ABSTRACT
Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice.
While postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately. This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition - historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities, and challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist scholarship and activism.
The contributions address the emergence of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of bodies and capital in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era in currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration, diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity, feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|10 pages
Introduction
part I|79 pages
Intersections
chapter Chapter 2|15 pages
Locating postsocialist precarity in global coloniality
chapter Chapter 3|11 pages
A conversation on imperial legacies and postsocialist contexts
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
Bridging postcoloniality, postsocialism, and “race” in the age of Brexit
chapter Chapter 5|16 pages
Queering "Postsocialist Coloniality"
chapter Chapter 6|21 pages
Circassian trajectories between post-Soviet neocolonialism, indigeneity, and diasporic dispersions
part II|80 pages
Opacities
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
Opacity as a feminist strategy
chapter Chapter 8|12 pages
Anti-colonial struggles, postcolonial subversions
chapter Chapter 9|17 pages
Uneventful feminist protest in post-Maidan Ukraine
chapter Chapter 11|16 pages
Speaking against the void
part III|88 pages
Challenges