An Autoethnographic Kinning Case Study of Participatory Violence and Fugitive Convivial Praxis in the University

• In Event: The Power Of (Un)Forgetting, Historical Consciousness And Decolonial Future Of Education

Abstract

Situated in the imperial core, the neoliberal U.S. American university is a site of colonial violence, betrayal, and obfuscation. As reports of faculty encounters with university-sanctioned disciplinary actions increase, the role of bystanders in bolstering colonial violence remains underexamined. Pivoting framings of participatory violence and fugitive convivial praxis, we—two doctoral students and faculty mentor—engage in autoethnographic kinning to interrogate a case study of university disciplinary actions against the faculty mentor. Considering the relational roles of bystanders and participants, we invite you to join us in considering what it means to be a witness to/target of violence within, through, against, and beyond our higher education institutions, and how may we collectively conspire amidst the violences.

Authors

• Sahar D. Sattarzadeh, Nelson Mandela University

• Charlie Parker, University of Colorado - Denver

• Daranee Taychachaiwongse Teng, University of Colorado - Denver