Dutta Urmitapa, Azad Abdul Kalam, Hussain Shalim M
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA.
Miya Community Research Collective, Assam, India.
Am J Community Psychol. 2022 Mar;69(1-2):59-70. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12545. Epub 2021 Aug 7.
In this paper, we present community-anchored counterstorytelling as a form of epistemic justice. We-the Miya Community Research Collective-engage in counterstorytelling as a means of resisting and disrupting dehumanization of Miya communities in Northeast India. Miya communities have a long history of dispossession and struggle - from forced displacement by British colonial rulers in the early 19th century to the present where they face imminent threats of statelessness. Against this backdrop, we theorize "in the flesh" to interrogate knowledges and representations systematically deployed to dispossess Miya people. Simultaneously, we uplift stories and endeavors that (re)humanize Miya people, creating/claiming cultural, knowledge, and political spaces that center peoples' struggles and resistance. Across these stories, we offer counterstorytelling as a powerful mode of recentering knowledges from the margins-a decolonial alternative to neoliberal epistemes that maintain institutions/universities as centers of knowledge production.
在本文中，我们将社区主导的反叙事作为一种认知正义的形式呈现出来。我们——米亚社区研究集体——进行反叙事，以此作为抵制和打破印度东北部米亚社区被非人化的一种手段。米亚社区有着长期被剥夺权利和斗争的历史——从19世纪初被英国殖民统治者强制驱逐，到如今面临无国籍状态的紧迫威胁。在此背景下，我们从“亲身经历”出发进行理论化，审视那些被系统性地用来剥夺米亚人民权利的知识和表述。同时，我们弘扬那些使米亚人民（重新）人性化的故事和努力，创造/宣称以人民的斗争和抵抗为中心的文化、知识和政治空间。在这些故事中，我们提供反叙事，将其作为一种从边缘重新定位知识的有力模式——这是一种去殖民化的替代方案，以取代将机构/大学维持为知识生产中心的新自由主义认识论。
