From Tatreez to Tejido: Weaving Hemispheric Constellations of Kinship Into Higher Education

• In Event: The Geopolitical Economic of Knowledge Production

Abstract

Euro-American higher education institutions (HEIs) are transnational colonial and/or imperialist projects. We are reminded that it is impossible to find love in anti-relational colleges and universities that are “incapable of loving [us] back” and that it is best to build relations subversively in the undercommons. In this paper, we invite you to join us in reimagining a relational otherwise through a conceptual framing of hemispheric constellations of weaving that center kinship in our current and future HEIs with human and greater-than-human kin. Challenging oppressive Eurocentric and U.S. centric higher education designs, our conceptual framework of weaving is in citational kinship with Black, Indigenous, Latin American, Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA), feminist, queer, intergenerational, ancestral, hemispheric, being, and doing/living.

Authors

• Pablo Montes, Texas Christian University

• Sahar D. Sattarzadeh, Nelson Mandela University/The University of Texas at Arlington