Online Book Launch: Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe
9 May 2023, 17.00-19.00
Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe
Edited by Bolette B. Blaagaard, Sabrina Marchetti, Sandra Ponzanesi and Shaul Bassi
Published by Edizioni Ca' Foscari/Venice University Press, 2023
Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe presents
a collection of sixteen chapters that explore the themes of how
migrants, refugees and citizens express and share their political and
social causes and experiences through art and media. These expressions,
which we term ‘citizen media’, arguably become a platform for
postcolonial intellectuals as the studies pursued in this volume
investigate the different ways in which previously excluded social
groups regain public voice. The volume strives to understand the
different articulations of migrants’, refugees’, and citizens’ struggle
against increasingly harsh European politics that allow them to achieve
and empower political subjectivity in a mediated and creative space. In
this way, the contributions in this volume present case studies of
citizen media in the form of ‘activistic art’ or ‘artivism’ (Trandafoiu,
Ruffini, Cazzato & Taronna, Koobak & Tali, Negrón-Muntaner),
activism through different kinds of technological media (Chouliaraki and
Al-Ghazzi, Jedlowski), such as documentaries and film (Denić),
podcasts, music and soundscapes (Romeo and Fabbri, Western, Lazzari,
Huggan), and activisms through writings from journalism to fiction
(Longhi, Concilio, Festa, De Capitani). The volume argues that citizen
media go hand in hand with postcolonial critique because of their shared
focus on the deconstruction and decolonisation of Western logics and
narratives. Moreover, both question the concept of citizen and of
citizenship as they relate to the nation-state and explores the power of
media as a tool for participation as well as an instrument of political
strength. The book forwards postcolonial artivism and citizen media as a
critical framework to understand the refugee and migrant situations in
contemporary Europe.
Speakers:
- Bolette B. Blaagaard
- Sabrina Marchetti
- Sandra Ponzanesi
- Shaul Bassi
The book launch will feature contributions by:
- Omar Al-Ghazzi
- Carmen Concilio
- Nadia Denic
- Graham Huggan
- Gabriele Lazzari
- Alessandro Jedlowski
- Frances Négron-Muntaner
- Caterina Romeo
- Ruxandra Trandafoiu
- Tom Western
For the chapter overview and to download the PDF see Here
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