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dc.contributor.advisorSteil, Justin
dc.contributor.authorJosiah-Faeduwor, Aiyah
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-15T13:11:56Z
dc.date.available2022-06-15T13:11:56Z
dc.date.issued2022-02
dc.date.submitted2022-03-22T19:15:51.805Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/143315
dc.description.abstractThe envisioning and deliverance of a collectively liberated future for all marginalized peoples is rooted in a rectified understanding of the redacted history of marginalized peoples. This paper uncovers a history of collective, collaborative, and communal economic traditions of pre-colonial societies in West Africa, with an anti-revisionist lens, in active repudiation of a capitalist, imperialist, and westernized erasure of Black self-subsistent, or self-reliant, economic tradition. Through the excavation and utilization of anthropologic, archaeologic, and historic research as well as case studies, this paper highlights the Yorubaland (pre-colonial Nigeria) Guild System of trade and labor organization, the Ghanaian Nnoboa cooperative farming system, and the Rotating Credit and Savings Associations (roscas) of pre-colonial Nigeria. The paper proceeds with an examination of the Boston Ujima Project, the Boston Food Solidarity Economy, and the Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity – Boston-based organizations and movements today that are actively intentioned on utilizing tools and approaches akin, and/or in intentional alignment with pre-colonial Black and indigenous collective principles and practice. Inspired and instructed by afrofuturism, emergent strategy and pleasure activism, this paper crescendos by engaging with these Black feministprovided frameworks through a communally-minded collectively self-reflexive dialogue addressing the plausibility of, reticence towards, and uncertainty accompanying this particular path towards collective liberation.
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology
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dc.titleRe-collective Revolution: A Reclamation of Black Self-Subsistent Economic Tradition
dc.typeThesis
dc.description.degreeM.C.P.
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
mit.thesis.degreeMaster
thesis.degree.nameMaster in City Planning


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