Video, transcript, and key quotes from the talk by Christine Hong at the ICSZ “Battling the ‘IHRA Definition'” conference in October 2023.
We can see that against the possibility of Ethnic Studies being liberatory, we have these forces that are arguing for the imperial securitization of the field.
It’s a fundamental understanding that students who are in the belly of the beast play an inside role. There’s an inside-outside critique embedded in the idea of the Third World and an attempt on the part of a core of anti-imperialist student protesters who are organizing for these Third World colleges not to align themselves with the US war machine, but to remap these received dominant geopolitics by asserting their membership as part of a global decolonizing majority.