Well said, Naveen.
Best,
Clare
Sent from my iPhone
> On 29 Jan 2017, at 03:21, Naveen Bagalkot <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hello listers,
> Its time for me to say goodbye from this list.
> The space has become toxic, noxious, and the last straw has broken for me.
> But before I hit the unsubscribe button, I will briefly outline why I am
> leaving.
> A pattern has emerged and is fixed. A pattern where any young/female/PoC
> dissenting voice is disciplined by usually old/white/male voices.
> Disciplined by terming the dissenting voices as rabble rousing, badly
> behaved, (uncouth?).
> Disciplined by demanding for 'objective' and 'rational' argumentation. What
> is the problem in this you ask? Well, by now it is fairly established that
> knowledge cannot be objective, even in the sciences. It cannot be removed
> and isolated from the politics of its situated production. An individual
> experiences cannot be undermined by generalized common-sense. By not
> acknowledging and listening to the individual, situated experiences, and
> demanding objectivity, you are imposing the hegemony of sciences, as if you
> are stuck in the 60-80s.
> Disciplined by talking down to only the dissenting voices, but not to
> others, mostly because a) they are senior, b) they are your friends, or c)
> you are scared of the implications.
> Disciplined by demanding knowledge labor. Don't know what I mean by
> knowledge labor? It is a typical trait by the oppressor. When an oppressed
> person mentions an oppression, the oppressor demands knowledge (usually of
> the objective rational kind) that will term / define their actions as being
> oppressive. Another form of this phenomenon is also seen when the oppressor
> demands to be educated in knowledge presented by the oppressed, without
> taking the efforts to be educated. Case in point: When Teena raised the
> issue of gender, the male profs / researchers demanded her to establish the
> connection between gender and design research. So that the discussion can
> be edible to them. If as researchers, researching the present and emerging
> relations between objects and things and people you do not understand the
> role of gender, then please go and do your homework before demanding from a
> woman to take time off her day work to summarize to you in couple of
> paragraphs how gender is related to design and design research. You know,
> after all it is not just we males who have day work to do!
> These and other modes of disciplining are acts of colonizing.
> If you do not see that as that, then you are blinded. By your privileges
> along the race, gender, geographical power axes. When the debate around
> decolonizing design turned ugly sometime last year, I among others had
> urged the members on this list to recognize our own privileges along these
> axes, and be aware and sensitive (and empathize) by assuming that the
> others on this list (particularly the dissenting ones) do not have these
> privileges, and hence attune and attend to the difference in experience. By
> not doing so, you the founders and / or gate-keepers of this list, are
> colonizing.
> And silencing. You wonder why the younger folks on this list do not discuss
> and debate. Well, here is the answer: You colonize by your acts of
> disciplining. The 'violent' outbursts you see here, and more on the social
> media are nothing but the acts to reclaim a space for hearing. The violence
> is not against you, but against your actions, which you seem not to
> acknowledge.
> If I have to continue on this list, I cannot remain silent, and I will have
> to call-out each and every instance of colonizing, and that's just too much
> of time and effort off my day work.
>
> So, goodbye and thanks for all the fish!
>
> Naveen
>
>
> --
> Naveen L Bagalkot, Ph.D.
> Researcher & Faculty Member
> Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology.
> Bangalore
> http://srishti.ac.in/ <http://labs.srishti.ac.in>
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