VOLUME 12(1) • 2024
What It Means to Belong in the Global South:An Introduction to a Special Issue on ‘Wrestling With (Not) Belonging’
ABSTRACT. This special issue is a milestone in the lead editor Elba’s ongoing search for answers that often did not even have questions about her (not) belonging in her place of birth, the Canary Islands. (Not) belonging undermines the reference points that ground answers to questions about what it ..
A Necromantic Hauntology of the Void: Pasados que (Nunca) Fueron y Futuros que (Nunca) Pueden Ser in the Canary Islands
ABSTRACT. This article is the continuation of a personal journey, wrestling with (not) belonging, which started almost a decade ago with my arrival in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It was not until I was invited to share my ‘whakapapa’ (genealogy), merely reduced to ‘Spanish’ at that point, that I started t..
Africa’s Triple Heritage and Being and Becoming African in Ghana: A Futile Pursuit or a Promising Prospect?
ABSTRACT. Africa’s triple heritage (African, Western and Arabian) situates Africa and African people in a uniquely intricate position where African socio-cultural, political and economic realities constantly struggle for agency, having been undermined by false Euro-Christian and Arab-Islamic propaga..
Aloned to Assay It: The Esoteric(ist) and the Academy
ABSTRACT. In this article, I explore (not) belonging from the standpoint of an esotericist working within the academy. By esotericist, I mean someone who works with notions of spirituality in Foucault’s sense of the ‘search, practice and experience through which the subject carries out the necessary..
Kapwa as Queer Inclusion
ABSTRACT. Kapwa is a core Filipino value and refers to a sense of shared identity, being-with-others, an inner self shared with others. It is a value that Filipinos are proud to embody as it signifies unity and supports collectivist ways of being. In this article, I problematise kapwa in relation to..
‘Kind of Business, You Know?’ The Commercialisation of Inclusion through Non-formal Arts Learning
ABSTRACT. As national and global policies emphasise the significance of social inclusion, a sense of belonging has increasingly become economically rationalised. Social exclusion is posed as an economic risk, and so neoliberal systems have commercialised and commodified social inclusion, promoting a..
Neki Arā, Arā Neki: Art, Belonging and Not Belonging, Māori and Pākehā in Aotearoa/New Zealand
ABSTRACT. In Aotearoa, many of us often situate ourselves on one side of a binary of colonial dynamics, despite how we have whakapapa (genealogies) that interweave these locations of belonging. This article will reflect on what it can mean to be Māori and Pākehā (NZ European of mainly British descen..
Period Talks
ABSTRACT. ‘Sometimes, you know I’m on the way because you experience cramps, bloating and mood changes. Other times, I surprise you by making a wilful mark on your pyjamas or sheets. Without a need to support an embryo, estrogen and progesterone shed the uterus lining, enabling my arrival. You colle..
Remnants of Belonging: Crimean Krymchak Cultural Preservation in the Face of Discursive Cleansing
ABSTRACT. In this essay, we analyse unsettlements, deterritorialisations, displacements, forced migrations and seizures of ancestral lands as intrinsic to (non)belonging. We focus, specifically, on Indigenous Krymchak people of the Crimean Peninsula and efforts to preserve elements of Krymchak knowl..
Reweaving our Pepeha: Towards a Mestizaje of Remembering
ABSTRACT. As Latin American academics living in Aotearoa, we have been asked whether we are Indigenous or not. We would answer this question negatively – as common sense – in our home countries. However, in our diasporic location, and interpellated by the Māori concept of whakapapa (genealogy, ances..
The Art of Not Belonging: Decolonising Intercultural Visual Arts Education in Chile
ABSTRACT. This article presents the preliminary findings of research that explores how a sample of secondary school visual arts teachers conceptualise and embody interculturality across distinct public schools and Chilean regions. An increasingly culturally diverse Chile, postcolonial inequalities a..
The Challenges of Writing: The ‘Long and Winding Road’ of Belonging to Academia
ABSTRACT. This paper highlights how international multilingual students’ experience with academic writing influences their sense of (not) belonging. Beliefs about ourselves as individuals are shaped by our experiences of belonging to being positioned in various groups. Drawing on the notion of writi..