Refusal
On being ungovernable
ed. by Irene de Craen ;

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Author(s)

rémy-paulin twahirwa, Diana Al-Halabi, Jake Bowers, Zoe Todd, Siffharth Unnithan Kumar, Ritika Biswas, Diba Taj-Abadi, Fatemeh Kazemi, Musa Shadeedi, Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Dicky Takndare

Editor(s)

Irene de Craen

Publisher, year

Amsterdam : in house icw Framer Framed, 2026

Scope

213 p., illustrated, 24 cm.

Carrier

magazine

ISBN

9789083404431

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The tenth issue of Errant Journal looks into the decolonial practice of refusal. By being the absence of an action, refusal foregoes the binary relation or reactionism that is implicit in much of our resistances. A refusal is not against something per se but is rather aimed at opening up space for another way that may yet have to be imagined. More than an act of withdrawal or disengagement, refusal is generative of change and the creation of true alternatives to the status quo. Continuing from its own practice of refusal throughout the first nine issues of the journal, this issue explores a wide variety of ways and contexts in which refusal is practiced and looks into what subjects, histories, and politics these refusals produce. From refusing measurement and categorizations, to fugitivity, illegibility, (hunger) strikes, laziness, trespassing, and moratoria, this issue asks what is made possible when people no longer participate and instead become ungovernable.

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Person as subject

Dicky Takndare, Diana Al-Halabi, Fatemeh Kazami, RJ Ledesma

Keywords

decolonisation , counter culture , 0. strategies - general , anarchism , activisme - protest

Location

Cabinet 30 - 1 Slavery and Colonialism ; Facing up to the Past

Remarks

All issues of Errant Journal are to be found via their separate titles and on different locations, related to their themes. (For titles please check Errant journal)