To Become Something More: Decolonial and Pedagogical Village Encounters

Abstract

To Become Something More: Decolonial and Pedagogical Village Encounters reflects on entanglements within the Wang Chau Village resistance in the New Territories region of Hong Kong. It is an attempt in what art theorist Gerald Raunig refers to as “wild and transversal writing”-an untamed approach to writing that connects people from different disciplines, and subsequently builds new social bonds and lines of solidarity through its readers (Raunig, Gerald. 2013. Factories of Knowledge: Industries of Creativity. California:, 35). Exemplifying the cross-disciplinary approach of its writing, this text problematizes the legacy of British colonial government policies that continue to discriminate and dispossess villagers today; describes a praxis of co-organizing four Jackfruit Festivals with Wang Chau villagers (from 2017 to 2020); and shares a “pedagogy of the movement” within Hong Kong’s land struggles/resistances.