entangled hopes
“Matrilineal” is really a codeword for the ways in which mimesis of settler forms does not extinguish ‘Amis claims to particularity and self-determination. But what else does matirlineal mean in Continue Reading →
Tag: houses
looking like a foreigner
How might we see concrete houses as something other than ruins, as haunted by something other than settler projects? I suggest that we juxtapose the haunting image of the Continue Reading →
structures and modes of dwelling
concrete houses might have been modern constructions that reflected the political economy of the 1970s and 1980s, but they also fit within an entire set of cultural categories of different Continue Reading →
For What We Can Hope? part three: houses as mediators of hope
*note: some of this material reworks and rewrites some earlier appearing on this blog, but with a slightly different perspective We can see what Lear has called radical hope in Continue Reading →
For What Can We Hope? part two: radical hope
radical hope As I look at solafo and listen to the stories of the ‘Amis women and men who built and lived in them, I am often reminded of Jonathan Continue Reading →
