Spring 2020
Volume 2: Unsettling Pedagogies
Hale Konitshek, Julie Santella, Keavy McFadden, Richa Nagar, Sara Musaifer
AGITATE! 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.
Domestic Affairs
Katayoun Amjadi
Teleportation | 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?”
Step, step, breathe
Sophie Oldfield
RMF: [Pre]Conceptions of a Movement & Interview with Zaynab Asmal
Zaynab Asmal, interviewed by Koni Benson
RMF:[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.
Muddy Truth
Katayoun Amjadi
अपनी ज़मीन तलाशती नई जड़ें
Jacinta Kerketta and Richa Nagar
जसिन्ता को पढ़ने पर …
Vishal Jamkar and Richa Nagar
The essay in Hindi emerged organically over the course of several months as we jointly engaged with Jacinta Kerketta’s submission to AGITATE!. It continued to find inspiration from her ideas and poetry as it grew from our verbal discussions into Vishal’s diary, and then into a co-authored reflection and essay. To try to convey in English all of the contents of what has evolved in the preceding pages seems far too mechanical to us. Therefore, we offer here a summary of our engagement with Jacinta, chiefly for those readers who do not read Hindi.
