Events at Stanford
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17:36 Nov 15, 2021
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021. Location: Zoom Join Concerning Violence: A Collaborative Research Group for our second workshop of the quarter with Dr. Anthony Dest (Lehman College - CUNY). This event will be held over Zoom. Abstract: This workshop is based on my article, “‘Disenchanted with the State’: Confronting the Limits of Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Colombia,” which appeared in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies in June 2020. The article explores why two distinct social movements – the Afro-Descendant Women’s Mobilization for the Care of Life and Ancestral Territories and the Liberation of Mother Earth Process – emerged in 2014 in response to the failure of multicultural rights to guarantee the conditions for their autonomy and self-determination. The article concludes with a meditation on the potential impasse of struggling in and against the state and capital. In this talk, I will discuss how my thinking about this supposed impasse has evolved, as well as the trajectory of each of the ...