4 page single spaced critical analysis paper about any topic of your choice related to the course material (I will provide the sources)
and its focus on decolonization as theory and practice ie praxis. The key question for this assignment to be addressed is: In decolonizing/decolonial contexts What does it mean to speak? What does it mean not to speak? What does that look like? What are the effects in this not
speaking? What are the consequences? How do we come to speak in decolonizing/anti-colonial
ways and in what forms? What does this look like in concrete terms?
Students may relate their analysis to real life concrete issues ie organizing strategies of resistance,
movements etc and material conditions of oppression, ie poverty, dispossession, police brutality,
ongoing colonial relations of power, violence against women, racialized denial of place, space, the
marking of bodies etc as problem etc, etc, the politics of resistance, violence, of memory, healing,
spirituality, spirit injury, amputation, anger, rage etc. The politics of speaking however, must be
named and centered as the central space in/on which your analysis is grounded. Here you will draw on Gayatri Spivaks well-known work Can the Subaltern Speak?
providing a brief explanation of what Spivak means by this. This could be the entry point of your paper.
The term paper must demonstrate a full engagement with the course material. The situation of the
I/Self is paramount. Using course readings, lectures, film, etc as sources of reference is critical.
This discussion analysis must not be a copy of the discussion taken up in previous assignments.
Students are welcomed to use other related readings however this material must not outweigh the
course material. 85% of the material you use should consist of NEW444 course material A
minimum of 10 pieces of NEW444 course material should be utilized.
Arts based approaches to
all assignments are welcomed.
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