A panel with Elizabeth Perez (UC Santa Barbara), Graham Jones (MIT), and Yvonne Chireau (Swarthmore). Moderated by Matthew Engelke (IRCPL).
In what ways did colonial powers deploy the language of magic as a tool of domination? To what extent are magic and modernity mutually constitutive? How have stereotypes of superstition and the occult continued to mark (post)colonial subjects and minority communities? And, perhaps, what is to be done with respect to a rearticulation and reassertion of what gets cast as magic; can magic be decolonized?