This online ISSR seminar took place on December 13, 2024. Christopher Powel from Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada and Monica Sanchez-Flores from Thompson Rivers University, Canada were the speakers in this session.
Christopher Powell's talk, titled Radical Relationalism Revisited, delved into the various dimensions of radical relationalism, offering a revised perspective on their 2013 article, "Radical Relationalism: A Proposal". This included touching upon ontology, epistemology, ethics, politics, the self, and the spirit, and the interconnections between these themes within the radical relationalism framework.
Monica Sanchex-Flores's talk Radical Relational Individuality (RRI): Decolonial Expansiveness and Freedom explores the colonial roots of concepts like individuality, human rights, and cosmopolitanism. Their talk deep dives into colonial histories that dehumanize racialized groups. They offer Radical Relational Individuality (RRI) as an embedded, and expansive framework that emphasizes the interconnectedness of embodied individuals with their environments, and relationships.
Books referred to in this talk-
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery
Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terrence Real