VOCABULARY OF DECOLONIALITY
introduces the concept of decoloniality as an option for the contention of contemporary forms of subjugation under neo-liberal global capitalism that is based on historical colonialism and maintains continuities with it. Reading writers such as Frantz Fanon, bell hooks, Belinda Kazeem, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, Walter Mignolo and Peggy Piesche and relating their ideas to the current state of capitalism,migration, racism, class, gender etc., the editors with the name "Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Genealogies"decided that it is necessary to reformulate the existing vocabulary and to re-propose new terminology and meaning connecting art and politics.

Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Genealogies are students, alumni, PhD students and professors: Carolina Agredo, Sheri Avraham, Iris Borovcnik, Annalisa Cannito, Miltiadis Gerothanasis, Marina Grzinic, Niki Kubaczek, Marissa Lobo, Ivana Marjanovic.

The book is the project from the Class for Post-Conceptual Art Practices run by Professor Marina Grzinic at the Academy of Fine arts in Vienna. The book was initiated by the wokshop on decoloniality organized by Ivana Marjanovic within the class program. The book is to be published in 2011 with 56 contributions. The publisher is Loecker Verlag, Vienna. The book will be published in English and will have summaries from German to Spanish, Romani to Portuguese, Serbian to Igbo, etc.

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Vocabulary of Decoloniality

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