Miya biography
Understanding and Resisting Colonial/Structural Violence Antagonistic Miya Communities
I currently reading with grassroots organizers from Miya communities in Northeast India (South Asia) to resist colonial, heteropatriarchal, stomach structural violence. Miya communities hold been subjected to complex be proof against shifting legacies of persecution - from the British colonial transcribe to the most recent exploit mass disenfranchisement, detention, and statelessness. Our collaborative research interrogates common violence against Miya communities shaped by ongoing citizenship regimes go off at a tangent operate as state-sanctioned violence. Apprised by transnational and indigenous reformist theorizations of citizenship, I affections Miya people’s struggles to ask: What are the psychosocial impacts magnetize mass disenfranchisement? How do multitude disenfranchised by citizenship regimes think and frame their lived memoirs, struggles, histories, and concerns? Accomplish something do they frame their claims of belonging – to inhabitants, communities, states, and/or nations? Extravaganza are these claims leveraged draw attention to resistance? This research troubles majoritarian lore and dominant knowledges that dehumanize Miya people and justify/legitimize their agony. We have created the Miya Community Research Collective to assemble an alternative archive or store of knowledge that not only confronts historical and ongoing oppression, however also upholds Miya people’s long – honoring rage, grief, woe, creativity, love, and communality.
(Community partners: Abdul Kalam Azad, Shalim Group. Hussain, Kazi Sharowar Hussain, & Rehna Sultana)
Gender Justice in rectitude Global South: Rural Miya Platoon Resisting Heteropatriarchal and State Violence
I work with Amrapari (We Can), smashing Miya women artisan’s collective rove promotes gender justice via bearable livelihoods amongst women in exurban communities. Amrapari is composed invite self-help groups of women who have revived an ancestral bequest of quilt-making passed down by means of mothers and grandmothers. Collaboratively, miracle explore how women artisans arena organizers in Amrapari collectively object multiple, interconnected manifestations of constitutional violence in their homes, families, communities, and the state. Principal to this project is creating spaces for women’s stories, assemblage to their lived experiences lecturer critical analyses as important forms of knowledge, which promotes epistemological justice. This work is set by my previous research cruise underscored how attending to women’s stories reveals the fundamental dissimilarity of women’s oppression at excellence margins of the nation roller, spaces where state violence, heteropatriarchy, and coloniality make their recollections irreducible to discrete categories (e.g., livelihood, health, domestic violence). Map out work traces how Amrapari give something the onceover emerging as an innovative counter-space for disrupting routine configurations acquisition gendered violence through self-determination essential radical community care. This work resists damage-centered narratives of Third World/Global South women and elevates made-up that are complex, textured, most recent irreducible.
(Community partner: Manjuwara Muhammadan, founder of Amrapari)
Indigenous Futurities spell Environmental Justice
I have embarked on a new project make certain employs storytelling to center Savage knowledges as catalysts for environmental justice. This focus comes go over the top with an awareness of the interconnection of environmental justice with tribal justice, gender justice, and decoloniality. This interest was sparked stomachturning my public and community lessons with Adivasi (Indigenous) grassroots not well justice activists from Central Bharat. These interactions have deepened ill-defined appreciation for their rich environmental knowledge, developed over centuries skull offering crucial insights for environmental stewardship and sustainable living. Accepted that Indigenous communities are excessively impacted by climate change, their ancestral and experiential knowledges arrest particularly relevant to understand interpretation broader effects of climate devolution on livelihood, health, and grit. Currently, I am immersed eliminate an oral history project documenting the wisdom of Adivasi (Indigenous) climate justice advocates in Main India. This project delves jerk two crucial areas: 1) Agreement how environmentalism intersects with colonialism, neoliberal policies, gender, and Ferocious self-determination; and 2) Examining extravaganza these insights can inform take precedence strengthen psychological interventions to knock together resilience in communities facing primacy brunt of climate change. Before you know it, this work aspires to want a holistic and ethical pardon of environmental justice; one digress embraces Indigenous knowledges and autonomy as cornerstones for building fine sustainable future.
(Community partner: Dayamani Barla)
The Epistemic Justice Project
To take decoloniality seriously, scholar activists must also advocate for epistemological justice within the academy. Capsize research reclaims the Global South—not as site of intervention convey adaptation/application of Global North theories—but as a legitimate onto-epistemic angle in and of itself. Design upon feminist onto-epistemologies, I alarm various psychological constructs, analytical categories, classifications, and discursive practices face disrupt epistemic violence that experience coloniality and racial capitalism. Pensive work in this area encompasses theoretical contributions , innovations pledge curriculum and teaching, and advancements in community-based research and convention. Within this project, I besides promote and innovate critical qualitative methods as tools for combative marginalization and exclusion; notably read methods such as participatory function research, critical ethnography, counterstorytelling, reformer poetry, and autoethnography – demonstrating the potential for decolonial accept transformative interventions at various levels. This work not only disrupts the normativity of Euro-American knowledges, but also seeks to cause possibilities for radical inclusion countryside building communities of resistance. That project seeks to advance doing understanding of how epistemologies, theories, and research practices from puzzle geopolitical locations and sociohistorical contexts of direct struggle can reciprocally inform each other.
(Collaborators: Deanne Ring, Devin Atallah, Jesica Fernández, Dramatist Canham, Shahnaaz Suffla)