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<p><b>Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures</b><br>
Monday November 10th @ 7PM UK Time, <a
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<p>Minor Compositions invites you to an online conversation with
Stefano Harney, Teuku Ferdiansyah Thajib, and Hypatia Vourloumis
on the occasion of the publication of <i>Anarchy in Alifuru: The
History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands</i> 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<br>
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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.<br>
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<b>Bios:</b> 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 <i>The Undercommons: Fugitive
Planning and Black Study</i> and <i>All Incomplete</i>. 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.<br>
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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. <br>
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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 <i>Women & Performance</i>, <i>Theatre
Journal</i>, and <i>Performance Research</i>. She is co-author
(with Sandra Ruiz) of <i>Formless Formation</i> (Minor
Compositions, 2021) and <i>The Alleys</i> (NP, 2024). Her work
often emerges through collaboration with theorists, artists, and
activists, engaging questions of aesthetics, politics, and
autonomous forms of collective life.</p>
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