tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post6544634346923487944..comments2023-12-29T18:13:21.495-06:00Comments on pink scare: On Fragmentation and Alternative HistoriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-11314580081126224652010-08-05T14:53:33.576-05:002010-08-05T14:53:33.576-05:00Another key example of this fragmentation that com...Another key example of this fragmentation that comes to mind is Bolivia, and the way that neoliberal policy "experts" speak about how to "control" the large indigenous population there who has, after centuries of struggle, finally taken control of the national state apparatus. The indigenous radicals, aware that their oppression has been enforced at gunpoint many times over throughout the history of European involvement on the continent, are arming themselves, only to be decried by the likes of the Economist and the NYTimes as deranged extremists.thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05268192967377248928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-40441090325967670572010-08-05T14:45:03.162-05:002010-08-05T14:45:03.162-05:00"The pedagogical implication of this access t..."The pedagogical implication of this access to alternative knowledges is that they can form the basis of alternative ways of doing things. Transforming our colonized views of our own history (as written by the West), however, requires us to revisit, site by site, our history under Western eyes. This in turn requires a theory or approach which helps us to engage with, understand then act upon history. [...]"<br /><br />I found this to be really powerful. The way in which history is construed has powerful political consequences, and may either limit or encourage emancipatory struggle (as the quote makes clear). And the explicit call for not only revolutionary action, but revolutionary theory (that mobilizes the experiences of the oppressed that have been crushed under the boot of imperialism) sounds right on to me.thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05268192967377248928noreply@blogger.com