Shanya Cordi
Biographic Data
| ID | 669837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shanya Cordi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shanya |
| FAMILY NAME | Cordi |
| SIGNATURE | CORDI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Africa Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4582-4578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Erotic Chaos of Black and Indigenous Futures
Tiffany King's poetic and theoretically compelling text is both an invitation and disturbance, or a provocation to be unmoored, to be thrown into chaos and to place one's feet at the shoal of something other than traditional (normative) notions of sovereignty, nation, and citizenship. As a metaphor, a methodological meditation, and a Black feminist theoretical framework, King conceptualizes the “Black shoal” as “liminal, indeterminate, and hard t…
A poetics of living rebellion
In this experimental year-in-review article, we center the everyday, ongoing, and emergent rebellions of livingness against imbricated structures of antiblackness and Indigenous erasure that shape carceral global landscapes to think with the premise that "liberation is an already existing and unfinished and unmet possibility" (McKittrick 2021, 13). We do so through engaging what Orisanmi Burton (2021, 2) theorizes as the "ethnographic and politic…
In Guyana, Colonial Regimes Power the New Oil Frontier
When the world came to a standstill in early 2020, the grinding halt animated ripples in Guyana’s burgeoning oil industry. Like other countries, Guyana closed its borders, imposed a curfew, and shu
Settler Unfreedoms
This essay troubles the theoretical impasses wrought by overdetermined framings of settler colonial theory in order to understand the relationship between blackness and indigeneity. While the framework disrupts Native erasure, the language of “incommensurability” that is increasingly deployed to make sense of the particularity of blackness and indigeneity extends settler logics, or what I refer to as “settler unfreedoms.” Drawing on Black and Ind…
Forging Relational Difference
Building on black and indigenous feminist scholarship, this essay examines the mutually constitutive processes of racial gendered violence and colonial dispossession undergirding Guyanese statecraft. Through an analysis of the colonial construction of the racial-sexual bodies of Amerindian and Afro-and Indo-creole women, it argues that these imbricated violences may better be understood through a feminist analytic and praxis of relational differe…
The Limitations and Liberatory Potential of Feminist Anthropology (Part One)
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
In this essay, we point to the ways in which activist research methodologies have been complicit with the dominant logics of traditional research methods, including notions of fieldwork as a masculinist rite of passage. Paradoxically, while activist research narrates the experiences of violence enacted on racialized, gendered (queer and gender-nonconforming) bodies, the complexities of doing anthropology with those same bodies have tended to be e…
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
In this essay, we point to the ways in which activist research methodologies have been complicit with the dominant logics of traditional research methods, including notions of fieldwork as a masculinist rite of passage. Paradoxically, while activist research narrates the experiences of violence enacted on racialized, gendered (queer and gender-nonconforming) bodies, the complexities of doing anthropology with those same bodies have tended to be e…
Forging Relational Difference
Building on black and indigenous feminist scholarship, this essay examines the mutually constitutive processes of racial gendered violence and colonial dispossession undergirding Guyanese statecraft. Through an analysis of the colonial construction of the racial-sexual bodies of Amerindian and Afro-and Indo-creole women, it argues that these imbricated violences may better be understood through a feminist analytic and praxis of relational differe…
A poetics of living rebellion
In this experimental year-in-review article, we center the everyday, ongoing, and emergent rebellions of livingness against imbricated structures of antiblackness and Indigenous erasure that shape carceral global landscapes to think with the premise that "liberation is an already existing and unfinished and unmet possibility" (McKittrick 2021, 13). We do so through engaging what Orisanmi Burton (2021, 2) theorizes as the "ethnographic and politic…
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
In this essay, we point to the ways in which activist research methodologies have been complicit with the dominant logics of traditional research methods, including notions of fieldwork as a masculinist rite of passage. Paradoxically, while activist research narrates the experiences of violence enacted on racialized, gendered (queer and gender-nonconforming) bodies, the complexities of doing anthropology with those same bodies have tended to be e…
The Limitations and Liberatory Potential of Feminist Anthropology (Part One)
Settler Unfreedoms
This essay troubles the theoretical impasses wrought by overdetermined framings of settler colonial theory in order to understand the relationship between blackness and indigeneity. While the framework disrupts Native erasure, the language of “incommensurability” that is increasingly deployed to make sense of the particularity of blackness and indigeneity extends settler logics, or what I refer to as “settler unfreedoms.” Drawing on Black and Ind…
Forging Relational Difference
Building on black and indigenous feminist scholarship, this essay examines the mutually constitutive processes of racial gendered violence and colonial dispossession undergirding Guyanese statecraft. Through an analysis of the colonial construction of the racial-sexual bodies of Amerindian and Afro-and Indo-creole women, it argues that these imbricated violences may better be understood through a feminist analytic and praxis of relational differe…
In Guyana, Colonial Regimes Power the New Oil Frontier
When the world came to a standstill in early 2020, the grinding halt animated ripples in Guyana’s burgeoning oil industry. Like other countries, Guyana closed its borders, imposed a curfew, and shu
The Erotic Chaos of Black and Indigenous Futures
Tiffany King's poetic and theoretically compelling text is both an invitation and disturbance, or a provocation to be unmoored, to be thrown into chaos and to place one's feet at the shoal of something other than traditional (normative) notions of sovereignty, nation, and citizenship. As a metaphor, a methodological meditation, and a Black feminist theoretical framework, King conceptualizes the “Black shoal” as “liminal, indeterminate, and hard t…
A poetics of living rebellion
In this experimental year-in-review article, we center the everyday, ongoing, and emergent rebellions of livingness against imbricated structures of antiblackness and Indigenous erasure that shape carceral global landscapes to think with the premise that "liberation is an already existing and unfinished and unmet possibility" (McKittrick 2021, 13). We do so through engaging what Orisanmi Burton (2021, 2) theorizes as the "ethnographic and politic…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works)