FDGSP IV: Indigeneity, Abolition, Decolonization, Resurgence, Democratic Autonomy

IV.

INDIGENEITY, ABOLITION, DECOLONIZATION, RESURGENCE, DEMOCRATIC AUTONOMY: 1994-2020: A basic contemporary consensus seems to exist between indigenous, black liberation, and anarchist perspectives, both theoretically and in terms of practice. Though they have different emphases, language, and traditions, these analyses generally agree about what is going on and what needs to be done. Maps of present power relations and freedom movements, and the question what would constitute such a movement in our own localities, including the university.

1. MARCOS BADIOU ESTEVA

(Wilson+) Marcos, Badiou, Esteva audio lecture:

Recommended Readings: Subcommandante Marcos, Interview, May 1994. 2^nd: Badiou, “Ethic of Truths,” from Ethics, pp. 40-57; Esteva, “Indigenous Autonomy in Oaxaca, Mexico,” from Auroras of the Zapatistas, pp. 17-21.

Selected Marcos text/quotations

Selected Badiou text/quotations

Selected Esteva text/quotations

2. GOLDBERG EVANS WANG MIES THOMSEN: PIC AND DEFENDING COMMONS

Mies Thomsen Goldberg Evans Wang audio lecture:

Recommended Reading: Goldberg and Evans, “The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy,” pp. 3-25; Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen and Maria Mies, The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy. Zed Books, 1999. Pp. 141-164.

Selected Goldberg and Evans text/quotations

Selected Mies and Thomsen text/quotations

3. TAIAIAKE ALFRED: RESURGENCE

Taiaiake Alfred audio lecture:

Recommended Reading: Taiaiake Alfred, Wasáse, pp. 19-38, 61-97. 2^nd: Chris Vance, “Canada and Zapatismo,” from Auroras of the Zapatistas, pp. 65-75.

Selected Alfred text/quotations

Selected Vance text/quotations