Positionality, gender justice, fundraiser, non-western imperialisms & Decolonial Europe Day
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RESEARCH & I: A bonfire conversation
7 May 2024 / 18:00 CET / via zoom
Co-organized by Countering the Colonial Project and {Method}ology Otherwise Research Group
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Join our bonfire conversation on “Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies” by Jasmine K. Gani and Rabea M. Khan (2024).
How and why do we inscribe the self in research? How much is too much of the self in our writing?
Locating one’s positionality is a reflexive practice central to critical and interpretive methodologies in social and political sciences. Because knowledges are always embodied, claims to knowing the social and political world are necessarily generated from somewhere. Hence, the need to be transparent about how the researcher is positioned.
In decolonial thought, we know that, in the politics of knowledge, “[n]obody escapes the class, sexual, gender, spiritual, linguistic, geographical, and racial hierarchies of the modern/colonial capitalist/patriarchal world-system” (Grosfoguel 2007, 213).
Yet in what ways does the methodological insistence on positionality end up centering the self and releasing responsibility at the expense of questioning colonial/modern power structures and hierarchies?
Womxn’s struggles and imagining justice beyond prison walls: A conversation with Silvana Tapia Tapia
16 May 2024 / 16:00 London time / via zoom
Organized by Adriana Perez-Rodriguez
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How is penality reinforced in the name of protecting women against violence? How has justice been framed in terms of carcerality and what other worldviews have been discarded? What is at stake?
In this online event, we will discuss with Silvana Tapia Tapia her most recent paper “Human Rights Penality and Violence Against Women: the Coloniality of Disembodied Justice” to delve into the intersections of human rights discourse and penality, particularly as it concerns the protection of women from violence.
Tapia Tapia’s work is grounded in the anticarceral and women’s struggles in Ecuador, which have helped her identify the tensions and contradictions that emerge when justice is defined in terms of punishment. Crucially, such delimitation takes place at the expense of eliminating different possibilities of living together based on embodiment, relationality and situated knowledge.
As part of our Countering the Colonial Project, this conversation aims to provide a space for grappling with questions of justice, feminism and decolonization at times when prison walls and criminal law are centered as the arbiters of imagination.
About our fellow traveller
Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia is a research fellow at Birmingham Law School where she looks at non-penal human rights alternatives to respond to violence against women from a feminist and decolonial perspective. Silvana is the author of the book “Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform. Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador”, published by Routledge in 2022. This book won the Hart Publishing-Socio-Legal Studies Association book prize last year.
Silvana has worked as Assistant Professor of Law and Coordinator of Research at Universidad del Azuay’s Law School (Ecuador). Her research on domestic violence has been consulted by Ecuadorian municipalities and used by immigration courts in the USA to inform their decisions to grant asylum to Ecuadorian women fleeing violence. Silvana has had six successful cases so far. Silvana also collaborated as editor in the production of the 2020 Shadow Report for the CEDAW Committee, prepared by the National Coalition of Women (Ecuador).
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We wish to thank the following people for their generous donations: Anissa Bougrea, Andi Shiraz, Maria c de vivanco, Taraf Abu Hamdan, Sarah Werner-Boada, Danielle Hidalgo, Hieyoon KIM, Ina Martin, Serene Khader, Rosa Terlazzo, Rohit Sarma, Wen-Yu Wu, Johannes Bruder, Adam Smith, Arianna Mohiuddin, Carolina Braglia Aloise Bertazolli, and Szilvia Nagy.
The Imperial Logic of Mall(urb)icide
by Oliver Banatvala
This essay is the latest addition to our south/south dialogues: Beyond the colonial vortex of the ‘West’: Subverting non-western imperialisms before and after 24 February 2022.
In it, Oliver Banatlava thinks through russia’s wrecking of malls in Ukrainian urban spaces as orientalising, power to control, and ruskii mir.
9 May 2024 / via zoom
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The Decolonial Europe Day is an initiative that uses the occasion of Europe Day (9 May every year) to bring together existing decolonising initiatives, civil society organisations and other actors around the common project of decolonising Europe, understood as an ongoing process.
See the programme here.
Call for co-organizers
If you are interested in co-organizing, please write to us at organize@southsouthmovement.org. More particularly, we are looking to host a session on the metropolitan university’s response to pro-Palestine student mobilizations in the Global North. We also need organizational support in chairing/facilitating our writing workshops. More generally, we would be more than happy to welcome new co-organizers in support of our existing projects.
As an independent collective, we operate without any financial backing from any university or formal funding body whatsoever, and our work is powered by volunteer doctoral students in increasingly precarious conditions. In other words, co-organizing with us is pro bono and built on an ethics of care and doing things differently outside the ivory tower.
In solidarity,
South/South Movement co-organizers
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