In 2022, we invited junior and senior scholars to share a 3-minute microlecture on the question:
“What are your lineages of insurgent and resurgent knowledges?”
Inspired by a set of microlectures organized by Rita Dhamoon and Glen Coulthard in 2010 at the Canadian Political Science Association annual conference that invited reflections on what decolonizing political theory could mean, we wanted to offer an intentionally expansive prompt that invited presenters to reflect on their intellectual, political, and community lineages, and to also invite and make space for embodied orientations to the political. This was an intentional intervention into a conventional political science space that elevates so-called objective knowledge and diminishes experiential and ancestral knowledge.
Rather than defining what we mean by the term’s “insurgent” and “resurgent” and our lineages, we asked participants to reflect on how insurgent and resurgent knowledges shape their methods, politics, and pedagogies, drawing from the communities in which they locate themselves, from their lineages of political practice, and/or their relationships to more-than-human life.
To generate further conversation, we invited Dr. Ethel Tungohan and Dr. Debra Thompson to offer reflections on the threads of insurgent and resurgenmji8t knowledge that the microlecture participants brought into the room.
Below you will find the links, with suggested readings/links, to each microlecture and the analytical comments from the discussants.