The Sovereignty of Quiet

Quashie, Kevin

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“…I now know that going quiet in meetings with her was not a lack of feelings, but a re-routing of feelings that one fears will not be understood by the other person. I had been reading Kevin Quashie's (2012) book, The Sovereignty of Quiet, and reflecting on the work of quiet. This thinking happens for me alongside my "emotional outbursts," my "breakdowns," and my "meltdowns."…”

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“We Cannot Write About Complicity Together”: Limits of Cross-Caste Collaborations in Western Academy

Costa¹,

Patel²

2022

ESJ

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Grounded in a friendship that began in the academy, we write together to problematize collaborative writing across our distinct caste positionalities. Writing as caste-oppressed Pakistani Muslim settler (Patel) and dominant caste Indian settler (Da Costa), we write primarily across caste power lines to focus on the failure in our own efforts at collaborative writing. This article, initially meant to focus on our complicities in white settler colonialism in its present form, reflects on the detours we undertook to arrive at this place of certainty that “we cannot write about our complicity together.” Specifically, we reconsider some assumptions underlining prominent methodological commitments of transnational collaborative writing across uneven locations in, for, and beyond the academy. Collaborative writing has been championed for its capacity to generate dialogue across disagreements, praxis grounded in social change, a challenge to the academy’s notions of individual knowledge-production and merit, and as a means of holding people across hierarchies accountable to structures of violence that remain at work within social movements and collective struggles. Considering the contours of what Sara Ahmed (2019) calls structural “usefulness” of collaborative writing to the colonial and neoliberal academy, we use historical and life-writing approaches to make caste violence legible in order to refuse the cover that collaborative writing provides to dominant caste South Asians engaged in research with Indigenous, Black, Muslim, caste-oppressed and multiply and differentially colonized communities. Our purpose is to foreground the historical and ordinary violence of caste as it shapes North American academic relationships, intimacies, and scholarship, in order to challenge the assumption that caste-privileged South Asian scholars of postcolonial and transnational studies in western academia are best poised to collaborate with Indigenous, Black, other racialized, and Dalit scholars and actors toward a decolonial, abolitionist, and anti-casteist feminist praxis. While focusing on writing across caste lines, our analysis can also be read as offering a space to engage ethically with complexities informing collaborative projects across differential horizontal and vertical power relations informed by race, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, north/south and other differences. In the process of writing this article, we have also paid particular attention to our citational practices.

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“We Cannot Write About Complicity Together”: Limits of Cross-Caste Collaborations in Western Academy

Costa¹,

Patel²

2022

ESJ

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“…It followed Hill's prior endurance piece, A Monumental Offering of Potential Energy, in which the artist lay prone inside a neon-lit sculpture of a roller coaster for the run of the Studio Museum's 2016 Artist in Residence show. Hill's living, breathing, prone body in the earlier piece was both a still act (Young 2010) and a quiet act (Quashie 2012) that simultaneously offered and withheld the potential referred to in its title. Read (somewhat against the artist's expectations) as a commentary on the police murder of Mike Brown, the Missouri teenager whose dead body lay on the street for four hours on a summer afternoon as national outrage mounted.…”

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Unburdening Liveness

Nyong’o¹

2022

TDR: Drama Rev

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“…We hope to forge more ethical relationships among curator, archives, those for whom the archives are curated, and the audiences that encounter these archives. Like Campt (2017) and Quashie (2012), through abstraction, we aim to get at the oft undervalued quiet quotidian ways people refuse capture without ourselves reproducing visual subjection. Abstraction for us then is the presentation of the open question of what sovereign life feels like rather than the definitive answer of what life is.…”

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Abstraction, witnessing, and repair; or, how multimodal research can destabilize the coloniality of the gaze

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Thomas

2021

Multimodality & Society

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The recent renewal of attention to abstraction within Black literary and visual studies, it seems to us, has to do with an interest in the various ways abstraction rejects ascribed categories, eschews narrow assumptions about “relevance,” and embraces experimentation during a moment when it is arguably most needed. Abstraction moves us simultaneously outside of representative realism, and it embraces research practices that often require the kind of intimacies that have long been the bread and butter of anthropology. As multimodal ethnographers, we have long made our ethical commitments to interlocutors through embodied participation and collective knowledge production. In this essay, we attend to questions of abstraction, witnessing, and refusal within our own filmic and photographic practices addressing state violence in the Caribbean. We are interested in the spatio-temporality of both witnessing and refusal and in the relationships between form and audience. We are interested in how forms of abstraction capture the ephemeral, performative, affective, non-linear, and unpredictable ways something that feels like sovereignty circulates and is transmitted from one to another, without contributing to a process of overexposure or a desire for transparency.

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The Sovereignty of Quiet

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“We Cannot Write About Complicity Together”: Limits of Cross-Caste Collaborations in Western Academy

“We Cannot Write About Complicity Together”: Limits of Cross-Caste Collaborations in Western Academy

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Abstraction, witnessing, and repair; or, how multimodal research can destabilize the coloniality of the gaze

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