PCI Newsletter March 2021
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Dear colleagues,
We are happy to send out this newsletter on International Women’s Day 2021.
March is also Women’s History Month in the USA. This year is special because it also celebrates 100 years of women's right to vote in the USA. This centenary was officially in August 2020, but will be celebrated in 2021 so as not to be sidelined by the pandemic.
The history of female suffrage is a contested one. Who were the main actors and to what extent did it marginalize black women, who had been so vital for the movement and fought also for the black right to vote. See for more information the articles here:
We will release the link on how to register for the upcoming free online conference Migrant Belongings (21-22-23 April 2021) after 15 March. The conference is co-organized with ECREA (DMM section Media Diaspora and Migration) and it promises to be a really exciting event.
Please take a look at our many ongoing activities and events, in addition to new, exciting CFPs, publications and job opportunities.
Sandra Ponzanesi
Director, PCI
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The 10th Postcolonial Studies Initiative Film Series offers monthly online film suggestions, with a pick of the month by scholars in the field who briefly comment on their choice to share with the PCI community. These recommendations are either available online and with free access, or available for rental for a small fee. The 10th PCI Film Series draws on a variety of different contexts in our global postcolonial world, reflecting on its political, cultural and aesthetic realities and challenges.
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Angry Inuk (2016)
This month's PCI movie of the month was suggested by the “Postcolonial Interventions” class at University College Utrecht, a course designed by Sandra Ponzanesi and taught by Dr. Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken (Gender Studies, Utrecht University and Senior Reseacher/Research Coordinator, Research Center for Material Culture, Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen).
 This month's PCI movie of the month was suggested by the "Postcolonial Interventions" class at University College Utrecht: "In her award-winning documentary, director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril enjoins its audiences to think more caringly and rigorously about received notions of what it means to be an environmental activist. In step with environmental justice scholars such as Kyle Whyte or scholars such as Arturo Escobar or Rolando Vazquez Melken, Arnaquq-Baril demands that audiences consider how Indigenous Peoples engage their relationship to their environment in ways that sustainably address climate change. Arnaquq-Baril “joins a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit as they campaign to challenge long-established perceptions of seal hunting. Armed with social media and their own sense of humour and justice,” the documentary also asks audiences to reflect on not only who but also how a given community is allowed (or not allowed) to be “angry” or indignant in the public sphere."
The New York Times writes that Angry Inuk is “a vital documentary by the activist Alethea Arnaquq-Baril that advocates for traditional seal-hunting practices” against the mostly benign intentions of animal activists who are seemingly unaware of how their activism is itself inflected by the vexed power structures of our postcolonial political and economic structures. The Globe and Mail deems it an “important documentary […] a dignified response to those who oppose seal hunting but willfully ignore the fact that international bans on seal products severely inhibit the subsistence hunting vital to Arctic communities. Arnaquq-Baril narrates the film with focused, level-headed passion (and occasional wry humour).” Vivian Belik who interviews Arnaquq-Baril for an article in Documentary Culture: POV argues that the film also speaks back to romanticized notions of early docudramas such as Romance of the Far Fur Country (1920) or Nanook of the North (1922).
- Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (Inuk, 2016, 85 min.)
- Spoken languages: Inuktitut, English, French
- Subtitles: English
- Producers: Unikkaat Studios Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with Eye Steel Film
- Watch the film trailer here
Angry Inuk has garnered the following awards: Available Light Film Festival: Winner Audience Choice, Best Canadian Documentary; Docs Barcelona: Winner of the Month Award; Gémeaux Awards: Best Documentary – Society; Hot Doc Canadian International Documentary Festival: Top 20 Audience Favorites; Santa Barbara International Festival: Winner; featured film at TAFFNY 2017. For more information on the film, visit the official website here. Angry Inuk is accessible via NFBONF, Kanopy, JustWatch, Vimeo, and Amazon Prime. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril is an Inuk filmmaker. She is known for producing and directing films about Inuit life and culture. Arnaquq-Baril operates Unikkaat Studios, a production company in Iqaluit, Nunavut and is president of the Ajjiit Nunavut Media Association.
Angry Inuk is available to rent or buy here, accessible here, and can be watched via Netflix USA. Watch the film trailer here.
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NECS Online Lecture Series "Media and Migration" (3/5) | Martina Tazzioli, "Extractive humanitarianism: Participatory detention and asylum seekers' unpaid labour" | 25 March 2021
The NECS is co-hosting its first Online Lecture Series in 2021, on the topic of Media and Migration.
The NECS online lecture series consists in five lectures that will be held by scholars working on the topic of media and migration, scheduled on a monthly basis, starting late January 2021. The Online Lecture Series is open to all and is also intended to involve graduate students and early-career researchers in the scientific conversation about media and migration through the prism of methodology and knowledge production.
A specific focus on methodology will be common to all lectures and will be articulated in connection to fields as varied as ethnic media, diaspora, migrant audiences, digital technologies and border regimes, as well as postcolonialism and gender. Unlike most current analyses of the relationship between media and migration, this Online Lecture Series will propose a shift from media narratives and the politics of representation to the methodological and epistemic issues related to the study of mediated migration.
Confirmed speakers and dates:
- 28 January 2021 - Radha Sarma Hegde (Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University)
- 25 February 2021 - Sandra Ponzanesi (Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University)
- 25 March 2021 - Martina Tazzioli (Lecturer in Politics and Technology, Goldsmith University)
- 29 April 2021 - Kevin Smets (Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- 27 May 2021 - Myria Georgiou (Professor of Media and Communications, London School of Economics)
Lecture 3: 25 March 2021 - Martina Tazzioli
"This presentation interrogates the political economy of labour and the modes of value extraction which are at play in refugee governmentality. It advances the notion of “extractive humanitarianism” to designate the central role played by data extraction and knowledge extraction operations in refugee governmentality. The talk focuses on Cash Assistance Programme for asylum seekers to data extraction activities in refugee camps in Greece, and explores the labour economies at stake there. It proposes to complement migration studies literature on labour and critical security studies works on digital technologies with feminist political theories on unpaid labour. It moves on by analysing multiple data extraction processes which are at stake in refugee humanitarianism. The second part focuses on knowledge extraction operations and on the unpaid labour that asylum seekers are nudged to do in refugee camps and hotspots in the name of their own good. In so doing, it argues, asylum seekers are asked to participate to their own confinement, that is to mechanisms of “participatory detention”. I will conclude by speaking about the invisible labour that humanitarian actors need to do in order to keep digital infrastructures up to date."
The lecture will take place on Zoom, on 25 March 2021, at 18:00 CET. In order to join the Zoom Session, please register here. The Online Lecture will also be streamed live on NECS' Facebook group.
For more information on the lecture and the speaker, please visit this page. For information on the upcoming lectures, see above or visit here. For more information and updates, see here.
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Digital Workshop: Cinema Delle Migrazioni in Italia | 18-19 March 2021
Organized as part of Cinema of Migration in Italy since 1990, Universität Innsbruck
18 - 19 March 2021
The project Cinema of Migration in Italy since 1990 (2018 - 2021) hosts a digital workshop on 18 and 19 March. In the workshop participants of the project discuss their results with international experts.
Confirmed speakers:
- Stella Lange (University of Innsbruck)
- Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University)
- Áine O'Healy (Keynote, University of Loyola Marymount)
- Mario Casale (University of Innsbruck)
- Derek Duncan (University of St. Andrews)
- Antonio Salmeri (University of Innsbruck)
- Veronica Pravadelli (University Roma Tre)
For more information, please visit this page. The full workshop programme can be found here.
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Fanon After Fanon | Wiser PUBLIC POSITIONS Series 2021
Organized by WiSER's PIBLIC POSITIONS
From February to October of 2021, WiSER's PUBLIC POSITIONS series will present ten public thematic dialogues on the new generation of Fanon studies.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the political and the clinical, the close communication between the two, how they impact upon one another and are at times mistaken for each other. Speakers are invited to develop one or more arguments for 20 minutes each. This will be followed by a dialogue led by Professor Achille Mbembe before the session is opened to a broader audience. The series will be presented online from 18.00 to 19.30 (Johannesburg time) and a link will be sent out a week before each session.
The next session takes place on 17 March 2021. This session's speakers are Gavin Arnall (University of Michigan) on "Subterranean Fanon. An Underground Theory of Radical Change" and Robyn Marasco (Hunter College) on "Frantz Fanon: Critique, With Knives".
For more information, see here. A full overview of the sessions can be found here.
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Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday | 21-22-23 April 2021
21-22-23 April, Utrecht University
Convenor: Sandra Ponzanesi
REGISTRATION WILL BE OPENING UP SOON. THE CONFERENCE WILL BE FULLY ONLINE. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND UPDATES CHECK THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE HERE.
Confirmed keynotes:
- Paul Gilroy (University College London)
- Engin Isin (Queen Mary, University of London)
- Nicholas de Genova (University of Houston)
- Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Melbourne)
- Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of being in the world that cuts across national borders, shaping new forms of diasporic affiliations and transnational intimacy. This happens in ways that are different from the ways enabled by the communication technologies of the past. Scholarly attention has intensified around the question of how various new technical affordances of platforms and apps are shaping the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives.
This international conference focuses on the connection between the media and migration from different disciplinary vantage points. Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and personally identifying information, navigating spaces and reshaping the local and the global in the process is but one side of the coin of migrant-related technology use: this Janus-faced development also subjects individual as well as groups to increased datafied migration management, algorithmic control and biometric classification as well as forms of transnational authoritarianism and networked repression.
This conference pays particular attention to the everyday use of digital media for the support of transnational lives, emotional bonds and cosmopolitan affiliations, focusing also on the the role digital media play in shaping local/urban and national diasporic formations. This is because it becomes increasingly important to give everyday digital media usage a central role in investigations of transnational belonging, digital intimacy, diasporic community (re)production, migrant subject formation, long-distance political participation, urban social integration and local/national self-organization.
Therefore we need to examine individual and collective user practices within the wider historical and cultural contexts of media studies, cultural studies and postcolonial cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity, geographies and the everyday. This also creates new challenges for cross-disciplinary dialogues that require an integration of ethnography with digital methods and critical data studies in order to look at the formation of identity and experience, representation, community building, and creating spaces of belongingness.
This conference is part of the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE, Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging: http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/
The conference is organized in collaboration with the DMM section (Diaspora, Migration and the Media) of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education).
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Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis | Special Issue: International Journal of Cultural Studies
Issue editors: Myria Georgiou and Paul Frosh
Submission deadline: 10 March 2021
What is the meaning of the coronavirus pandemic as a global crisis? Or, to unpack this somewhat naïve question: what does such a crisis feel, look like and signify to those living through it? How are its legibility, coherence and significance as a ‘crisis’ constructed and performed across highly variable cultural and social contexts? How does its occurrence maintain, amplify or transform cultural practices, representational repertoires, solidarities and power relations? And how can inquiry into something as vast, multifarious and pervasive as the pandemic generate new theory about the cultural construction of ‘crisis’ in our time - particularly since, at the moment of writing, it is still going on? In short, how might we address both the intensely particular manifestations of Covid-19 in different locations, times and populations, and yet grasp its totality as a global phenomenon? Calling the pandemic a ‘crisis’ draws it firmly into the orbit of cultural studies in three primary ways, which can be summarized through three interconnected questions: how is Covid-19 constructed as a crisis? what it is a crisis of? and through what cultural agencies is it produced and reproduced?
These questions and their elaboration only really begin to set the scene for thinking about Covid-19 as a global crisis. In this special issue we invite substantial contributions (5,000- 7,000 words) that engage with ‘the crisis’ from perspectives connected to cultural studies, broadly speaking, and that take transnational relations and dynamics as their principal frames of reference.
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Towards A Social History of European Integration | Conference
Utrecht University, 18-19 October 2021
Organized by: Liesbeth van de Grift, Brigitte Leucht, Martin Conway and Koen van Zon
Submission deadline: 15 March 2021
This conference aims to offer a bottom-up perspective by looking at the historical development of public contestation, mobilisation, and participation in the history of European integration. It will connect these topics to the question of institutional legitimacy, the legitimacy of the creation of the common market, and the evolving nature of the public sphere. In what ways have ‘ordinary Europeans’ and social groups sought to influence European policies and to what effect? But also how has the prominence of the European institutions changed the nature and focus of social protest? How has the creation of the common market and new policies by EU institutions shaped societies in the member states of the Community? How have the lives of ordinary Europeans changed as a result of European integration?
This conference aims to lay the basis of a new social history of European integration. Our concern is to move beyond a narrative that portrays the EU as a transnational elite or technocratic domain, which only belatedly became politicised in the 1990s. Instead, we wish to embed the history of European integration in the social history of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. Recent historical scholarship has shown how societal actors shaped the integration process and impacted on policy outcomes. Indeed, from its conception, the European Community offered opportunities for organised citizens to influence policy due to its multi-layered character, in an attempt to compensate for the institutions’ often-invoked ‘democratic deficit’. However, study of this phenomenon has too often been focused on the institutions themselves and contributed to a narrative of progressive Europeanisation. In contrast, we wish to throw open the doors, and study European integration as part of the rapidly changing social history of Europe.
This conference invites papers based on new empirical research that contribute to the writing of a social history of European integration. The aim is to work towards a collective volume based on the conference proceedings
Abstracts (max 400 words) and a short CV must be submitted to Liesbeth van de Grift and Koen van Zon at l.vandegrift@uu.nl and k.j.a.vanzon@uu.nl by 15 March 2021. For more information and the full call for papers, see here.
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Postcolonial Italian Cinema | International Conference
Organized by Damiano Garofalo and Luca Peretti
Sapienza Università di Roma, 16-17 September 2021 | University of Warwick, 1 October 2021
Submission deadline: 31 March 2021
Italy’s colonial empire, small and relatively short-lived, extended into parts of East and North Africa, the Balkans and the Mediterranean Sea. A controversial project often wrongly associated solely with the Fascist Regime, it was quickly repressed from public debate after the war, in an effort to carry on and create a new Italy, cleansed from its past mistakes. A new discourse – a particularly successful one – was also crafted: Italians were good colonialists, they built streets and helped underdeveloped communities to become modern. Most of the traces that colonialism left in postwar culture are covered up by this misleading discourse, or they are simply invisible. However, in the 1960s this situation did not prevent, and perhaps even encouraged, the development of a strong internationalist solidarity toward decolonizing movements, which in cinema had its most famous outcome in the film The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966), an Italian-Algerian film seen and discussed by revolutionary and thirdworldist organizations, from the Black Panthers to Palestinian militants.
Several other films of the time, whether fiction films (like I dannati della terra, Orsini 1969, based on Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth) or non-fiction (Notes Towards an African Orestes, Pasolini, 1970) tackled colonial issues, but only as late as 1981 did a rarely seen colossal, Lion of the Desert (Akkad), openly talk about the Italian empire. Traces of past colonialism, Italian or not, can be found in several other films of the past 75 years, from an internationally acclaimed movie like Life is Beautiful (Benigni, 1997) to a domestic box-office hit such as Tolo tolo (Zalone, 2020), and from corporate films shot in former colonies to experimental films that openly criticize colonial practices. In our conference we will discuss Postcolonial Italian Cinema from its multiple points of view. While Italian colonial and empire cinema, thanks to the works of Ruth Ben Ghiat and others, has finally been analysed and discussed, still relatively little has been written on post-war films that dealt with colonialism, with the exception of a few scholars and works (such as those by Leonardo De Franceschi). And most importantly, these different contributions have not been synthesised’ into a coherent discourse. Our conference aims towards a reconsideration of Postcolonial Italian Cinema in film and history.
We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute presentations solely for the Rome part of the conference. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2021. 300-word abstracts should be submitted to postcolonialitaliancinema@gmail.com. For more information and the full call for papers, see here.
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Migrations, Citizenships, Inclusion. Narratives of Plural Italy, between Imaginary and Diversity Politics | International Conference of Film Studies
University of Roma Tre, 6-8 May 2021
Submission deadline: 31 March 2021
The global pandemic crisis triggered by COVID-19, on the threshold of 2020, also had a tremendous impact on creative industries, whose supply chains are kept on track, in Italy as elsewhere, thanks to mostly intermittent workers, with a weak social protection. While claiming an urgent recovery plan for the whole sector, we stand for a widening and broader diversity in the gamut of interested parties. In this way, it would be possible to respond to a global demand for participation, coming from groups that are scarcely present in senior positions and are associated with a strongly limited narrative. XXVI International Conference of Film Studies Migrations, Citizenships, Inclusion aims to meet this demand and return it in terms of analysis and operating proposals. We solicit contributions addressing the specificities of “made in Italy” between film and media, with reference to migration, citizenship and inclusion.
We would like to expand this conversation, in order to: a) include, using a common framework, artistic platforms, and diversity politics, and to b) confront them with modeling audio/visual products and experiences from other countries, in Europe and in the global arena.The double scope of this conference, as an ideal closure of the interdisciplinary project Imaginaries of Global Migration: Identity, Citizenship, Interculturality (Call for Ideas 2019-21), is to explore the order of narratives in film and media on migrations, citizenship and transculturality, and the space of viability for talents with a migrant background in Italian creative industries.
Submissions can be written in either English or Italian. Submissions can be sent to romatreconf2021@uniroma3.it. For more information and the full call for papers, see here. |
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Cosmopolitan Aspirations in English-Speaking Cinema and Television | 26th Annual SERCIA Conference
Universidad de Zaragoza, 8-10 September 2021
Submission deadline: 9 April 2021
It has become almost mandatory to start any piece on cosmopolitanism with a reference to Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BC) and his famous claim “I am a citizen of the world”. Alluring as the phrase may sound to our 21st century ears, when uttered by Diogenes, it was an invitation to be a social outsider: the allegiance to humanity as a whole implied becoming an exile from the comforts of one’s place of birth and social group (Nussbaum 1994). Two thousand years later, Immanuel Kant considered that the achievement of a cosmopolitan order was a must “if the human race was not to consume itself in wars between nations and if the power of nation-states was not to overwhelm the freedom of individual” (Fine and Cohen 2002). Kant’s ideals about a cosmopolitan world order, cosmopolitan law and cosmopolitan hospitality became the foundation on which moral cosmopolitanism, understood as a philosophical and political project aimed at the creation of cosmopolitan political institutions and the development of a cosmopolitan civil society, started to be theorised. This cosmopolitan tradition became especially appealing in the 1990s, a decade that witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid, among other epochal changes, as well as the widespread use of the Internet and the emergence of the so-called network society. Cosmopolitanism became then a framework (or a “methodology” in Ulrich Beck’s words) to try to understand and deal with some of the challenges of globalization: the increased mobilities of people and goods, the proliferation of global risks, the redefinition of borders and the proliferation of global media and virtual communities, among others (Beck 2000).
This conference will explore the ways in which cosmopolitan aspirations (and their enemies” in Ulrich Beck’s words) have made their way into English-speaking cinema and television across different time periods, nations, genres and media.
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Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Discourses, Policies and Practices in Times of Crisis | Media and Communication
Media and Communication, Volume 10, Issue 2
Edited by: Vasiliki Tsagkroni, Amanda Alencar and Dimitris Skleparis
Submission deadline: 1-15 June 2021
Discourses of fear and war-like metaphors around the current coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic have paved the way for the introduction of unprecedented mobility restrictions at the local, national, and global level. During times of crisis, the media are key in contributing to the legitimation of measures and in providing communities access to critical information. Against this background, when it comes to displaced persons, it is important to highlight barriers related to digital accessibility and literacies, as well as associated risks of technology use (e.g., misinformation, privacy issues, and surveillance). These barriers might exacerbate their vulnerabilities and existing condition, as well as render them invisible as a community. They might also transform and challenge the communication and relations with their transnational families.
This call for papers invites reflective contributions that bring together digital infrastructures and media through the spectre of migration during the Covid-19 crisis. The connection of media and migration provides a critical lens to think through themes of borders, migrants, integration, governance, and representation associated with this pandemic crisis.
Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal's instructions for authors and submit their abstracts (maximum of 250 words, with a tentative title) through the abstracts system (here). For more information and the full call for papers, see here.
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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
Ato Quayson
Published by Cambridge University Press, February 2021
 This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works – Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear – to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo (taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book from a leading critic in literary studies.
For more information, see here.
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Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics: Feminist and Queer Interventions
Edited by C.L. Quinan and Kahtrin Thiele
Published by Routledge, March 2021
The concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics have increasingly gained scholarly attention, particularly in light of today’s urgent and troubling issues that mark some lives as more – or less – worthy than others, including the migration crisis, rise of populism on a global scale, homonationalist practices, and state-sanctioned targeting of gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic ‘others’. This book aims to nuance this conversation by emphasising feminist and queer investments and interventions and by adding the analytical lens of cosmopolitics to ongoing debates around life/living and death/dying in the current political climate. In this way, we move forward toward envisioning feminist and queer futures that rethink categories such as ‘human’ and ‘subjectivity’ based on classical modern premises.
Informed by feminist/queer studies, postcolonial theory, cultural analysis, and critical posthumanism, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics engages with longstanding questions of biopolitics and necropolitics in an era of neoliberalism and late capitalism, but does so by urging for a more inclusive (and less violent) cosmopolitical framework. Taking account of these global dynamics that are shaped by asymmetrical power relations, this fruitful posthuman(ist) and post-/decolonial approach allows for visions of transformation of the matrix of in-/exclusion into feminist/queer futures that work towards planetary social justice.
This book is a significant new contribution to feminist and queer philosophy and politics, and will be of interest to academics, researchers, and advanced students of gender studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, philosophy, politics, and law.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies.
For more information, see here.
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The Digital Black Atlantic
Edited by Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs
Published by University of Minnesota Press, February 2021
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies, offering critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production.
The Digital Black Atlantic spans the African diaspora’s range—from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbean—while its essayists span academic fields—from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies. This transnational and interdisciplinary breadth is complemented by essays that focus on specific sites and digital humanities projects throughout the Black Atlantic. Covering key debates, The Digital Black Atlantic asks theoretical and practical questions about the ways that researchers and teachers of the African diaspora negotiate digital methods to explore a broad range of cultural forms including social media, open access libraries, digital music production, and video games. The volume further highlights contributions of African diaspora studies to digital humanities, such as politics and representation, power and authorship, the ephemerality of memory, and the vestiges of colonialist ideologies.
Grounded in contemporary theory and praxis, The Digital Black Atlantic puts the digital humanities into conversation with African diaspora studies in crucial ways that advance both.
For more information, see here.
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From Marx to Marxism: Eurocentrism, Resistance, Postcolonial Criticism
Edited by Kerstin Knopf and Detlev Quintern
Published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, december 2020
 In our 21st century, the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are still widely taught, hotly debated, and adapted to different political and sociological contexts and theories. Today the "spectre of communism" haunts not only Europe, as assumed by the authors of the Manifest of the Communist Party in 1848, but the world as a whole. After Marxism achieved statehood on the ruins of the Tsarist Empire as the consequence of the Russian Revolution in October 1917, revolutionary independence movements in Asia, Africa, and the Americas introduced new and varied readings of the socialist classics in the 20th century. This collection of articles, by contributors from across the globe, discusses Marxism based on Marx's and Engels's ideas and oeuvre from transnational perspectives that connect Germany and Europe for example with Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Russia, and Turkey. With a critical postcolonial approach, the pluri-versal debates look at the heritage of Karl Marx (and Friedrich Engels) in the context of histories of resistance, analytical thought, theory building, a latent Euro-centric outlook, and the 'discursive monument' Marxism.
For more information, see here.
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The Global Compacts, Mixed Migration and the Transformation of Protection | Interventions, Volume 23, Issue 2 (2021)
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2 (2021)
Published online December 2020
Contributions include:
 Christina Oelgemöller. "Introduction: The Global Compacts, Mixed Migration and the Transformation of Protection." (pp. 183-190)- Jane McAdam and Tamara Wood. "The Concept of 'International Protection' in the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration." (pp. 191-206)
- Madeline Garlick and Claire Inder. "Protection of refugees and migrants in the era of the global compacts: Ensuring support and avoiding gaps." (pp. 207-226)
- François Boucher and Johanna Gördemann. "The European Union and the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration: A Philosophical Critique." (pp. 227-249)
- Christina Oelgemöller. "Mixed Migration and the vagaries of doctrine formation since 2015." (pp. 250-272)
- Annick Pijnenburg and Conny Rijken. "Moving beyond refugees and migrants: reconceptualising the rights of people on the move." (pp. 272-293)
- Leonie Ansems de Vries and Katharine T. Weatherhead. "Politics of Knowledge Production in the Global Compact for Migration." (pp. 294-312)
- Rodolfo Ribeiro C. Marques. "The Right to Access Consular Assistance and Protection and its Relevance to the Architecture of a Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration." (pp. 313-325)
- Nicholas Maple, Susan Reardon-Smith and Richard Black. "Immobility and the containment of solutions: Reflections on the Global Compacts, Mixed Migration and the Transformation of Protection." (pp. 326-347)
For more information and to access the articles, see here.
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