[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Actually Existing Colonialisms (7/15/06; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

�Actually Existing Colonialisms� � Special Issue, Journal of
Contemporary Thought (Baroda, India).
Guest Editor, Gaurav Desai, Tulane University.

Papers are invited on the topic of �Actually Existing Colonialisms� for
a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Thought, the première
journal of literary and cultural theory published in Baroda, India.

While much of contemporary social theory focuses on postcolonial
temporality, there are many locations � geographical as well as
political � that are still best understood today as continuous with the
era of high colonialism. What might sovereignty and independence mean in
these locations in an era of �globalization?� How do these struggles
reflect and refract earlier modes of anti-colonial resistance? What role
does literature and culture play in the formulation of such struggles?
What might the re-emergence of �Empire� signify in the so called
�postcolonial� context?

Papers might address both local politics and its representational claims
in areas as diverse as Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Palestine, Tibet, Iraq and
in Native American and other indigenous contexts. They might also engage
with theorists of empire such as Niall Ferguson, Hardt and Negri,
Samuel Huntington, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy and Michael Ignatieff.

Completed papers by email to gaurav@tulane.edu by July 15th 2006.

Inquiries welcome at any time.

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