Holding Movements, Agitating Epistemes: Introducing a Multipart Series on Remembering, Retelling, and Dreaming for Justice
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-22-2022
Publication Title
AGITATE!
Abstract
To invoke movements in search of justice is to summon many layers of lived existence—including motions, moments, rhythms, relationships, and visions—that are, by definition, fluid and uncontainable. What might it mean, then, to document or analyze a movement? Is it possible to hold and feel the ever shifting spaces and moments in which collective resistance and dreams for justice are made and remade? Can documenting and reflecting on such histories be a part of a praxis that liberates the ‘archive’ from walls, shelves, and folders and translates it into hungry retellings and readings for unbuilding and rebuilding, again and again? These are the kinds of questions that have brought us into this space of collaborative dreaming and doing.
ISSN
2771-9774
Recommended Citation
Nagar, Richa and Arasu, Ponni, "Holding Movements, Agitating Epistemes: Introducing a Multipart Series on Remembering, Retelling, and Dreaming for Justice" (2022). Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/swg_facpubs/60