"Lotus" and Its Afterlives: Memory, Pedagogy and Anticolonial Solidarity

Autor/inn/en	Desai, Chandni; Ziadah, Rafeef
Titel	"Lotus" and Its Afterlives: Memory, Pedagogy and Anticolonial Solidarity
Quelle	In: Curriculum Inquiry, 52 (2022) 3, S.289-301 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0362-6784
DOI	10.1080/03626784.2022.2072670
Schlagwörter	Memory; Teaching Methods; Colonialism; Periodicals; Social Change; Activism; Artists; Authors; Exhibits; Creativity; Intergroup Relations; Power Structure; Political Influences; Archives; History; Foreign Countries; Asia; Africa; Palestine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kolonialismus; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Sozialer Wandel; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Artiste; Artist; Künstler; Künstlerin; Author; Autor; Autorin; Kreativität; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Archivwesen; Archiv; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Ausland; Asien; Afrika; Palästina
Abstract	In this article we examine the "Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings" journal as an insurgent space that reflected Afro-Asian solidarity. We argue that Lotus constituted "infrastructures of dissent" and "infrastructures of solidarity" which were constructed between different anti-colonial movements. Though "Lotus" was widely circulated through different geographies, debated and discussed, there remains very little scholarly attention around its origins, impact, and the forms of solidarity it aspired to engender. There have been a number of studies on the "Bandung Spirit" and the "Tricontinental" conferences, yet there is generally less attention to the networks of artists, authors, exhibits, and magazines that discussed and debated forging insurgent solidarities under difficult circumstances. The article thus explores how cultural production was used by Afro-Asian artists to enact "creative solidarity" and the ways "Lotus" provided a means for cultural producers to share knowledge, theorize, and build relations across anti-colonial struggles, albeit in a space not outside the political dynamics and contradictions of the moment. We also conceptualize "Lotus" as an anti-colonial archive and suggest that such archives can be used pedagogically in efforts to decolonize curriculum, through a histories from below approach, to remember those occluded from history. (As Provided).
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