Critical reflexión and plática∼testimonio/haki∼shahadat: Enacting decolonial praxis of solidarity from the Mexico-US borders to Palestine. Issue 3 (27th May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hamzeh, Manal; Flores Carmona, Judith
• Is Part Of: Curriculum inquiry. Volume 52:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 266
• Page End: 274
• Publication Date: 2022-05-27
• Subjects: Testimonio/shahadat -- haki/plática -- critical reflexión -- decolonial praxis -- solidarity; Education -- Curricula -- Periodicals; 375.0005
• DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2022.2072667
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0362-6784

Abstract

Abstract: In this plática, we share how we have deployed the methodologies of critical reflexión and plática ∼ testimonio/haki ∼ shahadat, which helped us enact a decolonial praxis of solidarity with intentional acts that grounded us in border thinking and opened the possibilities of creating an otherwise of love and harmony. We illustrate a praxis of solidarity stemming from our negotiation of differences, experiences of each other/beside each other in different moments and different sites of resistance inside and outside academia. Part of this praxis is exemplified in our co-femtoring other colleagues, faculty, and graduate students of Color and co-teaching/co-creating digital testimonios in the classroom. We also illustrate an interdependent solidarity collaborating in a US Hispanic Serving Institution on Mexico-US borders and in Cairo, Egypt and co-teaching/co-learning Palestine historically and at another moment of genocide. Inside and outside academia, we do our solidarity expansively, in purposeful, reciprocal, interdependent ways.