Shadow Dancing: Colonizing Racisms and their Discontents
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This paper builds on Roger Bastide's assertion that we construct "race", and that colour in and of itself is without meaning. Deep futures of a causal and integral nature attempts to engage with the mythic and metaphoric roots that define reality, establish boundaries and maintain the structures of inequity that configure societies, shape civilisations and underpin the disempowerment of the vast majority of our planet (Inayatullah 2002; Slaughter 2004). When developing policy, shaping educational language and community strategies to counter racism we need to understand the power of our myths to impose meaning and validity on these interventions. One component of deep futures work is to expose, through a range of strategies, the myths and metaphors that we live by in order to allow us to engage them and develop others. Futures of this type also involves us in looking at our metaphors and being surprised. In seeing how we are complicit in much of the ugliness of the world, much of the Other that we deny yet
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