Cultural production in several major cultural institutions, the most important of which are the university, the museum, the exhibit, and the archive. Exposes the different relations found within the cultural product, especially the interaction between dominant central approaches and the identity of the cultural product that are embodied in both its spatio-temporal and humanistic dimensions. Exploring concepts such as: violence and epistemological hegemony, colonialism and racism, orientalism, the invention of the ‘other,’ vis-à-vis notions such as: emancipation, liberation, justice, and new forms of Being. Emphasis will be placed on key texts from the Global South that have been concerned with critiquing and scrutinizing dominant frameworks of knowledge. This comes in parallel to organizing physical and virtual visits to selected cultural institutions.
