Layered wanderings: epistemic justice through the art of Wangechi Mutu and Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Veeren, Elspeth S Van

doi:10.1080/14616742.2019.1619468

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“…While looking into these layers, people are in fact looking at various things simultaneously, which creates a sense of multiple levels, both visually and textually. Another famous visual artist Wangechi Mutu has the same process to create her mixed-media works [2]. This strategy helps the artist establish the identity and background story of these characters, enriching the elements of colour and patterns simultaneously while keeping the basic figurations.…”

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Crosby’s Nwantinti:

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2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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The American modern history does great help in getting Igbo culture involved. As an Igbo descent, Njideka Akunyili Crosby explores different cultural identifications which define her both as a Nigerian and a modern artist. Her work Nwantinti is one of the most representative works of her efforts to negotiate the cultural terrain between her modern and native identities. This study depicts basic elements of Nwantinti with both the internal logic and a Lacanianism approach. It is argued that Nwantinti signifies a highly intensified feeling of intimacy. The collective memory that portraits her childhood plays the role of background, while spatial imagination of sociality serves the constructional one.

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Li¹

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…The identification of epistemic injustice in IR knowledge has been accompanied by demands for change. Accounts of what this might mean range from making IR knowledge more inclusive of neglected sources of epistemic authority to replacing dominant epistemic paradigms with those that have been silenced and marginalised or with those committed to the emancipation of the silenced and marginalised (Ackerley et al, 2006;Brigg et al, 2022;Causevic et al, 2020;Hagmann and Biersteker, 2014;Loke and Owen, 2022;Van Veeren, 2019;Woons and Weier, 2017). Doing epistemic justice appears variously as a matter of restorative justice, inclusionary justice and transformative justice.…”

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Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought

Hutchings

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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This article examines the meaning and implications of doing epistemic justice in the study of International Relations through the prism of the recovery of the international thought of Fannie Fern Andrews and Amy Ashwood Garvey and in dialogue with feminist epistemology. It argues that doing epistemic justice involves going beyond restorative justice for excluded voices in which the historical record is set straight, inclusionary justice in which previously excluded voices are added to disciplinary conversations, and transformative justice, in which the perspectives of the marginalised and oppressed become sources of epistemic authority and new knowledge. Over and above all of these things, doing epistemic justice entails practising a particular kind of epistemic collective responsibility, which actively and reflexively recognises and engages with power-laden relations between knowers, worlds and audiences in the production of international thought, then and now.

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Secrecy's subjects: Special operators in the US shadow war

Veeren

2019

Eur j.of int. secur.

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This article sets out a framework for studying the power of secrecy in security discourses. To date, the interplay between secrecy and security has been explored within security studies most often through a framing of secrecy and security as a ‘balancing’ act, where secrecy and revelation are binary opposites, and excesses of either produce insecurity. Increasingly, however, the co-constitutive relationship between secrecy and security is the subject of scholarly explorations. Drawing on ‘secrecy studies’, using the US ‘shadow war’ as an empirical case study, and conducting a close reading of a set of key memoirs associated with the rising practice of ‘manhunting’ in the Global War on Terrorism (GWoT), this article makes the case that to understand the complex workings of power within a security discourse, the political work of secrecy as a multilayered composition of practices (geospatial, technical, cultural, and spectacular) needs to be analysed. In particular, these layers result in the production and centring of several secrecy subjects that help to reproduce the logic of the GWoT and the hierarchies of gender, race, and sex within and beyond special operator communities (‘insider’, ‘stealthy’, ‘quiet’, and ‘alluring’ subjects) as essential to the security discourse of the US ‘shadow war’.

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Layered wanderings: epistemic justice through the art of Wangechi Mutu and Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Cited by 8 publications

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Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought

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