Biography
Javney Mohr is a Marxist activist-scholar pursuing Ph.D. studies at UCBerkeley. Grounded in decolonial thought, her research inquires the pedagogic and internationalist character of Third World resistance movements and tricontinental sovereignty struggles. Her work proposes decoloniality as the political activity of militant/revolutionary love and the ethical orientation of the Land.
Paper Abstract
Refusing Western-liberal notions of moral centrism, this presentation challenges the terms "decolonization" and "love" as defined by the imperial metropoles and pseudo-left, reclaiming their abolitionist implications. As the Canadian state pursues the protraction of its colonial imagination via a mass energy corridor across unsurrendered Indigenous territory, the Wet'suwet'en First Nation is blockading the largest extractive project in the history of the nation-state. Looking to the emancipatory struggle of WFN against Canadian settler-occupation as a whole space of praxis – a resistance that spans thirteen years and since the colonial impetus – this study explores the imperatives of decolonization exemplified by Wet'suwet'en and the Third World. In these sites of revolt and otherwise-in-the-making, internationalism is the heart and horizon of revolution, and blockade is at-once the negation of destruction and affirmation of life. Although the globalized praxis of coloniality appears interminable, a 'way forward' is not only (im)possible but always already everywhere underway.