What’s the function of collective reminiscence in creating identification and belonging? Is it even potential to think about a belonging that doesn’t require flattened identities that pit one group towards one other? And most urgently, what are the narratives that may assist bridging and solidarity, and restore and rehumanization, even throughout this time of unimaginable destruction, division, and dehumanization.
Cecilie Surasky of the Othering & Belonging Institute discusses these questions with three of our sharpest chroniclers, observers, and witnesses: Palestinian historian Sherene Seikaly, acclaimed writer and activist Naomi Klein, and Pulitzer-Prize profitable novelist Viet Nguyen. This wealthy dialog will join the folks, locations, struggles, and historical past of Europe, Israel/Palestine, Vietnam, Asia, and the US. It can deliver into sharp focus how buildings of othering resembling colonialism, US militarism, ethnonationalism, racism, and patriarchy strip us of our humanity and mobilize worry and trauma to create an different. And most significantly, it is going to discover the liberatory potentialities of reconceptualizing identification and aspiring towards belonging with out othering.
Recorded April 27, 2024. Click on right here to view this discuss with ASL interpretation: https://www.youtube.com/live/U3VlOlzJJR0?feature=shared&t=2330.
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What a beautiful talk
What a gorgeous conversation
Tune in at 20:15 to hear the international intellectual Naomi Klein say this, about her own parents: "I mean, they were Americans, so they didn't know anything about other countries…" >> to the expected laughs and applause from her audience. Gross. This says all you need to know about this particular champagne socialist and pastoral Marxist air miles specialist.
Naomi Klein may be out to lunch but that Sherene Seikaly (centering Congo and Sudan and Haiti…) is truly a lunatic.
An amazing conversation, and needed more than ever at this moment….
' 'the practice of othering we do assimilatning…' 'Watching minds change… '[loss of ]material grouends for anothers belonging' so much.
Wooooow! Viet is a God
Mr. Nguyen, if you look up, "Israel-Vietnam relations" on Wikipedia, you will find out that the two countries have full diplomatic relations. Vietnam loves to buy Israel's legendary agricultural technology and it's army uses the TAR-21 Israeli made assault rifle. Have a nice day.