Historical Inquiries to Make “the history”: Unrevealing History from Visuals in the Cold War era

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 2:15 pm

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The symposium explores historical inquiries through visual representations of the Cold War era to illustrate the complicity between coloniality and state formation. Historical inquiry is a way of problematizing dominant narratives of history. These inquiries, such as historicizing, regimes of historicity, and decolonizing settler colonialism, examine how social norms were fabricated during the Cold War and how they have influenced societies beyond that period. Moreover, the session examines various visuals such as cartoons, animation, and pamphlets that historically shaped how we think about students and educational spaces, which function as the techniques of coloniality. This symposium contributes to understanding different historical inquiries from visual materials in education, and uncovering the techniques of coloniality of knowledge and state formation.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Chair

• Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Examining the Making of the Post-WWII Literary Citizen through the Concept of "Regime of Historicity" - Britt-Marie Zeidler, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Historicizing Decoloniality in Higher Education: Roger Buffalohead, AIS, and Indigenous Community Insurgency of Minnesota - Christopher J. Getowicz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• How Coloniality Becomes Possible in the Name of Health - Xue Yin, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Historicizing the Notion of Democratic Citizenship: Revealing Coloniality Through Visuals - Younsun Choi, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Session Organizer

• Younsun Choi, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussants

• Stephen J. Jackson, University of Kansas

• Sun Young Lee, Wichita State University