Welcome back, we hope you all had some rest and have started 2021 with hope and confidence.
More than ever we believe that reading, creating, knowing, struggling, searching, resisting, healing, nurturing, caring, transforming can only work in community and in collaboration, and we'll continue to strive making Convivial Thinking a space where this can happen.
Solidarity,
Your Convivial Thinkers
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Have you wondered what raï means? Find out.
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In the newest raï, Diāna Potjomkina looks at EU trade policy and the “meta-participation” challenge. Diāna writes on participation formats in EU free trade agreements and argues that by "ignoring meta-participatory pleas, the EU recreates 20th century 'developmentalist' thinking, privileging Western dominance."
The contribution is part of a blog series seeking to explore how postdevelopment approaches can inform, infuse and potentially transform the study of EU (development) policies and relationships with the Global South. |
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We have a new zine to share!
Inspired by Donna Haraway's 'Situated Knowledges', Su-ming Khoo created a little booklet giving you a quick and illustrated overview about Haraway's main arguments on objectivity and knowledge.
Wondering what a zine is? Zines are self-published, non-commercial, low-cost little booklets that can easily be reproduced and shared. You could view it as a small scale protest to the monopoly of academic publishers and the exclusionary structures of publishing.
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In the second raï, Julia Schöneberg cautions that a post-/decolonial stance must not be co-opted as another tick-box excercise in international NGO work, but rather needs to be at the heart of any meaningful engagement. Julia argues that "truly and sincerely confronting the values underlying ‘development’ promotion is a somewhat existential question for Northern NGO work." Post-/decolonial critique is certainly not a ‘trend’, but rather unveils and confronts the "roots of global and structural inequalities, oppressions, extractions, discriminations, marginalisations and silences, and its historical causations."
Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash
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The Reading Group continues!
On 20 January we will start our discussion of Sara Ahmed's 'Living a Feminist Life'. The Reading Group meets every second Wednesday. It is open to everyone and provides a space to engage into discussion and exchange with like-minded. No prior knowledge is required.
From the book cover: “In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it.”
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The 'Stories from the Margins' are continuing and are welcoming new contributors. Check out the call! All formats are welcome: reflection pieces, essays, letters, short stories, visual art, poetry....
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