Thinking with Black Ecologies: Creative interruptions and anticolonial refusals Talk by Dr. Fikile Nxumalo  

The Goldfarb Summer Institute presents a Talk by Dr. Fikile Nxumalo

Date: Tuesday, May 19
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 PM
Location: The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery
Free
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Black ecologies are filled with possibilities for affirmative inquiry. This talk engages with potentials for creative engagements with situated Black ecologies that are anti-colonial, affirm Black childhoods, and unsettle neoliberal multiculturalism.

Dr. Fikile Nxumalo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, where they direct the Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab. They are also affiliated faculty in the School of the Environment. Their scholarship focuses on reconceptualizing early childhood education such that it is situated within and responsive to children’s inheritances of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, environmental precarity and their entanglements. Their research and pedagogical interests are informed by my experiences growing up in Eswatini and working as an early childhood educator and pedagogical facilitator with children and educators in North American settler colonial contexts.