Bunga Anthropologist/Anthropology. A bit engulfed in decoloniality, afropessimism, colonial matrix of power, Indigeneity, Tongan coloniality. 🌋🌋🌋🌊🇹🇴
Joined July 2021
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Embrace your Bunga.
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23 Jun 2023
It would be impossible to answer these questions without focusing on colonialism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and racial capitalism.
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27 Apr 2023
COLONIALITY OF CURRICULUM
Last night, my 15 year old son told me that in school he recently learned that the most developed regions in the world are the ones colonized by the UK. He is being taught about the so-called benefits of colonialism.
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3 Apr 2023
A '60s topo map of Niuafo'ou features blank areas with the enticing label 'Obscured by Cloud'. When Garth Rogers produced a thesis on the island he had to draw his own maps. They are works of art, as well as collections of data. In our digital era the hand drawn map is in decline
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14 Mar 2023
1/18 Richard Dawkins & his allies have been attacking the idea that Polynesians gained scientific knowledge during their thousands of years exploring the Pacific & settling lands like Aotearoa. Dawkins et al regard such an idea as a 21st C, 'woke' phenomenon. They're badly wrong
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Waka Yama retweeted
5 Mar 2023
Those who have been historically and systematically excluded from academia are constantly policed & pushed out, especially when their work interrogates the capitalist, heteropatriarchal, white supremacist, racist, & colonial order the university legitimates & actively reproduces.
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Waka Yama retweeted
13 Feb 2023
Check out my new substack post! Here I translate the introduction of one of Aníbal Quijano's most elaborate essays on the coloniality of power and social classification.
jairofunez.substack.com/p/co…
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Waka Yama retweeted
13 Feb 2023
Happy to announce the SAGE Handbook of Decolonial Theory Call for Proposals. Share widely!
TIMELINE
Abstracts due by March 27, 2023
Decision by May 1, 2023
Chapter drafts due by October 2, 2023
INQUIRIES: jairo.funez@ttu.edu
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Columbus died on May 20 😂❤️
14 Feb 2021
Valentine's Day is so commercial, let's not lose track of the real meaning of this special day
the day native Hawaiians stabbed British Captain James Cook right in his colonizing fucking neck on February 14, 1779 ❤️❤️❤️
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23 Jan 2023
2023 Tonga Research Association (TRA) conference will be held in Tonga 5-7 July hosted by the Tonga National University. @ASiulua @2cups0fSOUL @KaloMafi @RFaleolo @zaramasinaclark @CarolineMatamua @FunakiHine @TracieMafileo @EmaWolfgramm @sonia_fonua.
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17 Jan 2023
Today is the release date for my first book (Princeton UP)! The book provides an entirely new framework for understanding settler colonialism, ranging from the Assyrians all the way to contemporary China, Indonesia, Australia and Israel/Palestine. bitly.ws/z2FL
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17 Jan 2023
A reminder that "Universities were created for the sons of rich colonizers to continue the colonial project"
This doesn't mean, however, that the work we do within the "belly of the beast" isn't important. As García Peña teaches us, our work is situated within this contradiction
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Waka Yama retweeted
10 Jan 2023
People actually believe the US and Western European powers conquered and colonized the world because they're benevolent, seeking only to develop & civilized us. They're looking out for our best interest. After all, they built railroads in "unclaimed" territories...terra nullius.
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5 Jan 2023
National Library of Australia’s free digital archives may be forced to close without funding #Trove #saveTrove #fundTrove theguardian.com/culture/2023…
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17 Dec 2022
The ancestor Toni Morrison said,
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being…
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RT @Jairo_I_Funez: In Latin America, we're all mixed and that's why we have racial democracies, unlike the United States.🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩…
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1 Dec 2022
1/5 Willie Jackson says co-governance has to be put on hold. If it can't be done now, when Jackson's party has an absolute majority in parliament, can it ever be achieved? For me, these words show the alternative to co-governance, & a viable way to Tino Rangatiratanga.
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Knock knock
Who's there?
Not Damon Salesa 😂👀
28 Nov 2022
1/7 On Saturday I criticised Damon Salesa, boss of AUT University, for trying to sack 250 workers. Salesa has since locked his twitter account. What else could one expect, when he's been refusing to talk to his union for 50 days?
