown, Odette Kelada, Dianne Jones "While I knew I was raced..." Postcolonial Studies Vol 24 No 1 [could invite them] ### Decolonisation is (not) [X] Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang (2012), "Decolonization is not a metaphor", Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1:1, 1-40. ### Anti-Imperialism ### Critical theory & the world - Anna Tsing, ‘On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales’, Common Knowledge 25(1–3), 2019, pp 143–162. ### Education - Mahmood Mamdani (2019), "Decolonising universities." In Sharing Knowledge, Transforming Societies: The Norhed Programme 2013-2020. Cape Town: African Minds. - Nikki Moodie, "DECOLONISING RACE THEORY: Place, survivance and sovereignty" in THE RELATIONALITY OF RACE IN EDUCATION RESEARCH (2018) - Bryan Mukandi & Chelsea Bond (2019) ‘Good in the Hood’ or ‘Burn It Down’? Reconciling Black Presence in the Academy, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 40:2, 254-268, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2019.1577232 ### Class & Identity - Sankaran Krishna (2015), "Notes on the Dramatic Career of a Concept: The Middle Class, Democracy, and the Anthropocene." Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 40(1): 3-14. ### Political economy - "Plunder in the Post-Colonial Era: Quantifying Drain from the Global South Through Unequal Exchange, 1960–2018" by Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan & Huzaifa Zoomkawala ### Knowledge & Practice [X] Juliette Singh (2018), Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (Chapter 1: Decolonising Mastery) ### Fanon [X] Robbie Shiliam (2019), “From Ethiopia to Bandung with Fanon””, Bandung, 6(2), 163-189. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/21983534-00602002 ### Liberation Theology - https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/godforbid/how-liberation-theology-changed-the-church-and-the-world/11371032 ## Themes / Books ### Ehtnicities & Minorities [ ] Mahmood Mamdani, *Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities.* Harvard University Press, 2020. ### Eurocentrism / Historicity [X] Dipesh Chakrabarty (2000), *Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference.* New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ### Knowledge [X] Juliette Singh (2018), *Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements*. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. - Boaventura de Sousa Santos, *The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South*. Durham: Duke, 2018. ### Property & Critical Theory - Robert Nichols, *Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory*, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. [X] Brenna Bhandar, *Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership*, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. ### Indigeneity / Indigenous Theory - Leanne Simpson, *As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance*, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. - Glen Coulthard, *Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition*, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. - Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (2020). *Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourses*. Polity. - Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, ed. Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, Chris Andersen, Steve Larkin - The Transit of Empire : Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism Jodi A.Byrd # As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance Leanne Simpson Skimmed, seems like a very very cool book, and pretty different to most stuff we've read. It's conceptually very dense, but not difficult to read. Would definitely generate loads of interesting discussion. Kind of hard to imagine only a few chapters being read. It introduces and explains alot of new ideas and then references and expands upon them later on so it would be a bit jarring to skip chapters. Chapter 1 would compliment Red Skin, White Masks well. Chapter 2 or 3 could work well with Critical Forum: On the Uses of Settler Colonial Studies, "Is settler colonial studies even useful" + "OMG settler colonial studies response to Lorenzo Verancini's is settler colonial studies even useful". ## Introduction My Radical Resurgent Present p.1-11 What nationhood means to Nishnaabeg - not a nation-state. ## 1) Nishnaabeg Brilliance as Radical Resurgence Theory p.11-27 Indigenous resurgence as a set of practices through which the regeneration and reestablishment of Indigenous nations can be achieved. In this chapter she details processes, feelings, stories and ideas of the Elders of Long Lake, and Ninshnaabeg knowledge. The idea of Grounded Normativity - reference to Red Skin White Masks. ## 2) Kwe as Resurgent Method p.27-39 Discussion of the academy, critiques of and the processes of producing knowledge through non-European methodologies. She details what The Radical Resurgence Project is. ## 3) The Attempted Dispossesion of Kwe 39-55 Discussion of colonialism, settler colonialism, Radical Resurgence (the radical transformation of Indigenous life), and gender in Ninshnaabeg. ## 4) Ninshnaabeg Internationalism 55-71 The relationships between Indigenous knowledges, non- Indigenous knowledges, and treaties with other indigneous nations. ## 5) Nishnaabeg Anticapitalism 71-83 Title speaks for itself. Meeting and interview with Naomi Klein. ## 6) Endlessly Creating Our Indigenous Selves p.83-95 Gender. Very cool chapter. ## 7) The Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples Bodies p.95-119 Historic recount of forms of colonial violence, assimilation, gendered violence, racism. ## 8) Indigenous Queer Normativity p.95-119 ## 9) Land as Pedagogy p.119-145 ## 10) "I see Your Light": Reciprocal Recognition and Generative Refusal p.175-191 ## 11) Embodied Resurgent Practice and Coded Disruption p.191-211 Daily practices of decolonialism, everyday acts of resurgence, refusing colonial spatialities, resurgent artistic spatialities. ## 12) Constellations of Coresistence 211-233 How to collectively order through the Nishnaabeg idea of constellations. Example of artist collective that embodies indigenous values of individuated creation, and collaborative, interdependent communality. An example of a mobilisation withing grounded normativity: Idle No More movement. Discussion of the use of the internet, how the movement was built and the relationship to allies. ## Conclusion Toward Radical Resurgent Struggle 233-249 ### Australia * Tim Rowse (2017), *Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901*, New South Books. Various chapters. * Melinda Hinkson, See How We Roll: Enduring Exile between Desert and Urban Australia, NC: Duke University Press, 2021 * Chelsea Watego, Another Day in the Colony, University of Queensland Press, 2021 # Another Day in the Colony Chelsea Watego Skimmed through the book. It's very light reading, theory is mentioned here and there but generally not discussed in depth. It's a very personal account of experiences with racism, and colonialism as a Black person. I found the relationships made with different types of theory interesting, but in general kind of boring. The most interesting chapters imo are 4,5,6 and the last chapter ## Introduction Set's the stage for what the book is about, who it is written for and why CW chose personal prose. CW intends on telling stories that matter to capital B Black people, regarding the everyday experiences of colonial violence. ## 1. don't feed the natives CW's early childhood experiences coming to terms with her identity/racism. Issues in academia. ## 2. animals, cannibals and criminals CW problematises depictions of Indigenous people in literature and childrens books. She talks about a storytelling war. She also discusses her experiences in the media and getting publicized in journals. ## 3. the unpublishable story The production of knowledge about Indigenous people, by non-Indigenous people. ## 4. on racial violence, victims, and victors She talks about the difference between experiential knowledge and academic knowledge and her issues with academia. ## 5. ambiguously indigenous People taking up indigeneity based on biology. ## 6. fuck hope Similar to affropessimism ## a final word ... on joy The politics of 'self care' and how its dumb # The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Empire Jody A.Byrd ## Preface: Full Fathom Five p.xi-xiv ## Introduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization p.xv-xxxix ## 1. Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry p.1-39 ## 2. “This Island’s Mine”: The Parallax Logics of Caliban’s Cacophony p.39-77 ## 3. The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris’s Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability p.77-117 ## 4. “Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn’t Stay There”: Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship p.117-147 ## 5. Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance p.147-185 ## 6. Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the “Pale Promise of Democracy” p.185-221 ## Conclusion: Zombie Imperialism p.221-231 ### Anti-Imperialism / Capitalism [ ] Samir Amin (2019), *The Long Revolution of the Global South: Toward a New Anti-Imperialist International. *New York: Monthly Press. Various chapters. # The Long Revolution of the Global South: Toward a New Anti-Imperialist International Samir Amin ## Prologue: Successive Waves of the South’s Awakening p.15-51 ## 1. The Arab World: Nationalism, Political Islam, and the Predicted Arab Revolutions p.51-105 ## 2. Africa: African Socialisms, Colonial Disasters, and Glimmers of Hope p.105-187 ## 3. Asia: Triumphant Capitalism, Dead Ends, and Emergence in Question p.187-259 ## 4. Latin America: End of the Monroe Doctrine? Popular Advances p.259-305 ## 5. Eastern Europe, the USSR, and Russia: The End of the Tunnel? p.305-331 ## 6. China, Vietnam, and Cuba: Fears and Hopes p.331-365 ## 7. The World Forum for Alternatives and the Social Forums p. 365-403 ## 8. The North and the Question of Imperialism 403-433 ### State - David Theo Goldberg (2001), *The Racial State.* Wiley-Blackwell. - John Protevi, *Edges of the State*, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. ### Religion / Theology - Saba Mahmood, *Religious difference in a secular age: a minority report*. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2016. - Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason (Ruth Benedict Book Series) Paperback – December 4, 2018 by Talal Asad ### Queer Critique & Coloniality - Scott Lauria Morgensen (2011), *Spaces between us: Queer settler colonialism and indigenous decolonisation.* Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ### Multispecies decolonisation - Deborah Bird Rose (2011), *Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction. *Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. - Deborah Bird Rose (1992). *Dingo makes us human: life and land in an aboriginal Australian culture.* Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ### Race / Anti-racism / Fascism [ ] Alana Lentin, Why Race Still Matters, Polity, 2020. [ ] Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, the undercommons: fugitive planning & black study [ ] Afropessimism by Frank Wilderson - The International Alt-Right : Fascism for the 21st Century?, by PATRIK HERMANSSON, David Lawrence, Joe Mulhall, Simon Murdoch ### Pacific [ ] Epeli Hau'ofa in his 1993 work 'Our Sea of Islands ## Suggested Readings - Deborah Bird Rose (JK) - Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (MN/CEM) - Scott Lauria Morgensen (CEM) - Houria Bouteldja (CEM) ## Suggested Texts - Texts available in shared folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oq0v6txvs2hmt9l/AADN2B0Pz3iHMnTPqH2M00Haa?dl=0 ## Participant Lists https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17_QjZvMWe31PH9_MZIvJWaRBhEujqb-uYfHToR5iwkw/edit?usp=sharing ### convenor # poetry is the method of our future community ## Program ## Participant Lists https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LBjYxX5VluHrY89jOQHQYstBDjhkx8H9_QKCgE7diYc/edit?usp=sharing