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Postcolonial, Decolonial, Post-imperial, De-imperial

Deadline : 17 November 2023

Conference :  15-17 May, 2024.  

Organizers : research group, “REVENANT-Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation” (ERC #101002908),  https://revenant.uniri.hr.

(Details for submission: see below or call for paper)

Despite dating back at least half a century, postcolonial studies and the concept of postcolonialism evince no signs of obsolescence in middle age. The theoretical and political questions that postcolonial critique first posed, related to the racialized formations of knowledge-power that sustained colonial regimes and their ongoing effects, have only increased in urgency. Precursors such as Frantz Fanon’s understanding of colonialism as a mode of psychological-subjective subjugation, signature concepts such as Edward Said’s Orientalism and Gayatri Spivak’s subalternity, and more recent coinages such as Achille Mbembe’s postcolony remain both staples of syllabi and inspirations for insurgent subjects.
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