Defending Smallness - 1 Week

Mon+Th, 6-8pm ET
1 week, Feb 18+21

This course enlists the idea of smallness as a framework for understanding decolonial approaches to creating more just and equitable futures. We will examine scholarship from Caribbean Studies and Oceania Studies to philosophize smallness. Considering ideas of grandiosity and mass regions like continents to be tools of imperialism, we explore the value of smallness by attending to the cultures, spaces, and landscapes of small island countries.

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Instructor: Claritza Maldonado is an interdisciplinary educator, researcher, arts and culture practitioner, creative writer, and program manager. As a PhD Candidate in American Studies at Brown University, her research interests include cultural geography, memory, sound, and diaspora, as well as practices across museums, archives, public art, and digital spaces.