Working With Embroideries and Counter-Maps: Engaging Memory and Imagination Within Decolonizing Frameworks

Abstract: As people around the world continue to have their voices, desires, and movements restricted, and their pasts and futures told on their behalf, we are interested in the critical project of decolonizing, which involves contesting dominant narratives and hegemonic representations. Ignacio Martín-Baró called these the “collective lies” told about people and politics. This essay reflects within and across two sites of injustice, located in Israel/Palestine and in South Africa, to excavate the circuits of structural violence, internalized colonization and possible reworking of those toward resistance that can be revealed within the stubborn particulars of place, history, and culture. The projects presented here are locally rooted, site-specific inquiries into contexts that bear the brunt of colonialism, dispossession, and occupation. Using visual research methodologies such as embroideries that produce counter-narratives and counter-maps that divulge the complexity of land-struggles, we .... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/4863

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Working With Embroideries and Counter-Maps: Engaging Memory and Imagination Within Decolonizing Frameworks ; volume:3 ; number:1 ; day:21 ; month:08 ; year:2015 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 3, Heft 1 (21.08.2015)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Segalo, Puleng ; Manoff, Einat ; Fine, Michelle

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v3i1.145
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004424670636090
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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