Miriam Hillawi Abraham: THE NIGHT THAT DREAMS—COSMOLOGIES OF SCALE
Miriam Hillawi Abraham: THE NIGHT THAT DREAMS—COSMOLOGIES OF SCALE
THE NIGHT THAT DREAMS—COSMOLOGIES OF SCALE marks a new iteration of Miriam Hillawi Abraham’s longstanding research on pre-colonial African cosmologies. This body of work studies and draws constellations between African cosmologies and spatial orders as multi-scalar repositories of lived knowledges and world-building traditions. Working intersectionally, she seeks to uphold the rich tapestry of African cosmologies whilst complicating Western colonial legacies, which have long dictated their (mis)understanding. Against a backdrop of Western canonical bias, standardisation and homogeneity, Abraham’s work is an expansive offering to know, practice, and imagine otherwise in reclaimed agency over ancestral traditions.
THE NIGHT THAT DREAMS—COSMOLOGIES OF SCALE marks a new iteration of Miriam Hillawi Abraham’s longstanding research on pre-colonial African cosmologies. This body of work studies and draws constellations between African cosmologies and spatial orders as multi-scalar repositories of lived knowledges and world-building traditions. Working intersectionally, she seeks to uphold the rich tapestry of African cosmologies whilst complicating Western colonial legacies, which have long dictated their (mis)understanding. Against a backdrop of Western canonical bias, standardisation and homogeneity, Abraham’s work is an expansive offering to know, practice, and imagine otherwise in reclaimed agency over ancestral traditions.
