WEBINAR: Decolonising the metropole?
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🌱 Kaikōrero / Speaker: Rachel Jane Liebert + Tehseen Noorani
🌱 Ringa hāpai / Chair: Isla Whittington
🔥 Webinar format: Fireside Chat
White and brown, immigrant and citizen, coloniser and colonised, we will discuss our different experiences of coloniality and decoloniality when living and working together in London.
Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s self-described ‘final prayer’ for revolution –“O my body, make of me always a human who questions!” – our discussion will be guided by questions that have emerged out of our embodied experiences and praxes: What does it mean to be indigenous in England? What does it mean to be white? What could an intersectional decoloniality look like? What is the role of the land? The psyche? Is decolonisation becoming a buzzword? Co-opted? What are the geopolitics of this work?
What does it mean to “decolonise the metropole”?
★ RACHEL JANE LIEBERT ★
University of East London and Visiting Scholar, Whāriki
Rachel Jane Liebert is a Pākehā New Zealander currently based at the University of East London as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology.
Seeking to breach the genocidal legacies of her settler and intellectual ancestry, she collaborates with decolonising and feminist scholarship, art and activism around madness, whiteness and education. Most recently her book – Psycurity: Colonialism, Paranoia and the War on Imagination – came out with Routledge in 2019. You can see this and some of her other projects here at www.racheljaneliebert.com
★ TEHSEEN NOORANI ★
Durham University and Visiting Scholar, Whāriki
Tehseen Noorani is a British Indian based in Anthropology at Durham University. He is writing a monograph at the intersections of psychedelic experiences and madness, situated in contexts of medicalization and the global war on drugs.
This research draws mostly from ethnographic sites on the east coast of the United States, interwoven with analyses of psychiatry and the mental health service user/survivor movement. The book understands both psychedelic experiences and madness as ‘limit experiences’, each with a complex and layered relationship to spirituality.
On the day, go to: https://zoom.us/j/347751386
🌱 Ringa hāpai / Chair: Isla Whittington
🔥 Webinar format: Fireside Chat
White and brown, immigrant and citizen, coloniser and colonised, we will discuss our different experiences of coloniality and decoloniality when living and working together in London.
Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s self-described ‘final prayer’ for revolution –“O my body, make of me always a human who questions!” – our discussion will be guided by questions that have emerged out of our embodied experiences and praxes: What does it mean to be indigenous in England? What does it mean to be white? What could an intersectional decoloniality look like? What is the role of the land? The psyche? Is decolonisation becoming a buzzword? Co-opted? What are the geopolitics of this work?
What does it mean to “decolonise the metropole”?
★ RACHEL JANE LIEBERT ★
University of East London and Visiting Scholar, Whāriki
Rachel Jane Liebert is a Pākehā New Zealander currently based at the University of East London as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology.
Seeking to breach the genocidal legacies of her settler and intellectual ancestry, she collaborates with decolonising and feminist scholarship, art and activism around madness, whiteness and education. Most recently her book – Psycurity: Colonialism, Paranoia and the War on Imagination – came out with Routledge in 2019. You can see this and some of her other projects here at www.racheljaneliebert.com
★ TEHSEEN NOORANI ★
Durham University and Visiting Scholar, Whāriki
Tehseen Noorani is a British Indian based in Anthropology at Durham University. He is writing a monograph at the intersections of psychedelic experiences and madness, situated in contexts of medicalization and the global war on drugs.
This research draws mostly from ethnographic sites on the east coast of the United States, interwoven with analyses of psychiatry and the mental health service user/survivor movement. The book understands both psychedelic experiences and madness as ‘limit experiences’, each with a complex and layered relationship to spirituality.
On the day, go to: https://zoom.us/j/347751386
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Starts on
Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 2:30 PM NZDT
Ends on
Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 3:30 PM NZDT