This essay builds on the notion of 'racialized affects' in conjunction with recent educational theorizing of Sylvia Wynter's work on 'the human' to consider how these insights might extend conceptualizations on the 'coloniality of the affects' in curriculum and pedagogy. Specifically, the analysis shows how bringing into conversation Wynter's…

This essay draws on the concept of "difficult knowledge" to think with some of the interventions and arguments of affect theory and discusses the implications for curriculum and pedagogy in handling traumatic representations. The author makes an argument that affect theory enables the theorization of difficult knowledge as an…