Colonialism, Conviviality, and Othering: An International Perspective

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Conviviality tends to denote an ideal where individuals and groups from different political, racial, or cultural experiences come together to live in harmony, leaving conflict behind. Our concern with conviviality in this symposium emerges from an interest in interrogating and problematizing how notions of the human and less than human come to be leveraged in the mobilization of discourses and practices of conviviality in schools and society more broadly. We are keen to understand the colonial logics that sustain the institutionalization of conviviality in education and its material and symbolic consequences. This is a political concern to trace how the colonial logics about what it means to be human still circulate in contemporary schools and societies through discourses of conviviality.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education

Chair

• Belén Hernando-Lloréns, University of Iowa

Papers

• Against Safety at School: Young People Resisting a Dangerous Conviviality Regime - Marta Estelles, University of Waikato

• Challenging Convivial Imaginations: Ancestral Pueblos’ Contestations to Fundamental Education in Ecuador - Gioconda Pamela Coello, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Desiring Conviviliaty as the Emancipatory Heart of an Erotic Pedagogy - Leonora Beniscelli Contreras, Universidad Alberto Hurtado; Kyuttzza Gómez Guinart, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Discussant

• Cameron R. McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign