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“Where Butchers Sing Like Angels,” Of Captive Bodies and Colonized Minds (With a Little Help from Louise Erdrich)

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Poks M.

Review of International American Studies

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2020

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vol. 13

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issue 1

123-144

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The Master Butchers Signing Club – Louise Erdrich’s “countehistory” (Natalie Eppelsheimer) of the declared and undeclared wars of Western patriarchy–depicts a world where butchering, when done with precision and expertise, approximates art. Fidelis Waldvogel, whose name means literally Faithful Forestbird, is a sensitive German boy turned the first-rate sniper in the First World War and master butcher in his adult life in America. When Fidelis revisits his homeland after the slaughter of World War II, Delphine, his second wife, has a vision of smoke and ashes bursting out of the mouths of the master butchers singing onstage in a masterful harmony of voices. Why it is only Delphine, an outsider in the Western world, that can see the crematorium-like reality overimposed on the bucolic scenery of a small German town? Drawing on decolonial and Critical Animal Studies, this article tries to demystify some of the norms and normativities we live by.

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Queer Indiscipline, Decolonial Revolt. The Production of Undisciplined Knowledges in the Neoliberal Age

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Fritschy T.

InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer

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2021

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issue 16

127-139

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"As an intervention into a domesticated academic knowledge production and an increasingly normative queer theorizing, Queer Indiscipline, Decolonial Revolt asks for the proliferation of other modalities of thinking and writing. The context of such interrogation is the neoliberal restructuring of the university which comfortably accommodates criticality. Where criticality has lost its sting, this paper calls for a daring indiscipline opposing political, public, and scientific disciplining. This brings practices of doing knowledge and not the knowledges as such into attention. An intimacy between the queer and the undisciplined is established by referencing the resistance to assimilationist politics and practices as queer theory’s principal asset. Yet, undisciplined knowledges are not only geared towards challenging the bounds of the discipline(s), but also, and more broadly, towards decolonial futures. Queer Indiscipline, Decolonial Revolt explores various moments of concomitant unlearning and improvisation on and beyond the academic stage. The piece conducts three non-linear explorations. The first part analyzes the making of a hierarchical knowledge machine as part of capitalist modernity and revisits moments of queer and black queer theorizing that challenge the dividing lines between high/low, sensible/nonsensical, intellectual/corporeal, theory/practice, speech/chatter, etc. The second part discusses the masterful subject as the agent of knowledge. While the persistence and the pervasiveness of such master fantasy gets acknowledged, the verve of this paper is oriented towards the modality of queer dispossession. The final section gives way to the sabotage inherent in the unruly rhythm of life. Such sabotage is tested to counteract the frameworks, formats and concepts which articulate intellectuality on a more fundamental level. This advances the deconstruction of intellectuality to the terrifying and beautiful point where intellectuality is co-extensive with the social."

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Borowski M.

Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna

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2020

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issue 157-158

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The article addresses the problem of the so-called documentary turn in contemporary art, especially in those practices that are related to the project of decoloniality. It examines how traditional documentary conventions, which constitute part of the Western epistemic code, are appropriated and dismantled for the purposes of the decolonialization of the image of cultural Others. From this perspective, I analyse the main strategies used by activist artists who seek to expose the typical mechanisms of knowledge production in non-Western cultures. I complement my interpretations with a genealogy of experimental ethnographic films, tracing contemporary artistic solutions back to the so-called ethnofictions of Jean Rouch. I use this as a background for analysing two video works by the Polish artist Wojtek Doroszuk (Prince, 2014, and Sape, 2016).

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Género y Cultura de Maíz: en la lucha por definir otra soberanía alimentaria

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Vizcarra Bordi I.

Revista del CESLA. International Latin American Studies Review

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2019

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issue 24

101-130

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Through the decolonial perspective, this article aims to analyze the cross-cultural relationships of the Maize Culture and gender. Particularly, in contexts of defense of food sovereignty, indigenous and peasant women have accumulated experiences of subordination and empowerment, giving possibilities to define a sovereignty beyond food. In this sense, more than self-determination and autonomy, this paper tries to expand the concept, through the methodology of states of consciousness. This method allows the construction of a decolonial critical mass on the capitalist-patriarchal binomial that imposes power relations and directs global agro-food policies and imposes low-quality diets. Furthermore, these relationships generate numerous phenomena related to social inequalities and the loss of biosafety in rural localities. The study was carried out with the help of ethnographies of the Mazahua people of the State of Mexico (2011-2017). Four states of consciousness of Mazahua women were analyzed (pre-conscience, collective, rational and liberating). It is concluded that the liberating and decolonizing consciousness is a way to define a new sovereignty. It is the maximum state of consciousness achieved in the accumulation of experiences of indigenous peasant women in the Maize Culture. In this state, the conditions are created to build an ethic of life based on the harmony of human and non-human beings, from the perspective of compassion, care and service with love.

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Con una perspectiva decolonial, este artículo tiene el objetivo de analizar las relaciones que se entrecruzan entre la Cultura de Maíz y las mujeres indígenas y campesinas, quienes en contextos de defensa de la soberanía alimentaria, tienen experiencias acumuladas de subordinación y empoderamiento, lo que ofrece posibilidades para definir otra soberanía. En este sentido, la soberanía alimentaria es más que la autodeterminación y autonomía, por lo que este texto intenta expandir el concepto, utilizando la metodología de los estados de conciencia. Este método permite construir una masa crítica decolonial y antipatriarcal sobre el binomio capitalista-patriarcado que impone relaciones de poder y dirige las políticas y dietas agroalimentarias globales que, además de que son de dudosa calidad, son responsables de numerosos fenómenos relacionados con las desigualdades sociales y la pérdida de bioseguridad. Para ello se tomaron las etnografías realizadas del pueblo Mazahua del Estado de México (2011-2017). Cuatro estados de conciencia fueron analizados (pre-conciencia, grupal, racional y libertadora). Se concluye que la conciencia libertadora y decolonizadora es un camino para definir una nueva soberanía; es el estado de conciencia máximo logrado en el cúmulo de experiencias de las mujeres indígenas campesinas en la Cultura de Maíz. En este estado, se crean las condiciones para construir una ética de vida basada en la armonía de seres humanos y no humanos, desde la perspectiva de la compasión, el cuidado y el servicio con amor.

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“Where Butchers Sing Like Angels,” Of Captive Bodies and Colonized Minds (With a Little Help from Louise Erdrich)

Queer Indiscipline, Decolonial Revolt. The Production of Undisciplined Knowledges in the Neoliberal Age

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Género y Cultura de Maíz: en la lucha por definir otra soberanía alimentaria