always.in.bits.

Ladhani, Sheliza

always.in.bits.

dc.contributor.advisor	Sitter, Kathleen
dc.contributor.advisor	McDermott, Mairi
dc.contributor.author	Ladhani, Sheliza
dc.contributor.committeemember	Este, David
dc.contributor.committeemember	Gabor, Peter
dc.contributor.committeemember	Adams, Jennifer
dc.contributor.committeemember	Banahene Adjei, Paul
dc.date	2023-11
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-19T22:37:11Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-19T22:37:11Z
dc.date.issued	2023-06-13
dc.description.abstract	The mo(ve)ments gathered, held, and offered to you here, are connected to institutional life yet breach its hold. This multi-voiced autoethnographic representation of (re)memberings and (re)imaginings, draws upon critical race theory, anti-racism, and settler colonialism as analytics to attune to the reproduction of parallel projects of domination and how particular violences are thrust on / against our bodies, Black, Indigenous, and racialized bodies. Here, we consider how our (re)memberings of racism and colonial violence within higher education feed our (re)imaginings and desires for more than what is. In working in relation to / with memory as an intimate and rebellious methodology, we draw upon our distinct historical and ancestral inheritances and asymmetrically interconnected knowledges of living amidst porous worlds of haunting and abundance, held by and preserved within the corporeal vessel, as a form of collective labour for livability, for shared futures that might yet be. These orientations and analytics open up decolonial possibilities for this work, spaces to travel in / through to make sense of the distinct yet linked experiences across our differences. This vessel carefully holds layered curations of bodily affect(ion)s through various fragmented forms of representation. In bringing together these fragments in fragile connectivity, this work traces and follows how bodies, voices, and affects find one another here, in an institutional space that continually deploys its racial and colonial machinations for our containment, erasure and extraction. Through membranous seeping, border crossing, and portal jumping to reclaim our bodies (of knowledge), our (re)memberings and (re)imaginings illuminate desires and yearnings for belonging in this world together, alongside world-making practices made possible by inheritance, kinship, and the alchemy of imagination.
dc.identifier.citation	Ladhani, S. (2023). always.in.bits. (Doctoral thesis, Univerisy of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116634
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41477
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject	memory
dc.subject	decolonial
dc.subject	relations
dc.subject	imagination
dc.subject	haunting
dc.subject	racism
dc.subject	coloniality
dc.subject	alchemy
dc.subject.classification	Social Work
dc.subject.classification	Ethnic and Racial Studies
dc.subject.classification	Education--Curriculum and Instruction
dc.title	always.in.bits.
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Social Work
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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