Beenash Jafri
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3587485 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Beenash Jafri |
| NOMBRES | Beenash |
| APELLIDO | Jafri |
| FIRMA | JAFRI B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Assemblages of Asian Settler Colonial Critique
Critical Kashmir Studies and Asian Settler Colonial Critique
Native Survivance and the Violent Pleasures of Resignifying the Cowboy
Native Survivance and the Violent Pleasures of Resignifying the Cowboy Beenash Jafri (bio) Cowboy, curated by Nora Burnett Abrams, Miranda Lash, and Ellen Bruss, September 29, 2023–February 18, 2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The myth of the cowboy is ubiquitous, not just in the US, but—because of the transnational reach of US empire and Hollywood film—across the world. If the cowboy is an icon of American colonial-imperial violence, it …
Suicide-in-Relation
The Black Shoals Dossier
This dossier collects four reflections on 'The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies' (2019) with responses by its author Tiffany Lethabo King. This dossier is based on an American Studies Association 2021 roundtable organized by Beenash Jafri
Reframing Suicide
What can narratives of suicide tell us about diasporic and Indigenous relationships to the white settler state? This article engages relational critique to examine trans/femme/bisexual South Asian Canadian filmmaker Vivek Shraya's short film I want to kill myself (2017) and queer Cree/Métis filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones's feature film Fire Song (2015). Both films challenge the spectacularity of suicide, effectively situating suicide on a continuum …
Refusal/film
This essay situates the cultural-political practices of non-Indigenous, racialized diasporas with Audra Simpson’s concept of refusal. I frame diasporic film that generates alternatives to settler colonial relationships and imaginaries in terms of ongoing practices of diasporic refusal. To elaborate on what this refusal can look like, I turn to South Asian Canadian filmmaker Ali Kazimi’s experimental documentary Shooting Indians: A Journey with Je…
Ongoing Colonial Violence in Settler States
Response to J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, "A Structure, Not an Event: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity," published in Lateral 5.1. Jafri articulates how a critical race feminist/queer lens makes possible thinking that sees the repetitions of racialized, gendered, sexualized colonial violence
Black Representations of Settlement on Film
This article develops a method for analyzing Indigenous erasure in popular film that focuses not on the representations (or lack thereof) of Indigenous peoples but on representations of settlement. Whereas much of the scholarship on Native representations in film has been concerned with Hollywood's promulgation of the 'mythical Indian,' I argue that a focus on settlement-rather than on bodies-is significant in the context of the ongoing, unfinish…
Desire, Settler Colonialism, and the Racialized Cowboy
In this paper, I argue that settler colonialism is a project of desire, and that attention to desire is particularly useful for understanding the relationship between racialized subjects, whose access to political power in settler regimes is tenuous and uneven. Drawing upon psychoanalytically-inflected theories of race, I examine how this desire is articulated, and look to its effects. To do so, I offer a reading of the 2004 South Asian-American …
Ongoing Colonial Violence in Settler States
Response to J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, "A Structure, Not an Event: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity," published in Lateral 5.1. Jafri articulates how a critical race feminist/queer lens makes possible thinking that sees the repetitions of racialized, gendered, sexualized colonial violence
Reframing Suicide
What can narratives of suicide tell us about diasporic and Indigenous relationships to the white settler state? This article engages relational critique to examine trans/femme/bisexual South Asian Canadian filmmaker Vivek Shraya's short film I want to kill myself (2017) and queer Cree/Métis filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones's feature film Fire Song (2015). Both films challenge the spectacularity of suicide, effectively situating suicide on a continuum …
Desire, Settler Colonialism, and the Racialized Cowboy
In this paper, I argue that settler colonialism is a project of desire, and that attention to desire is particularly useful for understanding the relationship between racialized subjects, whose access to political power in settler regimes is tenuous and uneven. Drawing upon psychoanalytically-inflected theories of race, I examine how this desire is articulated, and look to its effects. To do so, I offer a reading of the 2004 South Asian-American …
Ongoing Colonial Violence in Settler States
Response to J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, "A Structure, Not an Event: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity," published in Lateral 5.1. Jafri articulates how a critical race feminist/queer lens makes possible thinking that sees the repetitions of racialized, gendered, sexualized colonial violence
Black Representations of Settlement on Film
This article develops a method for analyzing Indigenous erasure in popular film that focuses not on the representations (or lack thereof) of Indigenous peoples but on representations of settlement. Whereas much of the scholarship on Native representations in film has been concerned with Hollywood's promulgation of the 'mythical Indian,' I argue that a focus on settlement-rather than on bodies-is significant in the context of the ongoing, unfinish…
Refusal/film
This essay situates the cultural-political practices of non-Indigenous, racialized diasporas with Audra Simpson’s concept of refusal. I frame diasporic film that generates alternatives to settler colonial relationships and imaginaries in terms of ongoing practices of diasporic refusal. To elaborate on what this refusal can look like, I turn to South Asian Canadian filmmaker Ali Kazimi’s experimental documentary Shooting Indians: A Journey with Je…
Reframing Suicide
What can narratives of suicide tell us about diasporic and Indigenous relationships to the white settler state? This article engages relational critique to examine trans/femme/bisexual South Asian Canadian filmmaker Vivek Shraya's short film I want to kill myself (2017) and queer Cree/Métis filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones's feature film Fire Song (2015). Both films challenge the spectacularity of suicide, effectively situating suicide on a continuum …
The Black Shoals Dossier
This dossier collects four reflections on 'The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies' (2019) with responses by its author Tiffany Lethabo King. This dossier is based on an American Studies Association 2021 roundtable organized by Beenash Jafri
Native Survivance and the Violent Pleasures of Resignifying the Cowboy
Native Survivance and the Violent Pleasures of Resignifying the Cowboy Beenash Jafri (bio) Cowboy, curated by Nora Burnett Abrams, Miranda Lash, and Ellen Bruss, September 29, 2023–February 18, 2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The myth of the cowboy is ubiquitous, not just in the US, but—because of the transnational reach of US empire and Hollywood film—across the world. If the cowboy is an icon of American colonial-imperial violence, it …
Suicide-in-Relation
Assemblages of Asian Settler Colonial Critique
Critical Kashmir Studies and Asian Settler Colonial Critique
Sociology (7 obras) · Colonialism (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Art history (3 obras) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras)