Summary
The four socially sanctioned denials are four things that, according to the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) collective, modern societies reward people for not seeing: the violence and exploitation that pay for our comforts; the limits of the planet; our entanglement with each other and the land; and the depth of the problems we face. GTDF, which began in 2016, describes its perspective as “informed and inspired by Indigenous analyses and practices”.
Its argument is that today’s crises come from a habit of being, not a shortage of knowledge. As Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti puts it, “Education that addresses denial is very different from education that addresses ignorance.”
Rationale
We interviewed GTDF’s Azul Carolina Duque, and the collective helped us see why information rarely moves a disposition. Their ‘denial of entanglement’ is our separation; their fourth warns against the “silver bullet” we distrust too.
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