Racial Ontologies and New Materialist Methodologies

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 38

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium thinks-with the productive critiques that Indigenous, critical race, queer and trans scholars have brought to the more-than-human turn. Queer, trans, disability, Indigenous and critical race scholars argue that while a focus on the more-than-human is necessary, we need to also question whose conception of humanity the new materialisms and the ‘posts’ are trying to move beyond. This means re-thinking posthumanism not as a politics of inclusion for those enslaved or colonized under liberal humanist ideals, but as a strategy of transforming humanism. The papers in this symposium take up issues of race, Indigeneity, and the inhuman to develop anti-colonial methodologies and understandings of matter that do not continue to place Whiteness at the centre.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chairs

• Stephanie Springgay, OISE/University of Toronto

• Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University

Papers

• Toward a Hauntology on Data: On the Sociopolitical Forces of Data Assemblages - Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman, The University of Pennsylvania

• Countercartographic Methodologies and Geographies of Race - Stephanie Springgay, OISE/University of Toronto; Sarah E. Truman, Manchester Metropolitan University (ESRI)

• Racism as an Agent: Applications of Posthumanist Theory to the Study of Institutionalized Racism - Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon