“Disintegration, Communality, and the Decolonial”

• In Event: The Practice of Decolonial Epistemological Praxis

Abstract

This paper will further explore reflections on the social precarity that creates the experience of being disintegrated as someone of value, of living in threads, with a fear that eats at one’s capacity for reflection. Communality is a practice that enables a sense of self through being for others. When is the communal decolonial, how might such (re)creation of self be personally and socially decolonial? What are the tensions to be negotiated, resisted, and transformed? I will elaborate on Lugones (2002, 2010) and other thinkers such as Anzaldua (1987) on what might meaningfully, personally constitute resistance and hope.

Presenter

• Maria Lugones, Binghamton University