Welcome to “Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed” on Humanities Commons (HC). We are an anti-colonial digital humanities pedagogy practice, representing the fields of English, Indigenous, and Filipinx studies; Information Studies; and Architectural History-Theory and Design Studies respectively. We lead workshops, deliver talks, produce writings, and teach courses that focus on three interrelated framings: media archaeology; community-focused digital storytelling; and online public knowledge and writing. Paulo Freire’s writings on the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” (1970) are foundational to the naming and structuring of this collective.
As we come together to learn in community, we also emphasize the ongoing erasures of and systemic oppressions towards Indigenous languages, cultures, knowledge systems, genders, and sexualities in the Global North and the Global South that make this responsibility of knowledge-making, deep listening, and strategic coalitional work particularly pressing for us. Our partnership remains committed to critical care and kinship, and to furthering a process of un-, re-, and co-learning in the context of critical DH pedagogy.
The core of our work is structured around anti-colonial principles, starting with naming our respective positionalities, as well as working on those positionalities to shape co-liberatory spaces within and connected to our disciplinary engagements. Our aim is to practice within deeper coalitional and cross-disciplinary frameworks that challenge the overlapping injustices of historically white, upper caste, and heteropatriarchal orders, whilst illuminating the specificities of those injustices and education-centered counternarratives in a given place.
We are Ashley Caranto Morford (HC: @ashleycarantomorford), Arun Jacob (HC: @arunjacob), and Kush Patel (HC: @kshpatel).
Reference: Freire, Paulo, and Myra Bergman Ramos. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1970.