posted on 2022-11-14, 16:23authored byNick Beech, Derin Fadina, Ana Betancour, Tania Sengupta, Emily Mann, Robin Schuldenfrei, Kavitha RavikumarKavitha Ravikumar, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Unsettled Subjects
We begin by acknowledging all those who live in present danger to their lives, their livelihoods and their loved ones: surviving and resisting the exploitation, subordination and marginalisation exacted by that system of racialised practices, structures and knowledges that we know of as colonialism. We acknowledge them in solidarity and recognise their struggle, offering as they do not just resistance but histories and practices of life. We will continue to seek counter-hegemonic socialist, feminist and decolonial knowledges, practices and affects in our work with one another as grounded beings in and of this only Earth.
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Publication date
2022-03-01
Copyright date
2022
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Unsettled Subjects is an interdisciplinary collective of architects and historians, whose members hail from diverse institutions across the UK, Europe and Africa. They seek to understand the political present by engaging critically and collectively with texts and ideas – through reading, research and creative practice – in order to interrogate issues of identity, race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexuality, class and power. The group was founded by Nick Beech in summer 2020, who convenes its active reading group, Unsettled Subjects / Confronting Questions.
Unsettled Subjects: Hafsa Adan; Ana Betancour; Nick Beech; Derin Fadina; Emily Mann; Catalina Mejía Moreno; Kavitha Ravikumar; Shahed Saleem; Robin Schuldenfrei; Tania Sengupta.