Sandoval – Lecture 5 – Conclusions

From a self-evaluation, the construction of the meta-witnessing becomes more visible, more palatable to the decolonized individual. Here, a video from In Lak’Ech.

Sandoval – Lecture 4 – Practicing the Conocimiento

The artists mentioned during the lecture were:

Sweet Honey in the Rock

Aztlan Underground

Sandoval – Lecture 3 – The Feminist Third World Liberation (The Conocimiento)

How to create InterCultural Coalitions?

THE CONOCIMIENTO = Inner Work / Public Acts

- To change negativities into strengths; to heal the traumas of racism and other systemic desconocimientos. You look beyond the illusions of separate interests to a shared interest – your in this together, no one’s an isolated unit.

Tu camino de conocimiento requires that you encounter your shadow side and confront what you’ve programmed yourself & been programmed by your cultures to avoid (desconocer), to confront the traits more from a militarized zone to a round table --> To develop the courage to witness yourself.

The extension of consciousness -->  Systemic change across all fields of knowledge

The binaries … are collapsing:

Mind                                            Body

Colored                                       White

Male                                            Female

                   NEPANTLA

                    (3^rd Space)

• ·      interconnectivity
• ·      enact a retribalization by recognizing
• ·      new tribalism

Based on the literature in the sillabus of Gloria Anzaldúa (2002). “Now Let Us Shift: The Path of Conocimiento...Inner Work, Public Acts,” from This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, New York: Routledge.


Marlou Kummu (from Netherlands) suggested to compare this work with The Kübler-Ross Stages of Grief, which can be seen here and here.

The complete audio for this session is here.

Chela Sandoval, Lecture 2

Little by little we are starting to express ourselves the way Prof. Sandoval intends us to do.


A quick note:


Syncopation

in music, the displacement of regular accents associated
with given metrical patterns, resulting in a disruption of 
the listener's expectations and the arousal of a desire for 
the reestablishment of metric normality; hence the characteristic 
"forward drive" of highly syncopated music. Syncopation 
may be effected by accenting normally weak beats in a 
measure, by resting on a normal accented beat, or by tying 
over a note to the next measure.
Source: Dictionary.com


Here, the complete audio.

Chela Sandoval, Lesson 1 - Methodology of the Oppressed

I've done a complete report on the first lecture of Chela Sandoval, which was a great one, but somehow it wasn't published the way I intended. Here is the audio for most of the class. Unfortunately I had to stop because my batteries were dying.