Morocco: A Group Hesitation

• In Event: Decolonizing Pedagogies: Global Perspectives on Liberation, Literacy, and Learning

Abstract

This essay is a collaborative autoethnography that explores our own relationships to decoloniality based on our visit to Morocco. We each tell our own story, but each story is the product not only of our reflexivity about the hesitations we experienced in Morocco, but also of the hesitations we experienced during our collaborative writing process. We found these moments of hesitation–at times clumsy, at times angering–to be generative in slowly unweaving the ways in which we are bound up with what Alia Al-Saji refers to as the colonial duration–the ways that the past is present. We all struggled to disentangle our own colonialities. Perhaps we can transform our praxis by hesitating toward decoloniality.

Authors

• David G. Stanton, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Diana Chandara, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Insil Jeon, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• AK O'Loughlin, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Eskender A Yousuf, University of Minnesota