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In this episode, I begin my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition." In this book she tries to conceptualize an anti-oppressive political strategy that is not predicated upon difference, but that is focused on the similarities that bind people. I'm joined by Helene Bigras-Dutrisac to impart her expertise of chapter 4!

Timestamps: 

Introduction: Beyond Recognition (Beginning)

Ch. 1: Domination, Multiculturalism, and the Pathology of Recognition (21:15)

Ch.2 : Identity Politics, Deconstruction, and Recognition (28:45)

Ch. 3: Identity as Subordination, Abjection and Exclusion (37:36)

Ch. 4: The Necessity and Impossibility of Seeing (40:14).