Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
Miya Community Research Collective (www.miyacommunityresearchcollective.org), Barpeta, Assam, India.
Am J Community Psychol. 2022 Jun;69(3-4):355-368. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12561. Epub 2021 Nov 7.
In this paper, we name and uplift the ways in which Miya community workers are building communities of resistance as ways to address the manifold colonial, structural (including state-sponsored), and epistemic violence in their lives. These active spaces of refusal and resistance constitute the grounds of our theorizing. Centering this theory in the flesh, we offer critical implications for decolonial liberatory praxis, specifically community-engaged praxis in solidarity with people's struggles. In doing so, we speak to questions such as: What are the range of ways in which Global South communities are coming together to tackle various forms of political, social, epistemic, and racial injustice? What are ways of doing, being, and knowing that are produced at the borders and liminal zones? What are the varied ways in which people understand and name solidarities, alliances, and relationalities in pursuit of justice? We engage with these questions from our radically rooted places in Miya people's struggles via storytelling that not only confronts the historical and ongoing oppression, but also upholds desire-Interweaving and honoring rage, grief, pain, creativity, love, and communality.
在本文中，我们将米娅社区工作者构建抵抗社区的方式命名并提升，以应对他们生活中多方面的殖民、结构性（包括国家支持的）和认识论暴力。这些拒绝和反抗的积极空间构成了我们理论化的基础。我们将这一理论的核心放在肉体上，为非殖民解放实践提供了批判性的启示，特别是与人民斗争团结一致的社区参与实践。在这样做的过程中，我们探讨了这样一些问题：南方国家的社区在哪些方面聚集在一起，以应对各种形式的政治、社会、认识论和种族不公正？在边界和边缘地带产生了哪些做、存在和认知的方式？人们在追求正义时是如何理解和命名团结、联盟和关系的？我们通过讲故事的方式，从米娅人民斗争的根源出发，参与到这些问题中，这种方式不仅直面历史和持续的压迫，还维护了欲望——交织并尊重愤怒、悲伤、痛苦、创造力、爱和社区性。
