Hybridity Workshop

Description

In-Person Session 1

While domestication and the wild share “blurry boundaries and messy interfaces” (Lien, Swanson, and Ween 2018, 4), domestication often finds itself challenged by the wild. Domestication seeks not only to eliminate wildness but also to exert control over both humans and more-than-humans, constituting a “generalized domestication” that exposes the entanglement of realities wherein racial, colonial, and ecological domination are interconnected (Hage 2017, 83–86). When domestication strives for order, wildness, as Jack Halberstam (2020, 7) argues, embodies the absence of order—it “disorders desire and desires disorder.” This workshop brings scholars into conversation to explore the intersection of domestication and wildness and to examine how a political and ethical understanding of hybridity challenges colonial and postcolonial politics. By delving into instances of state policies and scientific technologies of control regarding conservation and extinction, climate change, meat/dairy politics, animal trade or agro-industrial trajectories, participants will have the opportunity to reconsider how the domestic and the wild intersect, and how a nuanced understanding of wildness not only enables us to critique the Euro-American construction of freedom and liberal subjectivity, but also deconstruct the notion of the colonial being.

Period	24 Apr 2024
Event type	Workshop
Location	Canberra, Australia, Australian Capital TerritoryShow on map