VOLUME 12(2) • 2024
Baklang Kabahayan: Saan Ba Tayo Papunta? Doon, Ngayon at sa Darating Panahon (Where Are You Heading? There, Now and in the Coming Season)
ABSTRACT. The migrations of Indigenous people across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa can be seen as a pattern that is both dispersal and arrival: the paradox of being native and in diaspora. The experiences of people who express Indigenous genders (breaking colonial binaries) while away from our ancestral homel..
Cultivating Cultural Heritage and Fostering Belonging in Communities through Digital and Non-Digital Technologies in Generative STEAM Education
ABSTRACT. The predominance of Western thought, traditionally dualistic and reductionist, has simplified and devalued the complexity and richness of the historical-cultural heritage, including the tangible and intangible heritage of lagging communities and Indigenous peoples across the globe. With th..
Dalit Lifeworlds at Risk: When Postcolonial Critique Fails
ABSTRACT. This article highlights the connections, tensions and contradictions that materialise when postcolonial and Dalit lifeworlds are brought together in intra-active analysis. While a postcolonial critique offers important insights into the historical and ongoing workings of colonial capitalis..
Decolonial Underground Pedagogy: Decolonising Education, Informal Learning and Subculture Studies for Educational Justice
ABSTRACT. This article explores examines how decolonial underground pedagogy connects teaching, learning, community building and consciousness raising in minority-led subcultures. It examines how these experiences can contribute to ongoing struggles for racial justice, gender equity, Indigenous sove..
Exile, Society and Community: Levinasian Analysis to the Limits of (Not) Belonging
ABSTRACT. This paper employs Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical phenomenology, wherein the ethical responsibility to the other is formed in relation with the other. The self and the other are bound together through the ethical questioning caused by the other, which pushes subjectivities into movement; to le..
A Few Words about Power and Land: Settler Wronging and Indigenous Belonging
ABSTRACT. My short whaiwhakaaro (‘account’) begins to think through the settler ontocide of Indigenous belonging, taking as an example the denial of the mana whenua (‘land’ or ‘place power’) of iwi Māori (‘Māori’ or ‘Indigenous peoples’). It contrasts iwi Pākehā (‘“settler” peoples’) and iwi Māori b..
Impersonal Forms of Togetherness: Finding Ways to (Not) Belong Through Reading Groups
ABSTRACT. This article is a collaborative writing experiment emerging from an ongoing reading group focused on more-than-human and decolonial philosophies of creativity. It takes up the concept of the ‘impersonal’ as a call to explore the affective dynamics of group subjectivity through practices of..
A Necromantic Hauntology of the Void in the Canary Islands: In/Re-Surrection
ABSTRACT. My wrestling with (not) belonging, which started almost a decade ago with my arrival to Aotearoa/New Zealand, was prevalent during my re-turn (Barad, 2014) to my birthplace, the Canary Islands, seeking to revive my connections to the land, its histories and its/my Indigeneity. My engagemen..
Propping Up Pride: The Intervention of Hindutva in the Indian Diaspora’s Negotiations of Belonging in Aotearoa/New Zealand
ABSTRACT. ‘Garv se kaho hum Hindu hain’! (‘Say it with pride, we are Hindu!’) has long been the chant of an ascendent and assertive Hindu nationalist chorus. This paper examines the role of pride in the context of Hindutva. I begin with an overview of Hindutva and locate the notion of pride among th..
Queer Quantum: How Communities Police Themselves
ABSTRACT. This work examines the way in which queer normativities produce hegemony within non-endocisheteronormative communities, ironically undoing the intent of queer dis/identification (Love, 2014). These dynamics are traced back to the coloniality of gender (Lugones, 2007), which forms the basis..
Wrestling with Not-Belonging: The Ongoing Process of (Re)-Establishing Small Scale Belonging through Resistance and Lived Experience
ABSTRACT. This article delves into the intricate realm of not belonging through a dialogical and narrative approach centring on lived experiences of diverse contexts. We critique two frameworks for identity and belonging and integrate these into our exploration of not-belonging while challenging cer..
What It Means to Belong in the Global South: A Coda to Two Special Issues on ‘Wrestling with (Not) Belonging’
ABSTRACT. Belonging, as this special issue demonstrates, is no simple matter. Indeed, the complexity of the topic demanded a double issue to make space for the many and varied ways in which (not) belonging can make itself felt. Notably, the (not) of (not) belonging in this collection transcends the ..