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Bruna Martins Coelho
Object: This Not-a-Paper ‘on’ the Andropobscenic University
Starting from the editorial committee’s proposal concerning strategies for the recognition of Global South researches, in this letter I indicate a number of broader impasses related to neoliberal academia in a context in which ecological crisis emerges as a major crisis of capital. To do so, I resort to concepts drawn from feminist, decolonial, and post-structuralist literature and bring them into dialogue with a Marxist framework of analysis.
2024. feminism; university system; precariousness; ethics of capitalism; neoliberal ideology
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Ana Carolina Schveitzer
Making Germany’s Hidden Yet Omnipresent Colonial Past Visible
For thirty years, Berlin was the metropole of the German colonial empire. For most German citizens, however, this statement is relatively unknown. Even though there is an increased interest in decolonial praxis within Berlin-based cultural and educational settings, the persistence of such efforts and their implications within larger society is hard to assess in advance. In response, this text proposes a walking tour through Berlin, highlighting places related to this part of German history. In doing so, it demonstrates the presence of many references to colonialism spread through the city and, more significantly, many initiatives and projects seeking to make this past more visible. By offering an overview of four specific locations within the city, this chapter hopes to critically reflect on the extensive trajectory of the ongoing struggles for historical reparations.
2024. German colonialism; Berlin; collective memory; reparation; decolonization
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Kata Katz
Kill your Darlings (Working Title)
The following think piece explores what it means to exist in a culture of idols by questioning the universalistic practice of canonization. By rejecting homogenous Eurocentric thinking, this piece makes room for the voices of plurality and collective thinking with each other. To this end, it relies on feminist praxis to criticize the genius-based, self-contained understanding of creativity and success perpetuating within contemporary scientific research. Indeed, it presents a case for cultivating cultures of failure within academia and demonstrates with its own stylistic development how cultivating a stream of thoughts can speak to the fragmented and collective nature of the entangled process of thinking and writing.
2024. philosophy of science; radical praxis; feminism and science; experimental literature; decolonization; failure; canonization
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Marlon Miguel
Inner World and Milieu: Art, Madness, and Brazilian Psychiatry in the Work of Nise da Silveira
This short essay focuses on the work of Brazilian doctor Nise da Silveira, a pioneer in psychiatry who introduced artistic tools to work with psychiatric patients, especially those diagnosed as psychotic. She founded the Museum of Images from the Unconscious in 1952 inside an asylum in Rio de Janeiro to assemble and exhibit the works produced by her patients. As an iconoclast who did not systematize her theory, she engaged with several European psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and thinkers to produce a very innovative reflection and practical clinical work. Her work resonates in particular with French Institutional Psychotherapy, as well as with Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work in Algeria, but, differently from the former, places art at the core of its clinical method and proposes a radical positioning against every form of medicalized approach.
2024. psychoanalysis; psychiatry; institutional psychotherapy; Silveira, Nise da; milieu; Brazil; Fanon, Frantz
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Bernardo Bianchi
Marx on the Periphery: The Making of a New Tradition at the University of São Paulo
With reference to the Marx Seminars at the University of São Paulo, this chapter discusses the creation of a specific tradition in the social sciences that marks a crucial moment in the history of postcolonial and decolonial studies. By means of the concept of periphery, I reconstruct how this tradition refuted temporal and stadial dualisms. Moreover, I argue that the development of this new perspective in the social sciences must be understood in terms of its efforts to rethink Marx but also, and more importantly, by the need to rethink Brazil’s place in the world. Following this thread, I analyse Roberto Schwarz’s work as paradigmatic for a proper understanding of the centrality of the concept of periphery in these discussions.
2024. marxism; Capital; Brazil; backwardness; periphery; Schwarz, Roberto
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Iracema Dulley and Frederico Santos dos Santos
To Be Given Names: Displaced Social Positionalities in Senegal and Angola
During fieldwork, anthropologists are given many names that point to their intersectional placement regarding race, class, gender, nationality, and religion. Yet, careful consideration of vernacular forms of designation reveals that such generalizing categories do not always reflect the ways in which people are named and positioned in a given context. While acknowledging the relevance of intersectionality, this paper discusses the relationship between naming and social positionality through a comparative consideration of names employed to designate Dulley in Angola and Santos in Senegal. It explores how these designators, ascribed to the researchers by their interlocutors, contextually identify their positionality. Through concrete examples, it shows how this process of emplacement can both enable and restrict one’s possibilities of action and experience.
2024. ethnography; intersectionality; naming; positionality; Angola; Senegal; vernacular expression
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Iracema Dulley and Juliana M. Streva
Invitation, To Exi(s)t
This joint piece aspires to be a dialogue. In a dialogue, people speak and, most importantly, listen, from their respective positions. Drawing from Trinh T. Minh-ha’s notion of speaking nearby, Dulley and Streva reflect on the relationship between authorship, authority, and authoritarianism; the parallel between listening and reading, on the one hand, and speaking and writing, on the other hand; the entanglement between disciplinary systems of knowledge and colonial structures of power; the opacity of others and the imperialistic drive to reduce them to transparency; the supposed subject of knowledge and the void. As they converse on these matters, they speak nearby authors from both the so-called Global South and the so-called Global North who are thus juxtaposed, further developed, and displaced towards a politics and ethics of fugitivity. What follows is an invitation to exi(s)t.
2024. dialogue; fugitivity; opacity; colonialism; knowledge production
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Firoozeh Farvardin and Nader Talebi
Challenges of Southern Knowledge Production: Reflections on/through Iran
Focusing on the specific case of knowledge production in and about Iran, in this chapter, we discuss the risk of reproducing a Northern perspective in the attempts to produce knowledge on and through the Global South(s). We argue that such reproduction leads to cognitive suppression, further peripheralization, or even recolonization of the South(s). We also stress the lasting effects of methodological nationalism among attempts at decolonization and its political consequences, such as in the adoption of nativist discourses historically connected to the ‘Islamic’ Revolution by scholars focusing on the Global South(s) and in area studies concerning Iran. To avoid these effects, we suggest considering the politics of scale in our recognition and problematization of the hierarchization of Northern and Southern sites of knowledge production and their particularities.
2024. Iran; knowledge production; methodological nationalism; decolonization; nativism; Iranian studies; politics of scale
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Şirin Fulya Erensoy
Berlin’s Killjoys: Feminist Art from the Global South
In this reflection piece, I look at the feminist artistic landscape emerging in Berlin with its growing, diverse migrant community. I examine the ways in which women* artists challenge the imposed notions of their migrant status in the city and their states of belonging within it. I demonstrate this through two feminist initiatives I have been involved in that aim to amplify the voices of women* artists whose creative practices disrupt carefully constructed frameworks relating to borders of inclusion and exclusion. I argue that the artistic practices of women* in these networks are killjoy because they unapologetically get in the way, dismantling carefully constructed frameworks that delineate borders of inclusion and exclusion. By reflecting on homemaking practices in exile, I exemplify how feminisms from the global south decentralize claims to truth by taking the means of production into their own hands. By framing the chapter around the recent protests in Berlin unfolding in solidarity with the feminist revolution in Iran, I reveal the possible limits of such actions when they do not embrace intersectionality. Ultimately, I propose to invest in feminist artistic practices that destabilize exclusionary politics by creating visibility and bridging theory and practice.
2024. Berlin; migration; women*; feminism; home; killjoy
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Mahmoud Al-Zayed
Decolonialities and the Exilic Consciousness: Thinking from the Global South
This chapter is a journey of thought exploring decolonial critique as a situated practice while thinking through exilic consciousness and its constitutive conditions. I begin by reflecting on
decolonialities
to gesture toward varied forms of decolonial projects that need to be situated, given that each location generates different sets of questions/problems that demand different answers. In this way, I reconfigure the exilic condition, and the space of displacement in general, as a plurilingual space that unsettles various colonial forms of epistemic monolingualism predicated on the self-sufficiency of thought. To this end, I reflect on the potentiality of exilic consciousness to generate decolonial critique when thinking from/about the Global South. Finally, this chapter demonstrates the significance of acknowledging the diverse locations and trajectories of decolonial critique and the plurality of thought embedded within the exilic intellectual formation that can potentially undo colonial forms of knowledge-making and being in the world.
2024. exilic consciousness; decolonization; situated knowledge; plural thought; theorizing; Global South
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Michela Coletta
History of Knowledge through the Global South: A Case for Entangled Ecologies
In this brief discussion, I reflect on the significance of using the category of the global south for reconfiguring the scope of the history of knowledge. While I see this as a productive paradigm shift that has already given rise to mould-breaking works, I focus here on the cross-hemispheric histories of extractive capitalism and how both colonial violence and anticolonial resistance have shaped knowledge-making. I argue that thinking through ‘entangled ecologies’ can be a tool for countering the existing conceptual order, which has led to the north-south division in the first place. Attending to epistemic and ontological entanglements would enable us to ask better and deeper questions about the increasingly complex interconnections across human and nonhuman worlds, especially given the planetary crises we face today.
2024. entangled ecologies; global history; Global South; history of knowledge; Latin America; periphery
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Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen
Introduction: Displacing Theory: Berlin Notes
Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen, ‘Introduction: Displacing Theory: Berlin Notes’, in
Displacing Theory Through the Global South
, ed. by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen, Cultural Inquiry, 29 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024), pp. 1-14
2024. Global South; geopolitical inequalities; knowledge production; colonialism; imperialism; Eurocentrisim; extractive capitalism; cultural relativism; positionally; power asymmetries; particularization; generalization
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Elena Lombardi
A Narrated Bi(bli)ography Preceded by a Postface and Interspersed with Notes that Lack Superscript. Also Illustrated, for that Matter. With the Addition of a One-word Glossary.
Elena Lombardi, ‘A Narrated Bi(bli)ography Preceded by a Postface and Interspersed with Notes that Lack Superscript. Also Illustrated, for that Matter. With the Addition of a One-word Glossary’., in Elena Lombardi,
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
, Cultural Inquiry, 28 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 273-305
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Elena Lombardi
Colophon
Elena Lombardi, ‘Colophon’, in Elena Lombardi,
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
, Cultural Inquiry, 28 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 265-70
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Elena Lombardi
6. All In One Place
Elena Lombardi, ‘6. All In One Place’, in Elena Lombardi,
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
, Cultural Inquiry, 28 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 213-63
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Elena Lombardi
5. It Was Sunset
Elena Lombardi, ‘5. It Was Sunset’, in Elena Lombardi,
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
, Cultural Inquiry, 28 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 173-212
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Elena Lombardi
4. ‘… And Maybe Sometime’
Elena Lombardi, ‘4. “… And Maybe Sometime”’, in Elena Lombardi,
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
, Cultural Inquiry, 28 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 125-72
2023
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Elena Lombardi
3. To Pursue Virtue and Knowledge
Elena Lombardi, ‘3. To Pursue Virtue and Knowledge’, in Elena Lombardi,
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
, Cultural Inquiry, 28 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 91-124
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Elena Lombardi
2. Sing me, o Muse, again
Elena Lombardi, ‘2. Sing me, o Muse, again’, in Elena Lombardi,
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
, Cultural Inquiry, 28 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 47-90
2023
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Elena Lombardi
1.
Lectura
Elena Lombardi, ‘1.
Lectura
’, in Elena Lombardi,
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
, Cultural Inquiry, 28 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 13-45
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Elena Lombardi
Incipit
Elena Lombardi, ‘Incipit’, in Elena Lombardi,
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
, Cultural Inquiry, 28 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 1-12
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Munira Khayyat
Of Goats and Bombs: How to Live (and Die) in an Explosive Landscape
Goats remain the most viable livestock in the warzone of South Lebanon because of their compatibility with wartime environments and ordnance. They can survive periods of scarcity during active war, occupations, or invasions by foraging for food and eating almost anything. Most crucially, goats are small and light and can graze in the borderland’s many minefields without setting off the hidden explosives designed to kill humans, who are not as light-footed. In this essay, Munira Khayyat explores how an enduring, explosive military technology is both domesticated and resisted by a homegrown, anti-mine survival assemblage.
2023. Borderland; Goats; Minefields; South Lebanon; War
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Jumana Emil Abboud
Hide Your Water from the Sun: A Performance for Spirited Waters
This essay is an excerpt from Jumana Emil Abboud’s ongoing journal, which she started keeping in 2010. With the help of photographer Issa Freij, the artist identified spirited water spots in the topography of Palestine, based on her childhood memories and a 1922 study on
Haunted Springs and Water Demons in Palestine
. The text was written as part of a performance by Abboud at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in 2016.
2023. Childhood memories; Palestine; Spirited water spots; Topography
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Nadine Hattom
Great Sand: Grains of Occupation and Representation
Nadine Hattom’s text is written as a sequel to the artist’s ‘Shadows’ series (2016), comprised of ten digitally altered photographs made from US Department of Defense public-domain images depicting Operation Iraqi Freedom. As Hattom’s piece explores migration and landscape, it untangles narratives rooted in the colours, textures, ecosystems, and geographies of the Middle East, but also in the political implications of the author’s position in the landscapes of the West.
2023. Germany; Landscape; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Sand; ‘Shadows’ series (2016); War