Imagining Revolutionary Humanism and Worlds Otherwise

Imagining Revolutionary Humanism and Worlds Otherwise

Interactive Workshop

Friday 6 December 2024, 1pm -2pm

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities,

All welcome

Join us for an interactive workshop, curated and led by Professor Levi Gahman. This interactive workshop will focus on the emancipatory praxis of revolutionary Caribbean thinkers including Frantz Fanon, Claudia Jones, Suzanne Césaire, Jacqueline Creft, and Walter Rodney. In doing so, it will make the case that compassion, creative expression, and militant struggle are necessary aspects of both collective liberation and individual self-actualisation. Attendees are asked to bring one item (e.g. photo, object, memory) that represents joy or freedom.

Biography: Levi Gahman (he/him) is a Professor of Emancipatory Politics at the University of Liverpool and faculty affiliate with the University of the West Indies. His work focuses on grassroots struggles for land, dignity, and self-determination. He began his career in the Caribbean and Central America with a concentration on international development, political geography, and participatory methods. He now conducts movement-relevant research that features creative expression with frontline communities and activists who are confronting structural violence, environmental conflict, and the enduring aftermaths of empire. Levi is author of Building Better Worlds: Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas (Bristol University Press) and Land, God, and Guns: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity (Zed Books). He is also co-producer of the podcast series The Crucible of Modernity (Surviving Society Productions) and a former addiction counsellor and human rights observer.

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Part of the Race and Resistance Research Hub events.