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Anthropology

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ABSTRACTS

December 25, 2021

 

Academic

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  • “‘Up’ the Hierarchy Ladder and Into ‘The Secret Garden’ of Social and Gender Inequality”. Presentation at the Consortium of Gender Scholars, Nazarbayev University, 18th September 2019
  • “Women’s Education for a Sustainable World”. Keynote Speaker (also opened the ceremony for the Science, Art, and Sustainability Project) at Vanitha College, Hyderabad, India; 9 August 2016
  • “Epistemology and Engineering: a Critique of Narratives and Civilization”. Invited lecture for the academic staff of the CK Reddy College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, open to all disciplines, but mostly attended by professors from engineering (bio-engineering included), environmental, physics, and architecture departments, India; 10 August 2016
  • “Sociology as a Narrative of Civilization”. Department of Sociology, Osmania University, Hyderabad. Invited lecture, India; 9 August 2016
  • “Critique of Civilization and Prospects of Education in an Imperilled World”. 5th Orientation Course for Furthering Professionalization of Educators. Invited lecture for professors at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, on the importance of critique of civilization across academic disciplines for a new and viable educational model. 8 August 2016
  • “Epistemology, Civilization, and the Roots of War”. Public lecture at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. 4 August 2016
  • “Civilization and Patriarchy: The Domestication of Sex and the Origins of Gender”. Invited speaker at Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Tapti Hostel Public Lecture series, India; 3 August 2016
  • “Origin Stories and Political Paradigms”. Invited lecture by the Department of Political Science, Delhi University, India; 3 August 2016

General

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  • “Women’s Education for a Sustainable World”. Keynote Speaker (also opened the ceremony for the Science, Art, and Sustainability Project) at Vanitha College, Hyderabad, India; 9 August 2016
  • “Epistemology and Engineering: a Critique of Narratives and Civilization”. Invited lecture for the academic staff of the CK Reddy College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, open to all disciplines, but mostly attended by professors from engineering (bio-engineering included), environmental, physics, and architecture departments, India; 10 August 2016
  • “Sociology as a Narrative of Civilization”. Department of Sociology, Osmania University, Hyderabad. Invited lecture, India; 9 August 2016
  • “Critique of Civilization and Prospects of Education in an Imperilled World”. 5th Orientation Course for Furthering Professionalization of Educators. Invited lecture for professors at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, on the importance of critique of civilization across academic disciplines for a new and viable educational model. 8 August 2016
  • “Epistemology, Civilization, and the Roots of War”. Public lecture at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. 4 August 2016
  • “Civilization and Patriarchy: The Domestication of Sex and the Origins of Gender”. Invited speaker at Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Tapti Hostel Public Lecture series, India; 3 August 2016
  • “Origin Stories and Political Paradigms”. Invited lecture by the Department of Political Science, Delhi University, India; 3 August 2016

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Scientific

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Descriptions of the invited lectures cycle in India can be found here

Descriptions of the invited lectures cycle in India can be found here

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Guest Lectures and Talks

2012

  • Domestication, De-domestication, and Rewilding“. Public talk part of the series on “Time, Domestication, and Stress” organised by the Anhilaal Collective on abolition of work and civilisation in India and Germany, 28th November 2021
  • Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education Book Launch, Video, at La Deferle, Montreal, Sunday, 19 May, 2013
  • How Ivan the Fool Defeats Civilized Pedagogies“, Brown Bag Lunch Seminar series: Community, solidarity, and popular education: Confronting the national security state. Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, 12:00pm Wednesday, 8 February, 2012

Part 1

Part 2

  • Open Forum: Layla AbdelRahim and John Zerzan respond (total time: 1hour and 51 minutes). Memphis, TN, 15 August 2009

Part 1

Part 2

Abstracts

  • “The Revolution Will Not Be Anthropomorphised: Civilised Knowledge and the Sabotage of Resistance” – Anti-civilisation Day, Anarchist Festival in Montreal, at La Déferle, Montreal; 18 May, 2013

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Interviews on podcasts

 Podcast

  • Interviewed on Anarchy Radio, Tuesday 21st April 2015
  • Civilized Racism Part II“. Revisiting the 2012 discussion of civilised spaces and the “open season” on Black and Brown people. Interviewed by Ron Lester Whyte, Deep Green Philly, 5 September 2014
  • The Final Straw, Part 1 begins at 40 minutes, interviewed by Bursts O’Goodness, July 2014
  • Gorilla Radio, CFUV (University of Victoria) by Chris Cook. Monday, 7th October 2013
  • Anarchy Radio, University of Oregon, Eugene, KWVA. Tue. 7th February 2012 (Wylden Freeborne introduces me on the 20th minute mark)
  • The Failure of Civilized Occupy – Interview for Deep Green Philly on 8th December 2011 . Also published on Occupy Philly Media on 10th December 2011

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Interviews in PRINT

Saturn devouring his son by Francisco de Goya, oil, 1819-1823

The Storyteller who Ate the World: Interview with Layla AbdelRahim“. Interviewed for Backwoods journal, Issue 2; 2018

 

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How Children’s Literature Links to Narcissism and Violence“. Interviewed by Marc Bekoff for Animal Emotions, in Psychology Today; May 2018

 

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Interview with Layla AbdelRahim on anarcho-primitivism, red anarchism and veganism“. In Czech Green Anarchy; November 2013:

1. in English (original) Regular PDF and  PDF pamphlet version

2. in Czech translation

3. in Portuguese translation

 

Snufkin and the woodies TJ

“Childhood, Parenting, and Domestication”. Interviewed by Andy Lewis for Issue #4 of In the Land of the Living

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Features and mentions in media and film

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The New York Times quotes Layla AbdelRahim in the article “Rewilding’ Missing Carnivores May Help Restore Some Landscapes” by JoAnna Klein, March 16, 2018

 

CBC Radio Noon: a prime-time programme. Called by Shawn Apel to comment on Ben Williams’ Shareocracy project. 12:30 pm Wed. 31st October 2018. Starts at minute 31 HERE 

 

AnOther Story of Progress – a documentary film on civilisation and resistance.

 

 

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Which Side podcast interview

December 6, 2021

Which Side podcast talks with Layla AbdelRahim about civilisation, anthropocentrism, India, nuclear weapons, rewilding, and much more.

29 August 2016

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Wild Children—Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education

December 5, 2021

Wild Children

Fernwood Publishing (Halifax & Winnipeg )
Columbia University Press (New York)
Publication date: April 2013
ISBN: 9781552665480 (Paperback, 130 pages)

Page Contents

  • Book Description
  • Table of contents
  • Endorsements
  • Reviews
  • Interview reviews
  • Translations
  • Related subjects
  • Book tour

Book Description

An anthropological analysis of education, Wild Children-Domesticated Dreams is the first study to examine the root cause of contemporary pedagogical systems from a truly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Examining the ontological roots of education from this confluence of ethology and anthropology reveals that the very category “human” is a requirement of civilization contingent on domestication and submission to the structural violence at the root of civilized pedagogical practices. The book explains the problems of violence, bullying, and personality and other social “disorders”, which mar the very experience of childhood and parenthood on an unprecedented scale.

Table of contents

1 In the beginning . . .

2 The Ontological Roots of Education—An Indispensable Introduction

3 Do Children Dream of Civilized Love?: Civilization and Its Contents

Empathy, Co-operation and Mutual Aid from an Interspecies Perspective
Children Do Not Dream of Carrots and Sticks

4 On Objects, Love and Objectifications

On Love
On Things: Questions of Cost
On Things: The Question of Love, Hatred and Shame
On Things: The Question of Categorization and Interests
On Love: The Question of Sex
On Making Things: Questions of Respect
On Using Things: Questions of Trust and Respect
On Things: Questions of Mistrust
On Issues That Objectify: Trust in Institution
On the Study of Things: Phenomenology et al
Finally: On Love, Objects and Objectifications

5 On Modernism and Education: The Birth of Contemporary Domesticated Pedagogies

The Nature of Mind Destruction
On Learning and Love
What, When and How Do People Learn
Institutionalization of Habitus
Predicting the Future
The Industrial Habitus of Education
The Verdict

6 In the End and towards a Feral Future

7 Bibliography and Index

Endorsements

“[This book] is a monument to our sense and original thinking.”

— John Taylor Gatto, author of Weapons of Mass Instruction

“This book provides an extremely stimulating analysis of the divisions and debilities engineered upon kids. … Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams is a hugely important work!”

— John Zerzan, author of Running on Emptiness

Reviews

In McGill Journal of Education (Vol 49, #1, 2014) by Rosalind Hampton (full review HERE)

“Throughout my reading of the book I was reminded of Ashanti Alston’s (2011) observation that the desire to be free and to learn requires that we be daring with the material we read, knowing that what we read can indeed change our lives. Wild  Children  is  this  kind  of  challenging  material,  exposing  and  calling  into  question  assumptions  about  what  we  think  we  know  about  civilization,  education and ourselves”.

Book launch lecture

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Interview review

Interviewed for MoreThought by Richard Capes, professor at Charles University, Prague, November 2015 (full interview HERE)

Related subjects

Anarchism;   Animal Studies;   Animal Rights;   Anthropology;   Childhood;   Culture & Society;  Education;   Ethology;   Geography;  Legal Studies;   Philosophy

Book tour

Book tour

(full tour HERE)

 

 

 

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Interview on Wild Children—Domesticated Dreams

This interview was conducted by Richard Capes, professor at Charles University, Prague, November 2015

“Schools teach children the principles of death and of suffering. They do not teach them the principles of life, which is diversity, which is being out there in the world. They teach them within closed systems, within closed buildings and walls, separated from the rest of the world. They teach them that violence is legitimate when it is applied from the top to the bottom and that it is illegitimate when it is practised in resistance or defence of diversity and life. They teach children that humanity is alien to this world, that success means pleasing those in authority who will own the products of our flesh, of our effort, of our work, of our love.” – Layla AbdelRahim

Transcript of the interview is available on the Morethought page.

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