El exceso como forma de resistencia


En tiempo pre-coloniales la producción de bienes simbólicos y comerciales respondía a un principio de intercambio y reciprocidad en una trama circulatoria de energía viva. La lógica tributaria era respondida con una afirmación como miembros (Rivera Cusicanqui, 9). Esta heterogeneidad es posteriormente eliminada desde la perspectiva de la modernidad eurocentrismo reduciendo la “Otredad”, como sugiere […]

Race and the Process of Othering


The politics of race and death are, as Mbembe maintains in “Necropolitics,” inextricably linked. He cites Hannah Arednt, who traces this intertwining to “the shattering experience of otherness and suggests that the politics of race is ultimately linked to the politics of death” (17).  Many of the examples Mbembe uses to illustrate his point are conflicts […]

18. “to think clearly–that is, dangerously”


For this response I would like to consider the following quotation: “In other words, the essential thing here is to see clearly, to think clearly–that is, dangerously–and to answer clearly the innocent first question: what fundamentally is colonization?” (). We’ve read that Augusto Boal, who actualized and embodied Freire’s pedagogy in his “Theatre of the Oppressed”, […]

HOW WE READ IS POLITICAL


“Existir, humanamente, es ‘pronunciar’ el mundo, es transformarlo” (70) says Freire. There are certain texts that demand to be met halfway. They expect movement, shifting, breaking, and recognizing – your voice. In words of Boal, “se destruye la barrera entre protagonista y coros” (12). These texts are often declared obscure, not academic. They demand an […]

Pedagogies/Practices: Keywords and an Alternative Praxis


Awareness and demystification, contextualization and translation, dialogue and communication, community and organization, action and transformation, reflection… These are some of the keywords proposed by this week’s readings, which work towards establishing an alternative pedagogical practice, a praxis, that is built upon mutual understanding and support, a sense of “being with.” Aimé Césaire posits that we […]

blogging of the oppressed , by Mira mother of judah


“teatro do oprimido pdf”  on google said Ricardo, when I asked him where to find original un-translated copies of the two authors we had assigned for Monday. “do?” “yes, do” I don’t speak Portuguese yet, but in my practice of learning language to make clear what translation blurs and erases in academia, the Universe is […]

Dialogics Against Internalization of Oppression


Anyone who has been involved in facilitating the process of teaching-learning has most certainly attempted ways of distancing herself from “the banking concept of education.” The exercise of the practice reveals that something is wrong in a system of education that reproduces the structures of power and perpetuates colonialism, oppression, and above all, the internalization […]

In societies whose power structure leads to the domain of consciousness, the dominant pedagogy is the pedagogy of the ruling classes. The methods of oppression will never serve the freedom of the oppressed, thus the oppressed needs to learn and claim their own words in order to decode oppression and build another social and political reality.


Este parece ser o principal argumento nas obras de Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal, Aimé Césaire e Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Em diferentes contextos, os autores reivindicam condições para que os sujeitos oprimidos e colonizados descubram-se reflexivamente, conquistando-se como sujeitos de seu próprio destino histórico e aprendendo a ser o autor e o testemunho de sua própria […]