Colonization and Resistance

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Nadia Yala Kisukidi, a philosopher specializing in contemporary French and African thought, invites us to rethink the present-day world from the perspective of the wounds of colonization and the multiple forms of resistance that have emerged from it.

The history of colonization is not a closed chapter. It continues to structure today’s inequalities, forced displacements, racial hierarchies and the ways in which we decide who has the right to exist and who can be silenced, expelled or forgotten. Even today, some human beings are treated as surplus, as labor or as “things,” as Nadia Yala Kisukidi explains when she speaks of the processes of objectification of Black people and contemporary forms of border violence. Yet within this same history lies another constellation of resistances, imaginaries and struggles that can inspire us to imagine a different present. What can we learn from the voices and movements that have challenged dehumanization?

This is where Kisukidi’s voice is essential. An expert in contemporary French and African thought, she researches and defends African philosophies, a body of intellectual practices—produced on the continent and in the diasporas—that share a concern for the denial of the human, racism, colonization and slavery and that examine forms of resistance and self-affirmation. For Kisukidi, what matters most is that this is living thought, driven by a desire for transformation: a way of being engaged in the world, activating communities and imagining alternatives. In this talk, she explores the need to recover genealogies of thought from outside Europe and the political power of imagination to help create spaces of resistance and envision other ways of living together.

Event will be held in French with simultaneous translation from French to Catalan.

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