The collective resistance of a people as a process, relies on the coordinated collective actions and active engagement towards justice, to resist dominant hegemonies as well as colonial and imperial power structures.
Collective resistance requires attentiveness, action, and reaction on a group level; this can stem from nurturing relationships within existing social structures, as well as through forming new alliances, through co-creating and disseminating local situated knowledges and knowledge gained in previous movements, through all means available to a collective to undermine hegemonic and imperialist power structures in their context.
To resist means to change; to create a new situation coming from the collective initiative, which lies beyond the institutions, power structures, urban capital, patriarchy, racism, and coloniality.
As we have been more clearly observing the imperial and hegemonic power structures we are all subjected to, these are some of the thoughts we’ve been reflecting on.
In makāna, we see our work in Jordan as a pattern of acts that aim to undermine and destabilise structures of dominance through the production of decolonial thought and praxis.
At the time being, the gains for those practices might be limited and partial, but they are nonetheless cumulative. And so we believe that collective action in resistance transforms us into active citizens who challenge and change in fight for our collective freedom.