Layla AbdelRahim
Layla AbdelRahim | |
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Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1] | |
| Nationality | Russian, Sudanese[2] |
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Layla AbdelRahim is a
ecophilosophy, sociology, anarcho-primitivist thought, anarchism, epistemology, and critique of civilization, technology, and education.[3][4] She attributes the collapse in the diversity of bio-systems and environmental degradation to monoculturalism and the civilized ontology that explains existence in terms of anthropocentric utilitarian functions.[5]
Her books Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness (Routledge 2015) and Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education[6] (Fernwood 2013) make a contribution to children's literary theory and a critique of education as rooted in the civilized need for the domestication of children.[7]
Education
AbdelRahim received her A.B. from
Université de Montréal, Department of Comparative Literature. Her dissertation entitled Order and the Literary Rendering of Chaos: Children's Literature as Knowledge, Culture, and Social Foundation, examines the effect of ontological premises on human self-knowledge (anthropology) and the repercussions of such knowledge on the anthropogenic destruction of the world's life systems and diversity.[8]
Thought
AbdelRahim traces the root of all oppression to the ontological premises of
evolutionary theory, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, environmental economics, education, literary theory
.
Media appearances
AbdelRahim is featured in anOther Story of Progress, a documentary film by Thomas Toivonen, as one of the world's leading contemporary anarcho-primitivist philosophers.[14]
Selected works
Books
- AbdelRahim, Layla (2015). Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-66110-2.
- Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education. Halifax: Fernwood. 2013. ISBN 978-1-552-66548-0.
Articles
- AbdelRahim, Layla (May 2008). "Beyond the Symbolic and towards the Collapse". The Anarchist Library. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- AbdelRahim, Layla (June 2009). "On Objects, Love, and Objectifications". The Paulinian Compass. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- AbdelRahim, Layla (November 2009). "The Nature of Mind Destruction". The Paulinian Compass. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- AbdelRahim, Layla (December 2009). "Avatar: An Anarcho-Primitivist Picture of the History of the World". The Anarchist Library. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- AbdelRahim, Layla (July 2010). "Genealogies of Wilderness and Domestication in Children's Narratives: Understanding Genesis and Genetics in the Untangling of Identity". The Paulinian Compass. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- AbdelRahim, Layla (May 2014). "Education as the Domestication of Inner Space". Fifth Estate (391). Retrieved April 3, 2015.
References
- ^ Jandric, Petar. "Anarchism's Posthuman Future" (PDF). Anarchist Studies. 26 (1): 117. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
- ^ "FEATURED AUTHOR Layla AbdelRahim". Routledge. Retrieved Jul 25, 2020.
AbdelRahim was born in Moscow, in an inter-racial, inter-continental, and multi-lingual family. As a child she moved to Sudan...
- ^ Routledge. "Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness (Hardback)". Routledge. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ ""Primitivism" 101". Deep Green Philly. 2011-05-05. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ "Interview with Layla AbdelRahim". In the Land of the Living. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ The book launch during "La journée contre la civilisation" at La Déferle (May 19, 2013) http://www.mediarechercheaction.info/?p=602 Archived 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Routledge. "Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness (Hardback)". Routledge. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ Abdelrahim, Layla (2011-11-03). "PAPYRUS - Université de Montréal: Order and the literary rendering of chaos : children's literature as knowledge, order, and social foundation". Papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ miltsovorg. "Layla AbdelRahim - How Ivan the Fool Defeats Civilized Pedagogies". YouTube. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ "Coop média de Montréal | Journalisme indépendant". Montreal.mediacoop.ca. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ "Avatar: An Anarcho-Primitivist Picture of the History of the World (Layla AbdelRahim)". The Anarchist Library. 2010-01-21. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ "Beyond the Symbolic and towards the Collapse (Layla AbdelRahim)". The Anarchist Library. 2009-08-18. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ "Domestication, aliénation et civilisation (Layla AbdelRahim)". Montreal.mediacoop.ca. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
- ^ "anOther Story Of Progress | Watch Documentary Online Free". Documentary Heaven. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
External links
- Layla AbdelRahim's website
- Layla AbdelRahim on Facebook