Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas
In Refusals and Reinventions, artist-scholar-organizer Daniel Coleman considers his critical trajectories and participation in intersectional justice struggles in the US and Mexico, situating them within larger abolitionist and decolonial movements for Black civil rights and Native/Indigenous sovereignty. He identifies how Black and Indigenous people create, exist in, and reclaim many worlds—the pluriverse—through their artistic refusals and reinventions. Coleman thus contributes to a growing body of pluriversal thought, inspired by the Zapatista motto “a world in which many worlds fit.” Charting previously unrecognized connections among the creative struggles of Indigenous people in southern Mexico and Black people in the southern United States, Coleman draws on performance praxis, decolonial pedagogies, and Afro-diasporic and Native/Indigenous cosmologies to frame four case studies of people refusing racialized, gendered violences as world-making tools. In looking at creative responses among activists in Chiapas and in North Carolina, Coleman uses transfeminist, Black feminist, and decolonial frameworks to ask: How do creative insurgent practices give us access to our humanity? And what do praxis and engaged witnessing have to teach us about what worlds from the pluriverse hold?
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Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas
In Refusals and Reinventions, artist-scholar-organizer Daniel Coleman considers his critical trajectories and participation in intersectional justice struggles in the US and Mexico, situating them within larger abolitionist and decolonial movements for Black civil rights and Native/Indigenous sovereignty. He identifies how Black and Indigenous people create, exist in, and reclaim many worlds—the pluriverse—through their artistic refusals and reinventions. Coleman thus contributes to a growing body of pluriversal thought, inspired by the Zapatista motto “a world in which many worlds fit.” Charting previously unrecognized connections among the creative struggles of Indigenous people in southern Mexico and Black people in the southern United States, Coleman draws on performance praxis, decolonial pedagogies, and Afro-diasporic and Native/Indigenous cosmologies to frame four case studies of people refusing racialized, gendered violences as world-making tools. In looking at creative responses among activists in Chiapas and in North Carolina, Coleman uses transfeminist, Black feminist, and decolonial frameworks to ask: How do creative insurgent practices give us access to our humanity? And what do praxis and engaged witnessing have to teach us about what worlds from the pluriverse hold?
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Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

by Daniel Ìgbín'bí Coleman
Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas
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Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

by Daniel Ìgbín'bí Coleman

Overview

In Refusals and Reinventions, artist-scholar-organizer Daniel Coleman considers his critical trajectories and participation in intersectional justice struggles in the US and Mexico, situating them within larger abolitionist and decolonial movements for Black civil rights and Native/Indigenous sovereignty. He identifies how Black and Indigenous people create, exist in, and reclaim many worlds—the pluriverse—through their artistic refusals and reinventions. Coleman thus contributes to a growing body of pluriversal thought, inspired by the Zapatista motto “a world in which many worlds fit.” Charting previously unrecognized connections among the creative struggles of Indigenous people in southern Mexico and Black people in the southern United States, Coleman draws on performance praxis, decolonial pedagogies, and Afro-diasporic and Native/Indigenous cosmologies to frame four case studies of people refusing racialized, gendered violences as world-making tools. In looking at creative responses among activists in Chiapas and in North Carolina, Coleman uses transfeminist, Black feminist, and decolonial frameworks to ask: How do creative insurgent practices give us access to our humanity? And what do praxis and engaged witnessing have to teach us about what worlds from the pluriverse hold?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814215647
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 03/27/2024
Pages: 186
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman (he/they) is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Africana Studies at Georgia State University.

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The book in your hands or on your screen is a listening practice from several creative portals of entry. Through these portals, we will gain insights into ways of being/becoming and creating knowledge (thinking/doing) made possible only by acknowledging our many worlds. The book adds its voice to the scholarship aimed at challenging the modern world’s “algorithms of completion,” the carefully calculated manipulations of congealed notions of human-made hierarchies and meanings for the purposes of modernity’s own perpetuation, controlling who we are allowed to be and what we are allowed to know. Said differently, Refusals and Reinventions is an exercise in all that can be learned and gained by decentering some of the dominant, absented, and Euro-ethnocentric modern humanist delusions about superior and singular ways of being and knowing. We live for something else.

In Refusals and Reinventions, when I refer to the many worlds within this one, I am referring to the concept of the “pluriverse,” offering my scholarship to the endeavors of other decolonial thinkers. I understand the conceptual work of the pluriversal way of seeing to be one of presencing and documenting some of the ongoing existences of our many worlds and their knowledge-life practices around the globe. As a form of practice, the pluriverse refers to “heterogeneous worldings coming together as a political ecology of practices, negotiating their difficult being together in heterogeneity.”Through pluriversal thinking and the pluriverse, we can re-envision being/becoming and thinking/doing in the face of the collapsing and endlessly mutating modern/colonial global neoliberal capitalist world system.

One of the originating conceptual frameworks for the pluriverse—relevant to this work—comes from the Zapatista emblem “un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos” or “a world in which many worlds fit.” I think of the pluriverse, within the parameters of this book, as a framework for thinking about being/becoming and thinking/doing that recognizes the epistemological “fact” that “people believe different things about reality” and the ontological “fact” that “there are different realities being done in different practices” all within and beyond what we, as a species, tend to loosely call “the” world. For the sake of clarity throughout the book, when I use “thinking/doing,” I am referring to epistemology, and when I use “being/becoming,” I am referring to ontology (I will unravel some of the nuances and reappropriations I move with for each of these Western terms in forthcoming chapters).

A central question guides the selection of four creative “case studies” that we will use to address the more abstract philosophical conundrums of this pluriversal book: What are some examples of political and creative projects that demonstrate, on the ground, how we can practice something other than what is given to us within the enclosures of “the” world—the purported singular totality that manages the operations of the present modern/colonial global neoliberal capitalist world order—for people not situated at the primary axes of power?

Table of Contents

Introduction Por/Para la Vida / For Life Chapter 1 A Full-Dignified-Just Life: Insurgent Grief Chapter 2 The Wake Work of M/otherhood Chapter 3 Into the Trans Break Chapter 4 Shoal Ecopoetics and Otroas Coda Tuning In to the Wood Wide Web
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