(AIS3) Reframing Togetherness: Confronting Ruptures, Disjunctions and Betrayals in Times of Genocide
The 2025 Congress theme is “Reframing Togetherness.” Togetherness presumes mutuality. But how is mutuality—a condition of togetherness—possible in times of genocide? The enduring legacies of coloniality and the racial structures that uphold them persistently render some of us as fully human, while others are deemed “nonhuman or not-quite-human” (Weheliye 2014). The death and devastation witnessed in Palestine, Sudan, the Congo, and “elsewhere(s)” continues to reduce Brown and Black bodies to material for the machinery of the empire. This session invites us to reflect on “the Palestine exception” and the interlocking planetary horizons of coloniality. We will collectively explore the ruptures, disjunctions, and betrayals that emerge in our orientations, relationalities, and frames of mutuality during times when the thin Apollonian face of empire falters, exposing the brute violence that sustains the current order.
We would like to thank our co-sponsors, the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE).
This session is made possible with the financial support of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
