ABSTRACT
Drawing on a rich lineage of anti-discriminatory scholarship, art, and activism, Locating African European Studies engages with contemporary and historical African European formations, positionalities, politics, and cultural productions in Europe.
Locating African European Studies reflects on the meanings, objectives, and contours of this field. Twenty-six activists, academics, and artists cover a wide range of topics, engaging with processes of affiliation, discrimination, and resistance. They negotiate the methodological foundations of the field, explore different meanings and politics of ‘African’ and ‘European’, and investigate African European representations in literature, film, photography, art, and other media. In three thematic sections, the book focusses on:
- African European social and historical formations
- African European cultural production
- Decolonial academic practice
Locating African European Studies features innovative transdisciplinary research, and will be of interest to students and scholars of various fields, including Black Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Studies, African Studies, History, and Social Sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|1 pages
African European social and historical formations
chapter 1|14 pages
“We have to act. That is what forms collectivity”
chapter 3|17 pages
From bokoe bullying to Afrobeats
chapter 4|13 pages
Involving diaspora communities through action research
chapter 9|12 pages
Forgotten histories
part II|1 pages
African European cultural production
chapter 10|12 pages
Opening homes, opening worlds
chapter 11|10 pages
Afropolitanism and mobility
chapter 12|14 pages
Black British queer intersectionality
chapter 13|20 pages
Voices from the Black diaspora in Spain
chapter 14|16 pages
Adapting contested histories
chapter 15|12 pages
Returning the colonial gaze
part III|1 pages
Decolonial academic practice