[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Postcolonial Politics Symposium (9/8/06; 11/27/06-11/29/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Postcolonial Politics - A Symposium

November 27 - 29, 2006
Organised by the Postcolonial Studies Research Network
University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ


Keynote Speakers

Dr Suvendrini Perera	
Faculty of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin University of Technology

Dr Anthony Burke	
School of Politics and International Relations, U of New South Wales

Dr Mark Devenney	
Historical & Critical Studies, Brighton University, U.K.


Call for Papers

What is a postcolonial politics? How might such a politics be
constituted? What concerns animate contemporary postcolonial politics?
Where are the spaces of politics? Where are the stakes? What are the
terms of political contestation and transformation? How are the forms
and concerns of postcolonial politics shifting?

Such questions are critical in the face of arguments that postcolonial
criticism has become absorbed into institutions of power, as well as
suggestions that the abstraction of the postcolonial as a methodology,
and its appropriation for First World concerns, mean that the
postcolonial has no political currency.























































Against this are arguments affirming the=20
productive possibilities of articulating a=20
politics of liberation through postcolonial=20
critique. Questions about a postcolonial politics=20
also emerge as crucial at a time when the rights=20
of a variety of peoples (asylum-seekers, refuges,=20
boat-people, exiles, diasporas, indigenous=20
communities, migrants) animate the genealogy of=20
our present.

We invite a wide range of scholars working out of=20
different contexts, disciplines and interests to=20
either reinterpret/revisit any of the major=20
debates in these fields, or ask new questions=20
that seem important. Postgraduate scholars and=20
early career researchers are particularly=20
encouraged to contribute. We intend to publish a=20
selection of papers from the symposium.

Papers from across the disciplines are invited to=20
address any aspect of Postcolonial Politics,=20
including:

=85 Citizenship, Democracy
=85 Capital, Labour, and Bio-politics
=85 Bioethics, Ecocriticism, Politics of disaster
=85 Migration, Immigration, Exile
=85 Region/ Religion/Politics and Culture
=85 Empire, Globalisation, Terrorism, Aliens
=85 Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Class, Indigeneity
=85 Media, Culture, Arts, Literature
=85 Food, Water, Epidemics and/or Pandemics
=85 Sovereignty, Freedom, Justice
=85 Opposition, Resistance, Complicity
=85 Politics of Postcolonial Theory


We invite abstracts of 250-300 words to be sent=20
to Dr Vijay Devadas=20
(vijay.devadas at stonebow.otago.ac.nz) by 8=20
September 2006.

-- 
Dr Chris Prentice
Department of English
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand

Phone: 64 3 479-8920
=46ax: 64 3 479-8558
email: chris.prentice at stonebow.otago.ac.nz

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