Colonisation is as Much a Psychological Project as it is a Political One
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Colonisation is as Much a Psychological Project as it is a Political One
Saved by maia strzygowski
This is a process of decolonization. Whether you are the descendants of colonizers or the colonized—or, like me, both—all of our peoples have experienced the loss of something essential to our liberated well-being. Whether that was taken from you or given away in the bargain to win power, it is loss.
Epistemicide is at the heart of colonization, but we cannot decolonize our minds by unknowing modernity. Like it or not, your belonging is dependent on a reclamation of the dismissed ancient and a reconciliation with the dominant modern.
Welcome to one of my major thesis arguments that I discovered over ten years ago when doing a lot of dance, acting and somatic training. The thing hardly anyone was or is talking about. This invisibilisation of our primary way to engage with reality (aka our senses) IS a fundamental function of colonization. The site of colonization is not just the... See more