The discussion will be centred on striking in an effort to devise concrete commitments, calls to action, or protocols for unlearning imperialism, divesting, and/or decolonizing the Feminist Media Studio and the larger institutional structures and communities in which it participates. In the distinguished event of 2020-21, Ariella Azoulay will enter into conversation with Razan alSalah (assistant professor, Communication Studies) and Krista Lynes (associate professor, Communication Studies Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies and Director, Feminist Media Studio) of the Feminist Media Studio, in order to understand striking as a pedagogical, political and aesthetic method for unlearning and resisting imperial violence. These prompts- addressed to museum workers, photographers, historians, and the governed-are tools in the larger project of unlearning imperialism, beginning with the multiple ways in which we all participate in imperial violence in our various roles and locations. In her latest tour de force, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, Ariella Asha Azoulay reframes the history of photography, the archive, and the museum by proposing that the camera’s. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s new book, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, separates each chapter with a set of prompts or invitations: “Imagine going on strike!” Her books include: Potential History Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019), Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012), The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008) and From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 (Pluto Press 2011).

Azoulay unlearning imperialism