"Inhuman" Literacies: Beyond a Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Papers in this panel challenge how literacy practices and education more broadly reflect and reproduce the world views and communicative practices rooted in the western epistemological conceptualization humanity where those who are ‘inhuman’ are always left out. Papers in this panel decenter the overrepresented “Man” (Wynter, 2003) as the subject and agent of educational practice, and argue for affective, anti-colonial, unsettled, and inhuman accounts of ‘literacies.’ Papers draw from a variety of theoretical orientations such as new materialisms, critical race theories, critical disability studies, postcolonial theory, affect theory, schizoanalysis, and literary scholarship.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 1: Culture and Commentary (The Readings/Makings of Curriculum)

Chair

• Sarah E. Truman, Manchester Metropolitan University (ESRI)

Papers

• Literacy, Feeling, and the Inhuman - Aparna Mishra Tarc

• Affective Impasses: The Art of Refusing to Be Included in English Literature Class - Sarah E. Truman, Manchester Metropolitan University (ESRI)

• Toward a Schizoanalytic Approach to Educating the Disabled Inhuman - Gail M. Boldt, The Pennsylvania State University; Joseph Michael Valente, The Pennsylvania State University

• Teaching Humanity: Literary Imagining and "the Overrepresentation of Man" - Asilia K Franklin-Phipps, University of Oregon; Courtney Rath, University of Oregon