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Anti-Oppressive Education and Reconciliation in South Asian Canadian Art Practices
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SSHRC IG awarded 2019: This project examines informal educational practices based in anti-oppression work done by South Asian Canadians (SAC) with the eventual goal of considering the potential of these relatively neglected sites of reconciliation as models for action in formal institutional contexts. It focuses on arts practices by SAC because art practices have been demonstrated to be potent sites for researching the complex ways in which anti-oppressive education occurs and transforms visions. Consequently, this project selects three case studies of PoC initiatives for analysis, that engage not only with racialized histories, but also IP histories in a colonial state: (1) the Minquon Panchayat, a collective of IP and PoC artists in the 1990s that challenged racism within Canadian non-profit arts world; (2) Rungh, an arts magazine about SAC artists, curators, and archivists who explore the meaning of SAC culture on these lands; and (3) South Asian Visual Arts Centre, an artist-run centre with a commitment to self-representing cultural diversity within the Canadian arts world. Employing historical methodologies such as archival research and qualitative methods such as interviews to study these art practices, this project asks: What can anti-oppressive education in SAC art practices teach us about how PoC have attempted to reconcile their relations with Indigenous peoples? Are there new lessons within such practices for how Canadians understand 'discrimination', 'diversity', and reconciliation?
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- 2018-10-01
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- Research Material
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- ©️Da Costa, Dia. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2025.