Creatively in Coalition” from Palestine to India

Weaving stories of refusal and community as decolonial praxis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7100511
AutoresD G Atallah (0000-0002-9310-505X, Department of Psychology University of Massachusetts Boston Boston Massachusetts USA, autor correspondente), U Dutta (0000-0003-2529-0916, Department of Psychology University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell Massachusetts USA)
Ano2021
Volume78
Fascículo2
Páginas434-451
Data de publicação2021-06-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/josi.12460
OpenAlexW3172678148
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas29

Colonialism and coloniality constitute the backbone of modernity. Colonial structures/systems are predicated on recurring patterns of domination and violence. Decolonial movements are rehumanizing and abolitionist projects guided by Global South peoples’ reimagining and reclaiming of what it means to be human. Decolonial praxes therefore require transnational efforts to decenter Whitestream academic institutions as hubs of knowledge production. In light of this, we question the boundaries of what we consider to be research in psychology as we walk in the legacies of struggle and survival—of our grandmothers and grandfathers, and so many ancestors who never used the word “decolonial”. Weaving together stories of refusal and community grounded on our work in Palestine and India, we demonstrate how our decolonial strivings require us to continuously rediscover ways of being present, being in struggle, and being human together as we work ‘‘creatively in coalition’’ with our communities. Through our stories of accompaniment, and bringing them into conversation with each other, we disrupt violent, colonially‐configured borders. In our world‐making coalitions and the writing of this article, we turn to a praxis that allows for the revisioning of justice as irresistible and interlinked, ungovernable and in defiance of borders and walls

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