[csaa-forum] Postcolonial Politics -Call for Papers

[Vijay Devadas]

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 18 SEPTEMBER 2006


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, Australia

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

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

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

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

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

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

We invite abstracts of 250-300 words to be sent to Dr Vijay Devadas  
(vijay.devadas at stonebow.otago.ac.nz) by 18 September 2006.

Registration details and conference info will be available after 18  
September on the Postcolonial Studies Research Network website http:// 
www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/networks/postcolonial/index.html
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