Thinking with Many Souths

Second seminar in the Peace and Planet's methodology seminar series.

What discourses of nonviolence are privileged in and by the Global North and Global South? Is it possible for scholars working in the Global North to engage with epistemologies of the South beyond appropriation and extractivism?

Whilst each seminar is discrete, as a suite of three they share a thematic focus on the methodological impact of nonviolence, decolonial/transcultural feminisms and ecological/planetary thinking on scholarly and creative praxis in the humanities.

Suggested preparatory reading

Yolande Bouka, ’Make Foreign Policies as if Black and Brown Lives Mattered’ in Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner, eds, Feminist Solutions for Ending War, London: Pluto Press, 2021, pp. 121-37. (chapters of whole book available online via Open Access/JStor)

Winona LaDuke, ‘Selected Essays, 1981-2000’, in Selina Gallo-Cruz, ed. Feminism, Violence and Nonviolence: An Anthology Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp.241-51 (285/-300/11 ebook). [or just 247-51 (290/6-299/10 ebook)] (chapters of whole book available online via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Adom Getachew, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019 [‘Introduction: Worldmaking after Empire’, pp.1-14 and ‘Epilogue: The Fall of Self-Determination’, pp.176-82] (chapters of whole book available online via JStor)

Pierluigi Musarò and Elena Giacomelli, ‘Conclusions. It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Cosmovisional Justice and Decolonial Narratives’, in Musarò and Giacomelli, eds., Climate Mobility Justice: Narratives and Visual Politics of the Panicocene, Palgrave, forthcoming.

Nikos Papastergiadis, Sneja Gunew, Paula Muraca, Fazal Rizvi, ‘The multiple origins and open futures for global multiculturalism’, in Sneja Gunew, Nikos Papastergiadis, Fazal Rizvi, and Paula Muraca, eds, The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, pp.2-12. (chapters of whole book available online via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Anne Ring Petersen, ‘The art of prefiguration: building a future collectivity at documenta fifteen’ in Sneja Gunew, Nikos Papastergiadis, Fazal Rizvi, and Paula Muraca, eds, The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, pp.98-112. (chapters of whole book available online via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Suggested further reading

Patricia Allmer, ‘Bady Minck’s tourist imaginaries’, in The Traumatic Surreal: Germanophone Women Artists and Surrealism after the Second World War, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, pp.163-195. [or just pp.163-178] (chapters of whole book available online via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Alycee J. Lane, #nonviolencenow! Living the 1963 Birmingham Campaign’s Promise of Peace, (2015), second edition, Brooklyn, NY: Lantern Publishing, 2020 [New Preface, pp.xi-xxi; Hope and Nonviolence, pp.143-53; #conclusion, pp.154-67; or just xi-xxi, 154-62]

Nina Möntmann, Decentring the Museum: Contemporary Art Institutions and Colonial Legacies, Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2023 [ch.2, pp.30-40] (chapters of whole book available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011 [ch.4, pp.128-49, or just pp.128-42] (chapters of whole book available via DeGruyter-Brill)

Tom Woerner-Powell, Andrew Fiala, ‘Introduction: Falling Between Two Schools. Interdisciplinary Reflections on Eurocentrism and the Neglect of Islamic Nonviolence’, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, 2, 2024, pp.153-68.

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