Working with embroideries and counter-maps: Engaging memory and imagination within decolonizing frameworks
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Segalo, Puleng
Manoff, Einat
Fine, Michelle
Abstract / Description
As people around the world continue to have their voices, desires, and movements restricted, and their pasts and futures told on their behalf, we are interested in the critical project of decolonizing, which involves contesting dominant narratives and hegemonic representations. Ignacio Martín-Baró called these the “collective lies” told about people and politics. This essay reflects within and across two sites of injustice, located in Israel/Palestine and in South Africa, to excavate the circuits of structural violence, internalized colonization and possible reworking of those toward resistance that can be revealed within the stubborn particulars of place, history, and culture. The projects presented here are locally rooted, site-specific inquiries into contexts that bear the brunt of colonialism, dispossession, and occupation. Using visual research methodologies such as embroideries that produce counter-narratives and counter-maps that divulge the complexity of land-struggles, we search for fitting research practices that amplify unheard voices and excavate the social psychological soil that grows critical analysis and resistance. We discuss here the practices and dilemmas of doing decolonial research and highlight the need for research that excavates the specifics of a historical material context and produces evidence of previously silenced narratives.
Keyword(s)
embroideries counter-mapping decolonialism memory dominant lies site-specific South Africa Israel/PalestinePersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2015-08-21
Journal title
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Volume
3
Issue
1
Page numbers
342–364
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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Review status
peerReviewed
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Segalo, P., Manoff, E., & Fine, M. (2015). Working with embroideries and counter-maps: Engaging memory and imagination within decolonizing frameworks. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(1), 342–364. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i1.145
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Segalo, Puleng
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Manoff, Einat
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Fine, Michelle
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Date of first publication2015-08-21
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Abstract / DescriptionAs people around the world continue to have their voices, desires, and movements restricted, and their pasts and futures told on their behalf, we are interested in the critical project of decolonizing, which involves contesting dominant narratives and hegemonic representations. Ignacio Martín-Baró called these the “collective lies” told about people and politics. This essay reflects within and across two sites of injustice, located in Israel/Palestine and in South Africa, to excavate the circuits of structural violence, internalized colonization and possible reworking of those toward resistance that can be revealed within the stubborn particulars of place, history, and culture. The projects presented here are locally rooted, site-specific inquiries into contexts that bear the brunt of colonialism, dispossession, and occupation. Using visual research methodologies such as embroideries that produce counter-narratives and counter-maps that divulge the complexity of land-struggles, we search for fitting research practices that amplify unheard voices and excavate the social psychological soil that grows critical analysis and resistance. We discuss here the practices and dilemmas of doing decolonial research and highlight the need for research that excavates the specifics of a historical material context and produces evidence of previously silenced narratives.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationSegalo, P., Manoff, E., & Fine, M. (2015). Working with embroideries and counter-maps: Engaging memory and imagination within decolonizing frameworks. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(1), 342–364. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i1.145en_US
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ISSN2195-3325
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1359
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1719
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i1.145
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Keyword(s)embroideriesen_US
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Keyword(s)counter-mappingen_US
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Keyword(s)decolonialismen_US
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Keyword(s)memoryen_US
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Keyword(s)dominant liesen_US
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Keyword(s)site-specificen_US
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Keyword(s)South Africaen_US
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Keyword(s)Israel/Palestineen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleWorking with embroideries and counter-maps: Engaging memory and imagination within decolonizing frameworksen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue1
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Journal titleJournal of Social and Political Psychology
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Page numbers342–364
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Volume3
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