1. From rhetorical 'inclusion' toward decolonial futures
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Kazi Sharowar Hussain, Wahida Parveez, Manjuwara Mullah, Abdul Kalam Azad, Urmitapa Dutta, and Athena Institute
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Miya community ,Health (social science) ,SDG 16 - Peace ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Colonialism ,Violence ,Economic Justice ,Injustice ,Social Justice ,Humans ,Sociology ,Applied Psychology ,media_common ,Oppression ,Structural violence ,Praxis ,Data Collection ,Mental Disorders ,SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Global South ,Refusal ,Solidarity ,Justice and Strong Institutions ,Aesthetics ,Storytelling ,Liminality ,Decolonial praxis - Abstract
In this paper, we name and uplift the ways in which Miya community workers are building communities of resistance as ways to address the manifold colonial, structural (including state-sponsored), and epistemic violence in their lives. These active spaces of refusal and resistance constitute the grounds of our theorizing. Centering this theory in the flesh, we offer critical implications for decolonial liberatory praxis, specifically community-engaged praxis in solidarity with people's struggles. In doing so, we speak to questions such as: What are the range of ways in which Global South communities are coming together to tackle various forms of political, social, epistemic, and racial injustice? What are ways of doing, being, and knowing that are produced at the borders and liminal zones? What are the varied ways in which people understand and name solidarities, alliances, and relationalities in pursuit of justice? We engage with these questions from our radically rooted places in Miya people's struggles via storytelling that not only confronts the historical and ongoing oppression, but also upholds desire—Interweaving and honoring rage, grief, pain, creativity, love, and communality.
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- 2022