July 27, 2018
In her recent critique of kids’ books, Children’s Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation (Routledge; PB edition, 2018), Layla AbdelRahim recounts this striking tale from Onchukov’s collection of North Russian folk stories: A man was walking to Njonoksa, on the bridge… he saw a she-devil rambling: “A dress to impress I had; everything was taken […]
June 11, 2018
Layla returns to A Worldview Apart podcast and talks with Eric Garza about what attracted her to unschooling when her daughter was born, what unschooling means and how it worked for her, and how modern schooling diminishes people’s capacity for empathy, among other things. To learn more about education and child-rearing cultures read Wild Children — Domesticated Dreams: […]
Layla discusses the thesis of her book Children’s Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness (Routledge 2015, 2018) with Eric Garza on A Worldview Apart podcast, in which she critiques the foundational social narratives that support a human-centered view of the natural world and that compel people to perpetuate and acquiesce to oppression. Or, find […]
May 28, 2018
Stories we tell ourselves work to justify the abuse we inflict on the planet. Posted May 18, 2018 by Marc Bekoff, Animal Emotions on Psychology Today “The stories we tell ourselves mostly work to justify and veil the abuse we inflict on the planet and our nonhuman siblings. Within a blink of an eye, our civilisation […]
January 8, 2018
Some of the topics discussed in this interview are wildness and civilisation, Stanford prison experiment, science, and domestication.
Interviewed by Ron Lester Whyte for Deep Green Philly on the principles of anarcho-primitivism, cooperation, and anarchism. Part 1/3 To listen to the other 2 parts click HERE
Tonight, Layla AbdelRahim and Rabble Rouser discuss the marshmallow test, a more in-depth study of domestication and work, how they relate and are interdependent, and the role of deferred gratification in both modern civilized living, and how it controls action against civilization as well. Patience is not a virtue, it is a vampire. anarchy anarcho-primitivist […]
Topics racism, Ferguson, police violence, anarchism, primitivism, domestication Despite claims that we’ve entered a “post-racial” era, racism is alive and well, thriving even, and anti-black racism, in particular, continues to escalate. Layla AbdelRahim and I first discussed this topic several years ago after the Trayvon Martin murder. The recent modern-day lynching of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown by […]
Trayvon Martin, Anna Brown, Shaima Alawadi and Civilized Racism Layla speaks on the medicalisation of the oppressed and the civilised “othering” by means of constructs of illness and health. Interviewed by Ron Lester Whyte for Deep Green Philly, 29 March 2012 Civilized Racism part 1 (of 4) Civilized Racism part 2 (of 4) (2012) Revisiting Civilized Racism […]
December 14, 2017
Comprendre la base violente et civilisatrice qui mène à notre domestication, de l’ontologie civilisatrice à l’ontologie sauvage by MÉDIA RECHERCHE ACTION août – septembre 2012 Première partie d’une entrevue avec Layla AbdelRahim sur les concepts civilisateurs de l’homo sapiens moderne qui se conçoit à la fois comme ressource et comme prédateur. Quel rôle devrait-on occuper afin […]
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