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agitatejournalIntroducing AGITATE! Volume 3: Stories, Bodies, Movements
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agitatejournalVolume 2: Unsettling Pedagogies
Hale Konitshek, Julie Santella, Keavy McFadden, Richa Nagar, Sara MusaiferAGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges presents our second volume, “Unsettling Pedagogies.” Forever cognizant of our limitations as a journal that relies on a ‘domain’ based in a R-1 University in the United States, we highlight unsettling lessons in creative co-learning. We rearticulate AGITATE!’s commitment to building learning spaces where radical pedagogies for sociopolitical and epistemic justice are at the front and center of our praxis.
There’s Something in the Water
Tia-Simone GardnerIn her book A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, Kathryn Yussof (2018) describes a thick relationship between extractive capitalism, geologic time, and (anti)Blackness. She writes, “As the Anthropocene proclaims the language of species life – Anthropos – through a universalist geologic commons, it neatly erases histories of racism that were incubated through the regulatory structure of geologic relations.
Introducing AGITATE! Volume 5
Abdul Aijaz and Richa NagarIntroducing AGITATE! Volume 4 Breath and Death: COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and Virality
The AGITATE! Editorial CollectiveEditorial Introduction – Vol. 1
Beaudelaine Pierre, Hale Konitshek, Julie Santella, Keavy McFadden, Khoi Nguyen, Richa Nagar, Sara MusaiferWe come together to write this inaugural editorial of AGITATE! after journeying as a collective for almost two years. Along this path, members of our group — including our contributing writers, artists, and activists — have joined in and advanced this vision and work at different times. Sometimes this coming together was planned and at other times it was sheer coincidence.
Rita Ponce de León – Artwork 1
Rita Ponce de LeónIn the Absence of a Corpse
Soibam HaripriyaDomestic Affairs
Katayoun AmjadiDreams as R-evolution
Coral BijouxDreams as R-evolution—a visual art and single-use plastic installation of sculpture, drawings, and found objects—is an installation originally created in the University of KwaZulu Natal’s Westville campus plant nursery that now speaks to dreaming as a r-evolutionary act in an old colonial gallery, the IZIKO National Gallery in Cape Town.
Khalamuni
Efadul HuqParking Ramp Project
Aniccha ArtsAniccha Arts premieres a performance installation inside a seven-level parking garage. The project asks questions about transience, migration, and stability in a space that temporarily stores cars and is home to nothing. Performers pervade the parking structure with their bodies, working against the visible slant of the ramp to find their individual verticality. Questions we asked in creating the work: How do we find softness in a landscape of concrete? What anchors us on these alternating planes? How do we connect across such a complex landscape?
Solidarity with Palestine from Kashmir: Kashmiri, Hindi, and Urdu translations of Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I Must Die’
Ather Zia and Idrisa Pandit, with Richa Nagar and Abdul AijazTeleportation | عَبْرَة
Ola Saad Znad“Yes, Baghdad and I haven’t seen each other since the war, but am I brave enough to change its perfect image in my memory? The walls of Baghdad extend their reach to me, protecting the only solid memory I have of the place I love, where my roots run deep. These walls keep me wondering: what would my life be if I had never left my home?”
इंसानियत का लॉकडाउन
Richa Nagar and Richa SinghApertures
Ritika Ganguly and Alia JerajApertures: A creative portrayal of domestic violence for SEWA-AIFW is a bricolage of stories and art forms. It draws on a variety of artistic disciplines to represent a spectrum of lived experiences of domestic violence in our societies, and the specter of patriarchy that shapes them. It tells four survivor stories from Minnesota through the lens of survivor stories in New Delhi and Chennai.
Fast and Out of Place
Colin W. WingateBaggage
Setareh GhoreishiThe Passage
Marijana Hameršak and Selma BanichStep, step, breathe
Sophie OldfieldBuried Waters
Efadul HuqRemembering, Honoring and Grieving Migrant Deaths: Unsettling the Politics of Grave Silence
Emina BužinkićEmina Bužinkić I write these lines to remember, record and grieve fallen migrants who fiercely fought against the relentless border regimes in the Balkans and wider European geographies. Pushed into despair and ultimately robbed of breath, thousands of migrants attempt to cross the perilous terrains of the Balkans only to meet police batons, electric shocks,…
Act One: The Multan Railway Station
Abdul AijazRMF: [Pre]Conceptions of a Movement & Interview with Zaynab Asmal
Zaynab Asmal, interviewed by Koni BensonRMF:[Pre]Conceptions of a Movement, is a comic book written and drawn by Zaynab Asmal. It was the product of a final assignment for a third year history course “African History Through Comic Books: History for What and For Whom?” designed and taught by Koni Benson, a postdoctoral fellow at the time, at the University of Cape Town in 2016.