Most people in the world have heralded the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the USA as a monumental event. They believe his election represents a watershed moment and a definitive shift in race relations. In contrast, I argue that his election is the product of 40 years of racial transition that have sedimented a new racial regime…
Alessandro Portelli teaches American literature at Sapienza University in Rome (where there is an active anomalous wave student movement for education). He has through out his publications and labour of memory work emphasised remembering as an event, active listening, and has taken seriously creative error, invention, myth, even lies – especially when they are widespread.
One of my teachers in Delhi, Udaya Kumar, used to explain the concept of the Freudian unconscious with an image. He used to draw a horizontal white line on the blackboard which was an analogue for the ground. Then making a slight gash in the line, he talked of a burial…
This book writes back the presence of South Asian youth into a rapidly expanding and exuberant music scene; and celebrates this as a dynamic expression of the experience of diaspora with an urgent political consciousness.
After the explosion of Zach Synder’s 300 into popular debate, it’s hard to resist a comparison to another recent war-movie, one that equally gains its power from the fantasy projections of its director, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.
A Transatlantic Dialogue with David Goldberg (Humanities Research Institute, University of California) and Paul Gilroy (Sociology, London School of Economics) – 29th June 2007
Western reflexive thinking about knowledge, culture and science often tends to (somehow) reproduce the “one epistemological size fits all” standpoint of Eurocentrism, to exclude alternative post-colonial theorizations and to ignore the irreducibility of the “ethical dimension”.
The “reinvention” of this…
A dialogue with Ettiene Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra et al – hosted by Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP), Dept of Sociology, Goldsmiths.
Memory, history and location all come together in a series of photographs, abstract watercolours and a video installation collectively titled Lost Pavilion by the British artist Said Adrus
At the centre of this exhibition is a forgotten…
The interior and exterior space of the writer is blown up in Giancarlo Neri’s 30ft table and chair made from six tons of steel, plated with wood and painted brown.[1] Placed deliberately in Hampstead Heath (London, UK) in 2005,…
Transnational Feminism – Terrorism: A round-table discussion between Scholars from the USA and Europe
Organised by Cultural Theory Institute and Sociology, University of Manchester, 23rd March 2006
Speakers: Gargi Bhattacharya (University of Birmingham, President (elect) AUT); Inderpal Grewal (University of California at Irvine); Ronit Lentin (Sociology, Trinity college, Dublin); Jasbir Kaur Puar (Gender Studies/Geography, Rutgers University)
Emphasizing the haunting remnants of emptied out architecture and unused spaces, Coventry Ritz listens to the days when social scenes were produced in the British post-war period by South Asian workers who bought and programmed cinemas. Voices of people remembering…
Professor Stuart Hall presented a discussion about globalization at the Centre for Cultural Studies (CSS, Goldsmiths, London University) event Cartographies of Power (1 Oct 2003).
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