Let’s draw: spoken poetry as a form of resistance in Inner Mongolia

Jesse Segura, Jesse Segura and Jesse Segura

Chapter Chapter 7 in Dialogues for Degrowth, 2025, pp 85-97 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter posits that exploring Mongolian spoken poetry as a form of resistance can illuminate the struggles against Statal power while highlighting the worldviews that counteract the hegemonic and capitalistic agents that Degrowth thwarts. Spoken poetry can be a subtle yet powerful act of resistance, presenting history from below, transmitting intergenerational knowledge, and fostering community solidarity. Specifically, poems read at a Nadaam festival in Inner Mongolia by children aged 5-16 embody resistance due to Mongolia's rich poetic history and its role in turbulent social, political, and economic environments. By incorporating everyday, often undetected forms of resistance, a culture of resistance becomes accessible to diverse and oppressed groups. Such voices create spaces that challenge colonial structures. I posit that Everyday forms of resistance, therefore, help degrowth discover new pathways, offering, for instance, a slower sense of time and, more generally, illuminating imagined alternative futures from oppressed groups of people.

Keywords: Degrowth; Everyday forms of resistance; Mongolia; Decoloniality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035320769
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