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- Convenors:
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Caroline Gatt
(University of Graz)
Idjahure Kadiwel (Universidade de São Paulo)
Francy Baniwa
Ty Tengan (University of Hawaii at Mānoa)
Zoy Anastassakis (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Luiz Fontes
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- Format:
- Workshop
- Location:
- G3
- Sessions:
- Tuesday 25 June, -, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
The workshop offers concrete examples of pedagogies for pluriversal anthropologies. Participants will engage with three ways of teaching anthropology: Two developed by Indigenous anthropologists to appropriately share their respective knowledges; one offering a transnational improvisational pedagogy
Long Abstract:
Anthropologists at different times and places have long called for and worked towards decolonizing in order to address unethical disciplinary practices. With the #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter movements decolonizing has finally gained widespread attention even within dominant anthropologies. Gupta’s 2021 AAA presidential address presented a speculative history of US anthropology, had it been founded as a decolonizing project. And yet, anthropology in most universities continues to be a ‘defacto white public space’, where students, and staff, of colour are subjected to various forms of discrimination and aggression (Jobson 2020, Bafo and Dattatreyan 2021, Schuller and Abreu 2022). Indeed, the elephant in most anthropology classrooms is the virtually unquestioned epistemic coloniality in how it is taught.
A key factor in the tenacity of coloniality in classrooms is the difficulty anthropologists have in being responsive to what students have to offer, for both institutional and pedagogical reasons. Therefore, in this workshop participants will engage with three ways of sharing and teaching anthropological knowledge that develop ethical, responsive and decolonizing pedagogies. Two ways have been developed by Indigenous anthropologists to appropriately and respectfully share their respective knowledges. One way draws on a transnational non-hegemonic improvisational way of knowing, which provincializes ‘European’ ways of knowing.
The workshop will explore pedagogical and improvisational skills for teaching anthropology by means of different ways of knowing. The aim is to move towards pluriversal anthropologies, where such knowledges, and the people who bear them, are not only valued, but understood as vital to scholarship and education (Robinson 2020).