Colonially Mediated Spaces and Beings : From Oppression to Liberation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibnelkaïd, Samira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Colonial influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

Navigating the intricate relationships between mobility, identity, and power structures, Samira Ibnelkaïd presents a novel framework that challenges dominant narratives that frame migration as a crisis and racialized individuals as threats.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Omnicolonial Matrix of Disruption

The European (Anti)Migration Obsession

A Critical Phenomenology of Interaction to Study the Lived Experience of High-Skilled Racialized Migrants in Finland

Structure of the Book

Part 1: For a Critical Phenomenology of Interaction

Part 2: The Self, the Other, and Their Lived Experience of the World

Part 3: Being-in-the-Colonial-World: Racism and Migration in Colonial Fortress Europe

Part 4: Toward Collective Liberation, Toward Ubuntu and Ahimsa

Part 1 Part: For a Critical Phenomenology of Interaction

1 Positionality of the Author and Context of the Research

Being a Racialized, Gendered Scholar in Western Academia

My Indigenous and Migrant Identity

Resisting Racism and Sexism in Academia Through Parrhesia

Context of This Research

My Research Trajectory

My Encounter(s) with Finnish Society

First Time in Finland

Second Time in Finland

Ethnographic Fieldwork and Empirical Data

A Multidimensional Fieldwork

Experienced Data

Collected Data

Technical Setup

Addressing the Observer's Paradox

The Corpus: Documenting the Lived Experience of High-Skilled Racialized Migrants in Finland

Key Takeaways

The Researcher's Identity Shapes the Research Process

The Idea of an Impartial Observer Is Rooted in European Coloniality

Resisting Western Academic Structures Enacts Epistemic Justice

Knowledge Is Co-Constructed with Research Participants

Central to Decolonial Resistance in Academia Is Parrhesia

My Research Trajectory Led Me to Develop the Critical Phenomenology of Interaction Framework

Experienced Data and Collected Data Are Co-Constitutive

This Book Constitutes an Epistemic Praxis Toward Liberation.

2 Critical Phenomenology of Interaction: A Novel Framework

(Critical) Phenomenology

The Phenomenological Approach: Going Back to the Things Themselves

The Phenomenological Reduction: Finding the Essence

The Epoch é or Bracketing

The Eidetic Reduction or Reduction Proper

Phenomenology's Technological Turn: Phenomenotechnics and Digital Ontophany

Phenomenology's Critical Turn: Uncovering and Challenging Oppressive Structures

Critical Phenomenology as Both Philosophical Endeavor and Sociopolitical Activism

The Colonization of the Lifeworld by the System

(Decolonial) Visual Ethnography

Visual Ethnography, Making Use of Digital Tools

The Colonial Foundations of Ethnography

Decolonizing the Ethnographic Methodology

Decolonizing Knowledge Production

Centering Indigenous Epistemologies

Reimagining Research Ethics

Embracing Reflexivity and Positionality

Multimodal Interaction Analysis: Observing the Multimodal Nature of Social Interactions

The Concept of Interaction

The Multimodal Nature of Interactions

The Digital and Algorithmic Mediation of Social Interactions

Toward Critical Phenomenology of Interaction

An Epistemological Return to the African Origins of Philosophy

An Interdisciplinary Approach Rooted in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception

Core Methodology and Objectives of Critical Phenomenology of Interaction

The Methodology of Critical Phenomenology of Interaction

Description of the Methodology of CPI

Types of Data Employed in Critical Phenomenology of Interaction

Main Intentions of Critical Phenomenology of Interaction

Phenomenology Seeks to Understand the Conditions of Possibility for a Phenomenon

There Exists a Technical Mediation Inherent to All Manifestation of the Self.

Critical Phenomenology Allows for the Uncovering of Power and Oppression

The Colonization of the Lifeworld Is a Continued Threat to Intersubjectivity

Visual Ethnography Allows for a Shift from Logocentric to Multisensory Observation

Decolonizing Ethnography Is a Necessary Step Toward Epistemic Justice

Multimodal Interaction Analysis Allows Us to Study Hybrid Sociabilities in Detail

Returning to the African Origins of Philosophy Challenges Eurocentrism

Critical Phenomenology of Interaction Is a Transformative Framework

Part 2 Part: The Self, the Other, and Their Lived Experience of the World

3 Identity (Co)Construction: A Multidimensional Phenomenon

The Intersubjective Dimension of Identity Construction

The Phenomenological Co-Constitution of Self and Other

The Interpersonal Encounter as the Locus of the Intersubjective Experience

The Encounter, a Phenomenon of Appearance

The Structure of the Encounter

Identity in Interaction

The Ontological Matrix of Identity

The Aesthesiological Dimension of Identity Construction

Empathy and Emotion, the Primary Vectors of Intersubjectivity

Empathy as a Modality for Intersubjectivity

Emotion as a Dynamic Intersubjective Process

Focus on a Central Emotion: Happiness

Our World Is Constituted Through Sensory Experience

Experience as a Multifaceted Interaction with the World

Sensoriality as a Form of Language Between the Self and Their World

The Situated Dimension of Identity Construction

The Lived Spaces and Modern Heterotopias of Human Experience

Our Experience of Time Informs Our Sense of Self and Other

The Other Is Necessary in the Constitution of the Self

We Find Each Other in Interpersonal Encounters

Identity Is Ontologically Co-Constructed in Interaction.

Emotions and Empathy Are the Foundation of Intersubjectivity

We Co-Constitute the World Through Sensory Experience

The Spatial-Temporal Milieu Shapes the Phenomenology of Human Experience

4 The Embodied Experience of the World

The Co-Constitution of the Body and the Lived World

Corporeal Schema, the Subject's Anchor to the World

Corporeality-in-Interaction, the Bedrock of Interpersonal Relations

Gestures as Introspective Access to the Embodied Self

The Face, a Unique Site of Ethical Encounter

The Gaze Shapes the Relational Space Between Individuals

Digital Embodiment, the Extension of Corporeality

Body and Digitality: Biomechanism versus Virtualism

Emoticons as Performative Acts

Artifacted Intercorporeality and Technobodily Literacy

Flesh of the World and Intercorporeality, the Ontological Weaving of the World

Flesh of the World, Transcending the Tangible Boundaries of the Body

Intercorporeality, a Network of Bodies

Exosomatization and Artifacted Intercorporeality, Extending Bodies

Exosomatization, Transcending the Biological Being

Artifacted Intercorporeality, the Convergence of Self, Other, and Tekhn ê

From Digital Literacy to Technobodily Literacy

Situated and Distributed Agency for Collective Intelligence

Conatus and Agency: Situating the Self Within a Web of Human and Artifactual Relations

Conatus, the Self-Affirmation and Realization of One's Essential Nature

Enacting Conatus Through Agency

Affordances and Distributed Agency in Digital Interactions

Affordances, the Reciprocity Between Individuals and Their Environment

Distributed Agency, a Hybrid Network of Actors and Relations

Collective Intelligence: No One Knows Everything, Everyone Knows Something

Our Body Mediates Our Relation to the World

The Body Is Discourse.

Boundaries Between Corporeality and Technology Become Dynamic and Fluid

Individuals Develop Embodied Skills and Reflexivity in and on Hybrid Spaces

No One Knows Everything, Everyone Knows Something

Part 3 Part: Being-in-the-Colonial-World: Racism and Migration in Colonial Fortress Europe

5 Race as a Political Construct and Racism as a Political Project

Western Construction of Race and Racial Hierarchies

Medieval and Early Modern Period: Proto-Racial Concepts and Religious Racism

The Etymology of "Race"

Protoracial Ideology and Religious Racism

Early Encounters and Human Trafficking

Enlightenment and Scientific Racism: From Divine Order to Natural Order

The Development of Racial Classifications

Philosophical Contributions to Racial Ideologies

Colonialism, Slavery, and the Entrenchment of Racial Hierarchies

Colonial Demographic Justifications

Ideological Justifications, the Myth of the "White Man's Burden"

The Jamestown Example: Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 in Virginia

Consolidations of Scientific Racism: Anthropology and Entertainment Intertwined

The Rise of Scientific Racism

The Development of Social Darwinism and Eugenics

Twentieth-Century Transformation: Changing Perspectives on Race

European Wars and the Reevaluation of Racial Ideologies

Civil Rights Movements and Anti-Colonial Struggles

Modern Genetics and the Decline of Biological Race

Contemporary Approaches to Racialization: Race as a Social Construct

Race as a Social Construct

Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory

Social Media Movements: Challenging Racial Hierarchies, Violence, and Oppression Through Digital Tools

Pitfalls of Contemporary Racism-Without-Race: Color Blindness and Discursive Deracialization

The Finnish Process of White Racialization

Ethnogenesis of the Finnish Population.

Finnish Racial Counter-Identification Process.

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Print version: Ibnelkaïd, Samira Colonially Mediated Spaces and Beings

ISBN:

9798216257684

9781978769861

OCLC:

1597384378