Parahumanity in Cockpit Country, Jamaica, as a minor mode of resistance amongst contemporary maroon communities.

我提出的研究是一个实践为主导的人类学探索人类-动物-生命形式的关系在牙买加座舱国家的栗色社区。我将探讨如何颠覆性地利用超人性的延续来抵制和重新校准殖民主义和启蒙运动关于身体、人格和能动性的概念，提供一种少数主义和反殖民主义的模式。非人道主义是Monique Allewaert在她的专著《Ariel’s Ecology》中创造的一个术语，指的是17世纪和18世纪美洲热带地区被奴役的非洲人的主体性（2013年）。超人类被维持为“超”或“超”人类，不被赋予（白人，男性）主体的本体或政治权利。然而，《超人类》也提供了人类-动物-生命形式之间等级区别的消解，揭示了对西方人类类别的可取性的深刻怀疑。作为一种存在方式的非人道主义如何表明加勒比空间的居住方式偏离殖民主义的逻辑，从而在其中可能的纠正模式？在“驾驶舱国家”中，不同的动物-人类-生命形式的关系是如何促成人类意义上的反殖民主义转变的？通过对这些不同关系表现方式的民族志调查——通过日常互动、共享知识系统和权力动态——我的研究将询问，在低等社会中，超人性可能以何种方式呈现出一种持续抵抗的模式。作为一个以实践为主导的博士，我的研究将包括16mm和数字格式的实验电影工作。

My proposed research is a practice-led, anthropological exploration of human-animal-lifeform relations amongst the maroon community in Cockpit Country, Jamaica. I will explore how a continuation of parahumanity might be subversively used to resist and recalibrate colonial and Enlightenment conceptions of the body, personhood and agency, offering a minoritarian and anticolonial mode. Parahumanity is a term coined by Monique Allewaert in her monograph, Ariel's Ecology, that refers to the subjectivity forced upon enslaved Africans in the American Tropics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (2013). The parahuman is sustained as "para" or "beside" humanity and not accorded the ontic or political rights of the (white, male) subject. However, parahuman also offers a dissolution of the hierarchical distinctions between human - animal - lifeform, revealing a deep scepticism about the desirability of the Western category of the human. How might parahumanity as a mode of existence indicate ways of inhabiting Caribbean spaces that depart from the logic of colonialism and thus the modes of redress possible within it? How do the differing animal-human-lifeform relations in Cockpit Country lend themselves to an anticolonial shift in what it means to be human? Through an ethnographic investigation into the ways these differing relationships manifest - through quotidian interaction, shared knowledge systems and power dynamics - my research will ask in what ways parahumanity might present a mode of ongoing resistance within subaltern communities. As a practice-led PhD, my research will incorporate experimental film work across 16mm and digital formats.