Zurcir: Border Thinking Lab

The MAP chapter of UAB was founded on February 2020, and soon began its constant collaboration with the Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología, located in Ecuador, and its director Diego Rodríguez. The first seminar we organized, Decolonialism and Philosophy from which I attach also the interactive map with its authors and members made by Laura Meneses. The whole philosophy of education behind MAP UAB - IOA was addressed in the Zoom MAP INTL. workshop on crafting a space for transnational student-centered pedagogy.

 

The reading groups conducted during 2020 and 2021 led to the establishment of the working group Zurcir whose research works on the construction of performative cultural identities. We have published a collectively authored paper, "Border wounds: A critical review of identity from interstitiality" in the journal Sarance, and presented the first case studies of this framework at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). Our lines of research will be further developed and published in the upcoming special issue of IOA's journal Sarance: "Delusions of Race and Everydayness Memory, Reconciliation, Bodies and Violence in Daily Life". See the call for papers here.

 

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