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

我建议的研究是一个实践为主导的，人类学探索的人与动物之间的关系，在驾驶舱国家，牙买加栗色社区。我将探讨如何延续类人性可能被颠覆性地用来抵制和重新校准殖民和启蒙运动的身体，人格和机构的概念，提供一个少数人主义和反殖民模式。Parahhumanity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观性。超人类被维持为“帕拉”或“旁边”的人类，不给予本体或政治权利的（白色，男性）的主题。然而，类人也提供了一个人-动物-生命形式之间的等级区分的溶解，揭示了对西方人类类别的可取性的深刻怀疑。作为一种生存方式的准人类如何表明居住在加勒比空间的方式背离了殖民主义的逻辑，从而也背离了在殖民主义中可能采取的补救方式？《驾驶舱之乡》中不同的动物-人类-生命形式关系是如何导致人类意义上的反殖民主义转变的？通过对这些不同关系的表现方式的民族志调查-通过埃塞俄比亚的互动，共享的知识系统和权力动态-我的研究将询问超人类可能以何种方式在下层社区中呈现持续抵抗的模式。作为一个以实践为主导的博士，我的研究将包括16毫米和数字格式的实验电影作品。

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.