Introduction Special Issue: Tectonic Intimacies of Transformation  Knowledges of Emancipation and Narratives of Resistance and the Amplification of Global Majority Voices

Youmna Deiri; Maha Bashri

doi:10.29333/ejecs/2390

Authors

Youmna Deiri Texas A&M International University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5433-2615
Maha Bashri United Arab Emirates University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9208-3816

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/2390

Keywords:

Resistance, Postcolonial, global majority, pedagogy, joy, solidarity, Tectonic intimacies of transformation, postcolonial structures, knowledge production, global majority scholars

Abstract

Tectonic intimacies address the relationship between violence, resistance, and hope in academia with a specific focus on Global Majority scholars. It analyses colonial power dynamics in knowledge production and the effect of such dynamics on the emotions of people and communities using the concept of tectonic shifts. The contributions highlight how intimate acts of survival, cultural assertion, and collective care serve as forms of resistance, creating ruptures within colonial epistemologies and facilitating the emergence of postcolonial knowledges. These acts, which are regarded as the strategies of personal survival, present new theoretical paradigms that problematize the dominant epistemologies. Postcolonial intimacies emerge in these practices, as scholars engage in acts of love, solidarity, and healing that challenge the violence of colonialism. Specifically, the problem raises the question of the importance of creativity, such as narrative, visual, and performative, as well as joy, as agents of change. In these various ways of involvement, the work contributes to decolonial practice and foregrounds healing, the people’s power, and liberation in transforming knowledge creation processes in academic and societal contexts.

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Author Biographies

Youmna Deiri, Texas A&M International University

Youmna Deiri (She/Her) is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Texas A&M International University in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her scholarship centers on the experiences of bi/multilingual educators from Arab communities and multilingual early childhood education and home, school and community relations.

Maha Bashri, United Arab Emirates University

Maha Bashri, is an Associate Professor of Communication at the United Arab Emirates University. Her research centers on political communication and technology’s impact on social change in the Global South, especially in African contexts. She is the Research Chair for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) International Communication Division.

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