CIDRN Seminar: Dismantling the Master's House Rethinking Critical Social Inquiry as Freedom Dreaming
Event description
CIDRN Seminar: Dismantling the Master's House- Rethinking Critical Social Inquiry as Freedom Dreaming
Time and Day: Thursday, September 26th 11 am
Location: Online
Presented by: Urmitapa Dutta
Associate Professor of Psychology; Chair, UMass
Lowell Greeley Peace Scholar Program University of Massachusetts Lowell
Seminar Description:
What does it mean to reimagine social inquiry as the academy, nation state regimes, markets, and sentinels of putrefying Eurocentric imagination discipline the terms of what it means to be human? Drawing upon the wisdom of Black, Indigenous, Palestinian, and other feminists of color, I explore what it means to bear faithful witness to (settler) colonial violence and genocide. Situated in the context of Israeli settler colonial occupation and the persecution of Palestinian knowledge traditions and knowledge keepers, this talk maps a defiant methodology that resists analytic closure. Reflecting on scenes from occupied Palestine and weaving together insights from decolonial scholar-activists, I center the body as insurgent knowledge and method to counter settler colonial logics of elimination.
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