This workshop explores popular education as a mode of political praxis that can work to develop our capacity to move against the grain of the racialized and gendered logics of modernity/coloniality in our lives. In the workshop, we look for ways of collaborating with and supporting each other as we work to, in Rolando Vásquez’s words, “challenge the normativity of modernity and the erasures of coloniality" towards the cultivation of a resistant convivencia that is deeply attuned to each other and to our possibilities for living otherwise.
Cricket Keating is an Associate Professor in the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Washington. Her research is in the areas of political theory, decolonial politics, popular education and critical pedagogy, queer politics, transnational feminist theory, and technofeminism. In her work, she explores ways in which people have both imagined and struggled to build more inclusive, egalitarian, and participatory models of political collectivity. She is the author of Decolonizing Democracy: Transforming the Social Contract in India (Penn State University Press, 2011). Her articles have been published in Signs, Political Theory, International Journal of Feminist Politics, Hypatia, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and New Political Science as well as in several edited volumes.
