VOLUME 10(3) • 2022
Critical Theory in the Glocal South: Introduction
The call for papers for this special issue of Knowledge Cultures invited critical and critical-creative responses to the question of what it is to do critical theory in the Glocal South. We sought contributions from scholars that were at all stages in their academic careers and that could draw on pa..
The Settler Baggage of Abstraction
ABSTRACT. In this article, I describe one of the basal motifs of the Pākehā world in terms of its difference from the patternings of te Ao Māori. The motif is both a patterning traced by a mode of life and an epistemological diagram of the structures of thought that are co-constituted in that patter..
Mānava ‘i he Loto Manava: Creatively Critical Tongan Sense-Making in the Glocal South
ABSTRACT. Critical theory and theorising bring social contexts into closer observation and interrogation. Yet, our social worlds and societies are continuously evolving, so how relevant and appropriate are the critical theories developed in the Glocal South, given the dynamic and fluid contextual re..
Finding the Words: Using Critical Theory to Speak Back to Our Institutions
ABSTRACT. Working as a Pacific critical university scholar in Aotearoa New Zealand necessitates the use of critical theory. Often our first encounter with critical theory involves furious nodding and highlighting as we find texts that speak to our own experiences of the world. We find ourselves revi..
Black Indigeneity and Oceanic Critical Theory
ABSTRACT. In this article, I interweave my experiences as a Papua New Guinean activist and student of critical theory in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland, New Zealand) to explore the relationship and role of critical theory in Oceania today. In this, though it is perhaps problematic, I use critical theory ..
A Manifesto of Shambolic Form: Approaching Creative-Critical Practice at the Intersection Where Artistic Research, the Global South and Critical Theory Coalesce
ABSTRACT. alys longley (Aotearoa/New Zealand) and Francisco González Castro (Chile) went to begin an article ‘discussing critical theory in a series of specific artworks, seeing critical theory as both a colonial enterprise and a tool for resistance to extractive, neoliberal power plays.’ They began..
Mapping the Aesthetic Dimensions of Power: Ethically Wayfinding across Borders
ABSTRACT. Indigenous and Southern experiences of colonial spatial, extractivist activity are contextually important for critical geographical and geospatial studies concerned with the effects of power and control systems on communities. Critical theory is used across corporeal and cognitive modaliti..
Critical Theory and Academia: Ontological Im/possibilities for Upholding Plural Worlds
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I address the paradoxes that accompany the adoption and expansion of critical theory (CT) in Latin America, paying attention to the dis/continuities between Euro-American and Latin American critical theorising as well as what remains common to both. The first of these parado..
De/Colonisation and the Un/Doing of Critical Theory
ABSTRACT. This paper explores the colonialities of trans/gender and the Canary Islands to interrogate the in/adequacy of critical theory as a tool applied to Global South issues. In both cases, critical theory is found to be lacking due to its compulsion to predetermine and essentialise relations, w..