Kolar Aparna

Tutkimuksen ja opetuksen kuvaus

As a diasporic artist and academic I have enabled and participated in the imaginal and material work part of student and staff of colour movements for epistemic plurality in European Universities the last decade. I mostly work in and through conversations to arrive at relational modes of thinking, being, conversing, listening, performing, and writing to produce situated knowledges across margins and peripheries, and from ThirdWorld/Global South as a relation (not a geopolitical region). Such work also questions politics of knowledge production (in the fields of border studies, migration and refugee studies, and in European academy at large in our present conjuncture) and participates in opening the university as part of community building (for and with displaced knowers) and making relational histories otherwise not sensed. My interrogations, engagements and conversations are more recently moving around questions of politics, ethics and aesthetics to build minor social theory in the present colonial conjuncture.