OCCUPY RACE CALL tmrw, Sat 12/17, 1:30pmET/10:30amPT
Yvonne Yen Liu
Occupy Race Call 4
Sat., 12/17/11 at 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT
Call-in number: 1 (800) 617-4268, PIN: 22988982.
Live notes: http://bit.ly/occupyrace4
Yvonne Yen Liu
Oakland, CA
646.321.5710
510.371.5710
yvonnegraphy.com
Yvonne Yen Liu
Yvonne Yen Liu
Senior Research Associate
Applied Research Center
Colorlines.com
510.338.4934
yl...@arc.org
November 15-17, 2012 in Baltimore, MD
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Dalida Maria Benfield
Happy to be finally sending this out for comments: Here is my outline
for the process for the tumblr archive + analysis project:
Please let me know of questions, clarifications, augmentations, edits,
etc. Thanks and looking forward to your feedback & getting it rolling!
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5 weeks/5 questions on Race/Gender/Class and Occupy movement culture
A Project of the Occupyresearch:race/class/gender collective, to be
published on the tumblr archive + discussion
http://occupyrace.tumblr.com/
Feb. 20 – March 26
If our project is using the opportunity of the Occupy movements to
promote intersectional – race/gender/class – justice, then the
following questions become a priority regarding cultural production:
1) Defining, analyzing, finding, promoting, and supporting those forms
of cultural production that create a space in which an intersectional
analysis and vision is taking or place or could take place.
2) Imagining and creating spaces of cultural production, with an
understanding and appreciation for those spaces that have already been
created in the past and present.
3) Sustaining a critical discussion about the cultural production of
the Occupy movements with an intersectional perspective.
Our immediate plan of action then, is to seek out, analyze, and
produce, images, videos, as well as posters and political graphics
that address the following areas and questions.
We will announce a call for posts, including the document and an
analysis, for each theme every two weeks, beginning Feb. 20, 2012, and
continuing for five weeks. At the end of the five weeks, we will write
a summary and that will be posted to the tumblr archive as well as
distributed widely through the Occupyresearch community.
As the first project of the race/gender/class collective on cultural
texts, it is expected that this will spawn further research and
participatory action/production projects.
The five thematic areas are:
1. Historical echoes of past race/gender/class movements in the United
States in the contemporary Occupy movement culture.
Is there evidence from the images, videos, or audiotracks from the
Occupy movements of connections to previous historical
race/gender/class movements? Draw out the connections: Describe the
different threads that you are connecting. What are the connecting
themes? How is the political situation the same or different? How are
the aesthetic languages the same or different? What does this
comparison and connection tell you, and us, about the possibilities
for movement, then and now?
2. Race/gender/class politics in Occupy movement cultures.
What can we learn about the possibilities for race/gender/class
coalitions in the Occupy movement? Find images, videos, or audiotracks
that you and/or your group feel are emblematic of how
race/gender/class politics are being played out in the Occupy
movements – in productive, contentious, problematic, or inspiring
ways. What new formations and identities are being forged in the
movement cultures?
3. Collectivity
How are the Occupy movements forging new forms of collectivity? Find
images, videos, or audiotracks that speak to you and/or your group
about emerging forms of collectivity that incite new forms of
identity, social relationships, and coalition. What kinds of social
relationships do they push against? What do they propose instead?
4. Global connections
How are the Occupy movements connecting to other global movements?
What evidence can we find of this? What insight do these connections
offer, politically and aesthetically? What do they mean for how
race/class/gender identities in politics are being defined on local
and global scales?
5. Interculturality
How is the Occupy movement exhibiting forms of inter-culturality (my
definition is below)? How can we find that being practiced and lived
in forms of culture? What can we learn from this that can be applied
toward economic and political formations?
Definition of interculturality from Catherine Walsh:
In Ecuador, interculturality has a different legacy and meaning as
compared to other countries. It is a principle that originates from
the indigenous movement, thought through as a political and social
project that requires not only the relational but also the structural
(political, economical and social) transformation of the Ecuadorian
state and society. By implication, it is considered as part and parcel
of the processes of decolonization. While the multicultural and
pluricultural are typically descriptive terms that point to diversity
and the recognition (and inclusion) within the existing society,
interculturality as such does not yet exist. It is something to be
constructed. It allows imagining and opening of pathways towards a
different society based on respect, mutual legitimacy, equity,
symmetry and equality where difference is the constitutive element and
not merely a simple addition.
(+ here's more info on Catherine: http://catherine-walsh.blogspot.com/)
Thanks, best wishes,
Dalida
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Dalida María Benfield
digital media artist + scholar + activist
- Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
- Ph.D. Candidate, University of California-Berkeley,
Comparative Ethnic Studies and Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender &
Sexuality Studies
- Board Member, Global Commons Foundation
- Board Member, Transnational Decolonial Institute
mobile: 510-219-5413
twitter: @dalidamaria
website: dalidamb.net