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The book presents the case for the making of a new political
imagination by offering a critique of existing political
institutions, philosophy and practices that are unable to provide
the thinking, means and leadership to deal with the complexity and
crises of specific locales and the world at large. The authors make
clear that there is a fundamental disjuncture between the
complexity of the combined critical conditions that are now putting
life on Earth at risk, and the divisions and theories of knowledge
that are dominantly and instrumentally trying to understand the
situation. In response, this work makes the case for the need for a
new political imagination that rejects the sufficiency of existing
political ideologies (including democracy) being the end point of
politics. The book tackles the political underpinnings of social
and economic life in a world still embedded in the inequities of
the afterlife of colonialism and state socialism. Thereafter it
engages narratives of change, rethinks imagination and critical
practices, to finally present a relationally connected way to move
forward. This trans-disciplinary volume is directed at those
working in political philosophy and epistemology, critical global
and security studies, decoloniality and postcolonial studies,
design, critical anthropology and the post humanities. It is
accessible to both academic audiences and activists and
practitioners.
This book uses an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to
reflect on the relational complexity of unsettlement as a
predominant sensibility of the present epoque. The book tackles
interrelated aspects of unsettlement including temporality, the
disconcerting effects of the Anthropocene, the biomedical facets of
unsettlement and the post-pandemic futures. It uses a chimeric
approach combining essayistic and speculative fiction writing
methods, negotiating rational, affective and imaginative ways of
inquiry, and showing rather than merely explaining. The book poses
questions, but gives no ready-made answers, and invites to think
together on the unsettlement as a negatively global human condition
that can be collectively made into a generative move of resurgence
and refuturing. Contributing to critical reflections on the main
features and sensibilities of the current epoque, the book will be
of interest to scholars and undergraduate and graduate students, as
well as the general public, interested in critical global and
future perspectives, in decolonial research, gender studies and
posthumanities.
Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists
from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical
specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores
the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial
and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While
postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in
feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately.
This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how
postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition -
historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and
correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In
the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities, and
challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under
pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist
scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence
of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of
bodies and capital in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era in
currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They
engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration,
diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new
analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer
postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity,
feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of
interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students
of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars.
Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists
from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical
specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores
the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial
and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While
postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in
feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately.
This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how
postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition -
historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and
correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In
the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities, and
challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under
pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist
scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence
of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of
bodies and capital in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era in
currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They
engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration,
diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new
analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer
postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity,
feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of
interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students
of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars.
The book presents the case for the making of a new political
imagination by offering a critique of existing political
institutions, philosophy and practices that are unable to provide
the thinking, means and leadership to deal with the complexity and
crises of specific locales and the world at large. The authors make
clear that there is a fundamental disjuncture between the
complexity of the combined critical conditions that are now putting
life on Earth at risk, and the divisions and theories of knowledge
that are dominantly and instrumentally trying to understand the
situation. In response, this work makes the case for the need for a
new political imagination that rejects the sufficiency of existing
political ideologies (including democracy) being the end point of
politics. The book tackles the political underpinnings of social
and economic life in a world still embedded in the inequities of
the afterlife of colonialism and state socialism. Thereafter it
engages narratives of change, rethinks imagination and critical
practices, to finally present a relationally connected way to move
forward. This trans-disciplinary volume is directed at those
working in political philosophy and epistemology, critical global
and security studies, decoloniality and postcolonial studies,
design, critical anthropology and the post humanities. It is
accessible to both academic audiences and activists and
practitioners.
This book tackles the intersections of postcolonial and
postsocialist imaginaries and sensibilities focusing on the ways
they are reflected in contemporary art, fiction, theater and
cinema. After the defeat of the Socialist modernity the
postsocialist space and its people have found themselves in the
void. Many elements of the former Second world experience, echo the
postcolonial situations, including subalternization, epistemic
racism, mimicry, unhomedness and transit, the revival of ethnic
nationalisms and neo-imperial narratives, neo-Orientalist and
mutant Eurocentric tendencies, indirect forms of resistance and
life-asserting modes of re-existence. Yet there are also
untranslatable differences between the postcolonial and the
postsocialist human conditions. The monograph focuses on the
aesthetic principles and mechanisms of sublime, the
postsocialist/postcolonial decolonization of museums, the
perception and representation of space and time through the
tempolocalities of post-dependence, the anatomy of
characters-tricksters with shifting multiple identities, the memory
politics of the post-traumatic conditions and ways of their
overcoming.
In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces
how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition.
Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the
core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the
post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out
of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with
activist art. She interviews artists, art collectives, and writers
such as Estonian artist Liina Siib, Uzbek artist Vyacheslav
Akhunov, and Azerbaijani writer Afanassy Mamedov who frame the
post-Soviet condition through the experience and expression of
community, space, temporality, gender, and negotiating the demands
of the state and the market. In foregrounding the unfolding
aesthesis and activism in the post-Soviet space, Tlostanova
emphasizes the important role that decolonial art plays in
providing the foundation upon which to build new modes of thought
and a decolonial future.
This book tackles the intersections of postcolonial and
postsocialist imaginaries and sensibilities focusing on the ways
they are reflected in contemporary art, fiction, theater and
cinema. After the defeat of the Socialist modernity the
postsocialist space and its people have found themselves in the
void. Many elements of the former Second world experience, echo the
postcolonial situations, including subalternization, epistemic
racism, mimicry, unhomedness and transit, the revival of ethnic
nationalisms and neo-imperial narratives, neo-Orientalist and
mutant Eurocentric tendencies, indirect forms of resistance and
life-asserting modes of re-existence. Yet there are also
untranslatable differences between the postcolonial and the
postsocialist human conditions. The monograph focuses on the
aesthetic principles and mechanisms of sublime, the
postsocialist/postcolonial decolonization of museums, the
perception and representation of space and time through the
tempolocalities of post-dependence, the anatomy of
characters-tricksters with shifting multiple identities, the memory
politics of the post-traumatic conditions and ways of their
overcoming.
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Hayv Kahraman (Hardcover)
Hayv Kahraman; Edited by Rebecca McGrew; Text written by Rebecca McGrew, Madina Tlostanova, Hayv Kahraman; Contributions by …
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