[Minorcompositions] Next Monday - Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures

[Minor Compositions]

*Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures*
Monday November 10th @ 7PM UK Time, online 
<https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/99868337927>


Minor Compositions invites you to an online conversation with Stefano 
Harney, Teuku Ferdiansyah Thajib, and Hypatia Vourloumis on the occasion 
of the publication of /Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless 
Societies in the Maluku Islands/ by Bima Satria Putra. The book traces 
the histories of the Alifuru peoples: those who resisted incorporation 
into the state formations of Ternate, Tidore, colonial empires, and the 
modern Indonesian nation-state. Drawing on oral histories, early travel 
accounts, and anarchist anthropology, it rethinks Maluku not as a 
periphery to empire but as a space where alternatives to state power and 
hierarchical authority were lived, fought for, and continuously reassembled

The discussion will bring together Harney, Thajib, and Vourloumis to 
reflect on how these histories of statelessness resonate with 
contemporary struggles for autonomy, decolonization, and new forms of 
collective life. How do the legacies of Alifuru resistance speak to 
current critiques of extraction, forced assimilation, and the ongoing 
violence of nation-states? What lessons might be drawn from practices of 
federation, mutual aid, and refusal in the archipelago for thinking 
politics otherwise today? Together, the speakers will consider how the 
histories illuminated in Anarchy in Alifuru unsettle dominant narratives 
of modernity and open space for minor, insurgent forms of world-making.


*Bios:* Stefano Harney is a writer, educator, and theorist known for his 
work on logistics, study, and collective life. He is co-author (with 
Fred Moten) of /The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study/ and 
/All Incomplete/. His research explores autonomy, debt, governance, and 
the politics of refusal, always with an eye toward practices of shared 
life that exceed state and capitalist capture. He teaches widely across 
the globe and collaborates in collective study projects that blur the 
line between theory, pedagogy, and militant research.

Ferdiansyah Thajib is a researcher and educator whose work focuses on 
queer politics, affect, and the intersections of memory, trauma, and 
collective healing in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Current he is a 
senior lecturer at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Since 2007 he has 
been a member of the KUNCI Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, where 
he has been involved in developing practices of critical pedagogy, 
artistic research, and collaborative forms of knowledge production. His 
writing and projects explore how marginal communities craft modes of 
survival, endurance, and solidarity.

Hypatia Vourloumis is a scholar of performance, poetics, and 
anticolonial thought with a focus on Indonesia. She holds a Ph.D. in 
performance studies from NYU and has published widely in journals such 
as /Women & Performance/, /Theatre Journal/, and /Performance Research/. 
She is co-author (with Sandra Ruiz) of /Formless Formation/ (Minor 
Compositions, 2021) and /The Alleys/ (NP, 2024). Her work often emerges 
through collaboration with theorists, artists, and activists, engaging 
questions of aesthetics, politics, and autonomous forms of collective life.

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