via Lynn Gehl: In this lecture Mawani offers an analysis of the - TopicsExpress



          

via Lynn Gehl: In this lecture Mawani offers an analysis of the life and writings of Frantz Fanon. After learning he had more in common with the Black people of Algeria rather than the French people of France; and after studying psychiatry and working in the field caring for victims of colonial violence, Fanon formulated a diagnosis of colonialism that remains relevant today. It was his view that the colonizer-colonized relationship was rooted in a form of violence that was deeper than the land, the collective, and what is corporeal: permeating deep in the psyche. Thus Fanon argued the process of revolution required a layered approach and the need to recover from two layers of colonial violence: the self and the collective. Interestingly, Mawani ends her lecture with a discussion of the Idle No More effort. In this way she implies little has changed in the violence of the colonizer-colonized relationship.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:50:00 +0000

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