South-to-South dialogues between Brazilian and Kenyan artivists: decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives

Medrado, Andrea; Rega, Isabella; Paulla, Monique

doi:10.1080/25729861.2022.2126245

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

2022

DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2126245

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South-to-South dialogues between Brazilian and Kenyan artivists: decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives

Andrea Medrado

Isabella Rega

Monique Paulla

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“…Coined in the late 1990s among Chicanos and Zapatistas in Los Angeles and Mexico (Gonzalez, 2020), artivism has since been deployed in various struggles for social change under a shared understanding "that systems of power, no matter how pervasive, possess interstitial spaces where agency for youth of color [and of other oppressed groups] can be claimed and deployed" (Sandoval and Latorre, 2008, p. 88). While artivism is recognized for its ability to mobilize collective views, studies also highlight its potential to engender alliances supportive of concerted actions among groups that share experiences of oppression and marginalization (Medrado, Rega and Paulla, 2022).…”

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Contesting Extractivism through Amazonian Indigenous Artivism: Decolonial reflections on possibilities for crafting a pluriverse from within

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Lalander

2023

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This article provides an analysis of Amazonian Indigenous peoples’ “artivism” – understood as artistic expressions with activist orientation. It approaches artivism within the context of the emergence of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Brazil and its significance in the resistance against the centuries-long oppression of native peoples, illustrated by the advancement of extractivism in the Amazon. We focus on the artworks by four prominent Indigenous artivists: Jaider Esbell’s critical engagements with art history; Denilson Baniwa’s reanthropophagy movement; Daiara Tukano’s critique of articide; and Emerson Pontes’ transformation into Uýra, the Walking Tree. Altogether, the messages embedded in their artworks contest the dominant growth-oriented development narrative anchored on the pre-eminence of the human-nature ontological dualism, where Nature is reduced to economic resource, along with a view of development that positions western ways of knowing, being and living at the forefront of a civilizational continuum. We conclude by elucidating the central decolonizing role of Indigenous artivism and its potential to strengthen Indigenous’ voices and agendas which include exercising self-determination, resisting extractivism, and crafting more plural and just worlds.

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Contesting Extractivism through Amazonian Indigenous Artivism: Decolonial reflections on possibilities for crafting a pluriverse from within

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Lalander

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Confronting silences

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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Young artivists, social change and media literacy: Shifting the field through South-to-South connections in Kenya and Brazil

Rega,

Medrado,

Callus

2024

Global Studies of Childhood

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This article discusses the interplay between artivism and media literacy in plural Global South(s) and its fight against marginalisation. It reflects on the production of an experimental animation Portrait of Marielle by Kenyan and Brazilian young media activists and artivists. This animated film honours the legacy of Marielle Franco, a Brazilian human rights activist and politician murdered in 2018. The article explores how creative media practices can be used as tools for youth movement building in the Global South. It achieves this by analysing creative experiences that take place in ‘third spaces’ and considering how the application of creative techniques can establish South-to-South dialogical spaces for young people and mobilise memories and histories. Embracing an ethnographic approach, we trace the journeys of these artivists and their animated film, analysing the creative production processes and the exhibition of the animations’ frames in venues across both countries. This enables us to document the development of a collective ‘we’, nurtured by a dialogue between the young artivists and mediated by the creative artefacts, moving from individual to collective experiences. By following these journeys, we unpack how the spaces created by these interactions interplay with an agentive theory of change for media literacy, composed of four elements: Access, Awareness, Capability and Consequences. The focus is on the latter two: Capability, which involves young people using their media literacy for particular purposes in their lives, and Consequences, which occur when media literacy capabilities are combined with an active desire for a media environment that is conducive to equality and social justice. We suggest that working across these domains offers two important contributions to our field: a conceptual framework for digital and networked artivism that is intertwined with media literacy and a shift of the frames of reference for media literacy towards activism and social change.

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South-to-South dialogues between Brazilian and Kenyan artivists: decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives

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Contesting Extractivism through Amazonian Indigenous Artivism: Decolonial reflections on possibilities for crafting a pluriverse from within

Contesting Extractivism through Amazonian Indigenous Artivism: Decolonial reflections on possibilities for crafting a pluriverse from within

Confronting silences

Young artivists, social change and media literacy: Shifting the field through South-to-South connections in Kenya and Brazil

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