Gaia Giuliani
Italian Critical Whiteness Studies Pioneer // Anti-racist Feminist Activist and Scholar // CES Researcher // InteRGRace Co-founder // Associate Professor in Political Philosophy (ASN 2017, Italy) // Transnational De-constructor of Post-colonial (visual) Archives of Monstrosity.
I am currently a permanent researcher at the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), University of Coimbra (2015-2021), Associate professor in Political philosophy (ASN 2017), Principal investigator of the FCT project “(De)OTHERING - Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and 'internal Others' in Portuguese and European mediascapes” and member of the Management Committee of the COST Action CA19129 - Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice (2020-2024).
I am also a co-founder of InteRGRace – Interdisciplinary Research Group on Race and Racisms, member of the International Advisory Board of the international journal "Studi Culturali" (Cultural Studies journal) and "Socioscapes" and member of the Editorial Board of international journal "From the European South".
My research interests focus on visual constructions of race and whiteness from an intersectional viewpoint in British and Italian nation-building processes and colonial experiences, the US, the Pacific, and postcolonial Europe.
My methodology crosses Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural and Gender Studies. My current research work at CES aims to develop a critical discourse analysis of texts coding 'fears of disasters and crisis' and their cultural, social, and political impact on European self-representations in terms of racial formations and 'white fantasies'.
I obtained my PhD in History of political Thought at the University of Torino (2005) and received then 3 postdoctoral fellowships, respectively from the University of Bologna (2007-2009), the University of Technology Sydney (2009-2010) funded by the Australian Government under the scheme Endeavour Research Fellowship, and the Center for Social Studies (CES) (2015-2019), funded by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology [FCT]. After teaching in Italy and the UK (2010-2015), since 2016 I lecture regularly at CES PhD courses. From 2018-2019 I co-coordinates the course "Issues on Sociology of Politics and Democracy" (MA in Sociology) at the Faculty of Economics (FEUC) of the University of Coimbra.
Supervisors: PhD Supervisor of Daniela Ayoub/Diana Viveiros/Lucia Arruda (PhD in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies since 2020) and co-supervisor of Luisa de Pinho Valle (PhD in Democracy in the 21st Century", since 2018)
Address: Centro de Estudos Sociais - CES
University of Coimbra
Colégio de S. Jerónimo
Largo D. Dinis
Apartado 3087
3000-995 Coimbra
I am currently a permanent researcher at the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), University of Coimbra (2015-2021), Associate professor in Political philosophy (ASN 2017), Principal investigator of the FCT project “(De)OTHERING - Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and 'internal Others' in Portuguese and European mediascapes” and member of the Management Committee of the COST Action CA19129 - Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice (2020-2024).
I am also a co-founder of InteRGRace – Interdisciplinary Research Group on Race and Racisms, member of the International Advisory Board of the international journal "Studi Culturali" (Cultural Studies journal) and "Socioscapes" and member of the Editorial Board of international journal "From the European South".
My research interests focus on visual constructions of race and whiteness from an intersectional viewpoint in British and Italian nation-building processes and colonial experiences, the US, the Pacific, and postcolonial Europe.
My methodology crosses Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural and Gender Studies. My current research work at CES aims to develop a critical discourse analysis of texts coding 'fears of disasters and crisis' and their cultural, social, and political impact on European self-representations in terms of racial formations and 'white fantasies'.
I obtained my PhD in History of political Thought at the University of Torino (2005) and received then 3 postdoctoral fellowships, respectively from the University of Bologna (2007-2009), the University of Technology Sydney (2009-2010) funded by the Australian Government under the scheme Endeavour Research Fellowship, and the Center for Social Studies (CES) (2015-2019), funded by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology [FCT]. After teaching in Italy and the UK (2010-2015), since 2016 I lecture regularly at CES PhD courses. From 2018-2019 I co-coordinates the course "Issues on Sociology of Politics and Democracy" (MA in Sociology) at the Faculty of Economics (FEUC) of the University of Coimbra.
Supervisors: PhD Supervisor of Daniela Ayoub/Diana Viveiros/Lucia Arruda (PhD in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies since 2020) and co-supervisor of Luisa de Pinho Valle (PhD in Democracy in the 21st Century", since 2018)
Address: Centro de Estudos Sociais - CES
University of Coimbra
Colégio de S. Jerónimo
Largo D. Dinis
Apartado 3087
3000-995 Coimbra
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Intersectionality as an episteme, an epistemology, and a method, is essential to the black feminist project of fracturing Universalism within a feminist debate that is totally dominated by US white feminists. Thus, it is necessary to make the peculiarity of black women’s condition emerge. Within the deconstructive project of postmodern feminism, intersectionality becomes necessary to enable feminist scholars and activists to investigate constructions of normative white heteropatriarchy. In order to understand Italy as a fast-changing context and, more importantly, in order to set a political agenda which both contests the status quo and proposes an emancipatory project that goes beyond the nation state and its borders, scholars and critics must work within the framework of intersectionality.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/wng5-s743
Books by Gaia Giuliani
This book uses established icons of popular visual culture in sci-fi, doomsday and horror films and TV series, as well as in images reproduced by the news media to help trace the genealogy of modern fears to ontologies and logics of the Anthropocene. By logics of the Anthropocene, the book refers to a set of principles based on ontologies of exploitation, extermination and natural resource exhaustion processes determining who is worthy of benefiting from value extraction and being saved from the catastrophe and who is expendable. Fears for the loss of isolation from the unworthy and the expendable are investigated here as originating anxieties against migrants’ invasions, terrorist attacks and planetary catastrophes, in a thread that weaves together re-emerging ‘past nightmares’ and future visions.
This book will be of great interest to students and academics of the Environmental Humanities, Human and Cultural Geography, Political Philosophy, Psychosocial Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Gender Studies and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Cinema Studies and Visual Studies.
Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Italian studies, political philosophy, sociology, history, visual and cultural studies, race and whiteness studies and gender studies, will find this book of interest.
In quella che è un’oscillazione continua tra reale e fantastico, questo lavoro ricostruisce la memoria del futuro, ossia la memoria di ciò che nel passato più recente abbiamo immaginato avvenisse nel futuro, testimoniando un riemergere violento della figura del mostruoso, che accompagna l’Occidente e il suo incontro con l’Altro/a sin dall’alba della Modernità.
Zombi, alieni e mutanti divengono allora allegorie del nostro presente e ci aiutano ad indagare gli orizzonti in cui vengono ripensate oggi la comunità umana, i legami affettivi, i valori alla base della convivenza.
I saggi qui raccolti muovono tutti dall’idea che la razza c’è anche quando ‘non si vede’ o non viene esplicitamente menzionata e che in Italia un certo immaginario visivo svela la persistenza di quel materiale simbolico con cui oggi viene costruito il consenso a pratiche, discorsi e istituzioni razziste. L’obiettivo del volume è quello di fornire uno strumento interpretativo fondamentale per la comprensione di ciò che resta del passato e come si trasforma nel presente il razzismo in Italia.
Pur diversi per collocazione disciplinare e forma narrativa, i contributi qui raccolti sono tuttavia accomunati da un esplicito posizionamento autoriflessivo, sullo sfondo delle grandi contraddizioni e trasformazioni del nostro tempo. Ne risulta una polifonia di voci che restituisce una visione originale e articolata degli affetti, del desiderio e dei modelli di genere e sessualità vissuti in un contesto di precarietà, non solo economica e lavorativa ma fondamentalmente esistenziale.
Riflessioni e ricerche di un lavoro corale che non si limita a fotografare e analizzare l'esistente, ma indica le strategie necessarie per mettere in discussione l'ordine delle cose, evocando una dimensione del pensare e dell'agire che da individuale diventa collettiva, assumendo così rilevanza sociale e politica.
Journal Articles by Gaia Giuliani
An Ugly Word is an important and timely work: it takes a frightening picture of our times, using interviews and a opportune sociological and critical race theory-based analysis of them to reveal how race thinking imbues perceptions, ideas, and conceptions of racialized Otherness in the mind of young white Italians. It fills a gap in flourishing research on Italian racism that in the last ten years has focused mostly on racist and colonial archives and how they are reproduced in Italian culture, society, and politics. My contribution to the debate opened by the journal on the book focuses on the pervasiveness of race in Italy, on my critique of categorization circulating within the international debate on race, and concludes advocating the importance of maintaining the concept of race and exploring its visual reproduction in Italian and European critical literature, to see racism and fight against it.
"Ricerche per Lidia: il femminismo nelle arti visive, nel corpo, nelle migrazioni, nella fantascienza, nel presente e futuro interspecie - volume 1"
Intersectionality as an episteme, an epistemology, and a method, is essential to the black feminist project of fracturing Universalism within a feminist debate that is totally dominated by US white feminists. Thus, it is necessary to make the peculiarity of black women’s condition emerge. Within the deconstructive project of postmodern feminism, intersectionality becomes necessary to enable feminist scholars and activists to investigate constructions of normative white heteropatriarchy. In order to understand Italy as a fast-changing context and, more importantly, in order to set a political agenda which both contests the status quo and proposes an emancipatory project that goes beyond the nation state and its borders, scholars and critics must work within the framework of intersectionality.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/wng5-s743
This book uses established icons of popular visual culture in sci-fi, doomsday and horror films and TV series, as well as in images reproduced by the news media to help trace the genealogy of modern fears to ontologies and logics of the Anthropocene. By logics of the Anthropocene, the book refers to a set of principles based on ontologies of exploitation, extermination and natural resource exhaustion processes determining who is worthy of benefiting from value extraction and being saved from the catastrophe and who is expendable. Fears for the loss of isolation from the unworthy and the expendable are investigated here as originating anxieties against migrants’ invasions, terrorist attacks and planetary catastrophes, in a thread that weaves together re-emerging ‘past nightmares’ and future visions.
This book will be of great interest to students and academics of the Environmental Humanities, Human and Cultural Geography, Political Philosophy, Psychosocial Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Gender Studies and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Cinema Studies and Visual Studies.
Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Italian studies, political philosophy, sociology, history, visual and cultural studies, race and whiteness studies and gender studies, will find this book of interest.
In quella che è un’oscillazione continua tra reale e fantastico, questo lavoro ricostruisce la memoria del futuro, ossia la memoria di ciò che nel passato più recente abbiamo immaginato avvenisse nel futuro, testimoniando un riemergere violento della figura del mostruoso, che accompagna l’Occidente e il suo incontro con l’Altro/a sin dall’alba della Modernità.
Zombi, alieni e mutanti divengono allora allegorie del nostro presente e ci aiutano ad indagare gli orizzonti in cui vengono ripensate oggi la comunità umana, i legami affettivi, i valori alla base della convivenza.
I saggi qui raccolti muovono tutti dall’idea che la razza c’è anche quando ‘non si vede’ o non viene esplicitamente menzionata e che in Italia un certo immaginario visivo svela la persistenza di quel materiale simbolico con cui oggi viene costruito il consenso a pratiche, discorsi e istituzioni razziste. L’obiettivo del volume è quello di fornire uno strumento interpretativo fondamentale per la comprensione di ciò che resta del passato e come si trasforma nel presente il razzismo in Italia.
Pur diversi per collocazione disciplinare e forma narrativa, i contributi qui raccolti sono tuttavia accomunati da un esplicito posizionamento autoriflessivo, sullo sfondo delle grandi contraddizioni e trasformazioni del nostro tempo. Ne risulta una polifonia di voci che restituisce una visione originale e articolata degli affetti, del desiderio e dei modelli di genere e sessualità vissuti in un contesto di precarietà, non solo economica e lavorativa ma fondamentalmente esistenziale.
Riflessioni e ricerche di un lavoro corale che non si limita a fotografare e analizzare l'esistente, ma indica le strategie necessarie per mettere in discussione l'ordine delle cose, evocando una dimensione del pensare e dell'agire che da individuale diventa collettiva, assumendo così rilevanza sociale e politica.
An Ugly Word is an important and timely work: it takes a frightening picture of our times, using interviews and a opportune sociological and critical race theory-based analysis of them to reveal how race thinking imbues perceptions, ideas, and conceptions of racialized Otherness in the mind of young white Italians. It fills a gap in flourishing research on Italian racism that in the last ten years has focused mostly on racist and colonial archives and how they are reproduced in Italian culture, society, and politics. My contribution to the debate opened by the journal on the book focuses on the pervasiveness of race in Italy, on my critique of categorization circulating within the international debate on race, and concludes advocating the importance of maintaining the concept of race and exploring its visual reproduction in Italian and European critical literature, to see racism and fight against it.
"Ricerche per Lidia: il femminismo nelle arti visive, nel corpo, nelle migrazioni, nella fantascienza, nel presente e futuro interspecie - volume 1"
Keywords: disaster, postcolonial studies, posthuman communication, science fiction
In this article, we analyse three different products of Italian contemporary cinematography on Lampedusa: the two award-winning movies Terraferma and Fuocoammare and the TV miniseries Lampedusa. We argue that, with some slight exception for the last of the three, they contribute to absolve the viewers from the contemporary drama of the uneven distribution of power in postcolonial world and to ‘whitewash’ the violent order in which borders are inscribed.
Keywords: Migrations; Lampedusa; Cinema; Innocence; Whiteness.
sul significato della parola razza e sul fenomeno del razzismo, rilanciato dal web e dai mezzi di informazione
and reproduced in Italy through the most popular and transgenerational media.
Three television shows will be taken into consideration: Licia Colò’s Alle falde
del Kilimangiaro, Bruno Vespa’s Porta a porta, and Alfonso Signorini’s Kalispéra!.
The latter two are particularly well-known for their coverage of Berlusconi’s sex scandal involving the Italian-Moroccan under-age Karima el Mahroug alias Ruby ‘Rubacuori’. Alle falde del Kilimangiaro will be contrasted with the ferocious attacks in the media (video and newspaper) by a number of political forces and cultural opinion makers against former Italian Minister for Integration Cécile Kyenge (2013). This discussion will also analyze the discursive strategies employed by both El Mahroug and Kyenge against the exotizing and openly inferiorizing discourses built around them.
bianchezza non ariana, sia un fenomeno di lunga durata che trova le proprie radici nel processo di nation building nelle sue varie fasi, dall’età liberale al fascismo, alla repubblica. A partire dalla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, sia a seguito della messa al bando formale del razzismo teorico in Europa, sia a causa della (quanto mai semplicistica) associazione tra razzismo e fascismo avallata dalle istituzioni post-fasciste, ciò che si è realizzato è una dissimulazione semantica del discorso sulla razza. Intendo per tale dissimulazione un ‘nascondimento’ del razzismo che disconosce l’archivio coloniale e schiavista da cui attinge – le ‘figure della razza’ (rappresentazioni del soggetto razzializzato sedimentate nel tempo e costruite in modo transnazionale) di cui si compone – e le pratiche discorsive di cui si nutre. Il mio articolo intende ragionare su come la costruzione della bianchezza e le figure della razza concorrano oggi ad articolare e sostenere una specifica ‘comunità immaginata,’ mediante una serie di dispositivi discorsivi e visuali che sostengono la costruzione culturale del Sé nazionale e dei suoi Altri, in una prospettiva transnazionale che ricollega il campo semantico e storico-politico della nazione ad una dimensione globale e post-coloniale.
Coniugando filosofia politica e metodi propri della critica culturale e postcoloniale e dell’approccio intersezionale, la mia analisi prende vita all’incrocio di critical visual studies, critical security studies e critical border studies. Nello specifico della ricerca da me condotta nell’ambito di “(De)Othering”, mi sono occupata di analisi critica del discorso mediatico coadiuvata da interviste condotte tra il 2020 e il 2021 con esperti, giornaliste
di media mainstream e alternativi, attiviste, artiste, curatrici e curatori italiani. L’obiettivo di questo studio è comprendere quale immaginario sottende e riproduce un’idea dell’Italia – e dell’Europa – come isolata dal resto del mondo, innocente rispetto a violenza e catastrofe, e “sotto l’assedio” di barbari venuti dall’oltremare.
Gli atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi "Cinema e identità italiana" (Roma, 28-29 dicembre 2017) mettono in luce la molteplicità delle prospettive con cui può essere affrontato il problema dell'identità nazionale, in un arco temporale che va dai primordi del cinema fi no alla contemporaneità. Un gran numero di studiosi di varia età e provenienza si misura con metodologie e punti di vista differenti, intrecciando le dinamiche cinematografi che con la storia culturale del Paese e con il più vasto panorama intermediale.
la violenza degli uomini sulle donne. E’ un sommovimento di culture e generazioni diverse che si dà appuntamento a Roma il 24 per una manifestazione senza precedenti di donne per le donne. Per dire no al sessismo. Ma anche no al razzismo e no al pacchetto sicurezza.
The first edition of the summer school ‘Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultraviolence’ stemmed from the organisers’ desire to intervene in the post-Black Lives Matter backlash against critical race theory while, at the same time, providing invited guest lecturers and selected participants with a safe space where to learn about each other work and anti-racism strategies. To achieve this double objective, the first edition of ‘Endengered Theories’ was designed to equip participants with the epistemic tools of the following anti-racist theoretical paradigms: critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, postcolonial Europe, Afro-pessimism, and settler colonial studies.
As the concerted ideological campaign against Critical Race Theory continues to gain momentum, the second edition of the summer school too strives to provide participants with the space and tools necessary to reflect upon the current proliferation of anti-anti racism stances across dramatically different national contexts in conjunction with state failure to halt police violence, migrant criminalisation, imprisonment of racialized minorities and Indigenous people, and the assault against LGBTQI+ rights. The second edition, thus, proposes to introduce participants to five further anti-racist theoretical paradigms: anti-colonialism, racial capitalism, abolitionism, intersectionality, and queer settler colonial studies. Besides reflecting the expertise of invited guest speakers, these paradigms will afford prospective participants the opportunity to approach standing debates with new theoretical lenses. Neither abolitionism and queer settler colonial studies, for instance, have yet been employed to examine Fortress Europe and the rapid diffusion of anti-gender sentiments in the aftermath of homonationalism. Nor racial capitalism has been applied to explain intersectional extraction of value in the age of humanitarian and environmental catastrophes. Finally, the school will provide participants with a wide array of case-studies (e.g. Portugal, Italy, US, Brasil, UK, Dominican Republic, and Palestine), enriching their understanding of colonial, settler colonial and postcolonial intersectional matrices of power.
Organisers:
Gaia Giuliani (CES-UC), Maria Elena Indelicato (CES-US), Carla Panico (CES PhD student), Susi Anny Veloso Resende (CES-UC/ Phd student ASEP-UNIMIB), and Daniela Ayoub (CES-UC).
Teaching Team:
Maria Paula Meneses, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra;
Medhin Paolos, Professor of the Practice, Film and Media Studies, Tufts University;
João H. Costa Vargas, Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin;
Gargi Bhattacharyya, Research Professor, Sociology, Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, Easter London University;
Lester Spence,Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies John Hopkins University;
Shahd Wad, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra;
Sofia José Santos,Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra;
Júlia Garraio, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra;
Cristiano Gianolla, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra;
Rita Santos, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra;
Luciane Lucas dos Santos, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra;
Lorgia García Peña, Professor, Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. Chair, Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora,Tufts University;
Vanessa Fernandes, filmmaker, performer and visual artist.
- border and state surveillance technologies: management of refugees’ mobility;
- objects, infrastructures and spaces: how classifications and standards envisage smooth protocols while producing human suffering;
- digital technologies among asylum-seekers and transportation networks: moral and political capacitation;
- sociotechnical controversies around systems and formulae being devised for asylum-seeker allocation throughout Europe,
- local formats of doing politics at the margins of democracy (e.g. refugee-organised actions in informal camps or detention centres),
- issues of exclusion and orders of visibility: critically explore the positioning of refugees not recognized as humans of their own right in sociotechnical assemblages;
We invite scholars to critically reassess individual research contributions through joint discussion of each draft paper. Abstracts are invited from researchers (including refugee scholars) in the field of STS from a wide array of European countries. Participants are expected to present their own contribution and to be discussant on other papers.
Coupled with the workshop, a science café is planned under the title: “Science and Technology: Helping for refugees’ integration in Portugal?” with inputs from participants and other practitioners in a public space in Coimbra. In 2019, a new invitation will be issued to submit revised/full chapters for peer review, to be compiled in an anthology and afterwards submitted to an international academic publisher.
Confirmed Speakers:
Christina Boswell, University of Edinburg, UK
Martina Tazzioli, Swansea University, UK
embracing different critical approaches which include literary, structural, and theoretical approaches (Pearson, Singer [2009], Christian [ed.], 2001, Langer, 2011; Hoagland, Sarwal [eds.], 2011), in a concerted effort to redefine the cultural contents that these genres have the ability to express. In literary, visual and cinematographic typologies, postcolonial issues – whether regarding gender, genre or racism – introduce new forms and potentialities in the expression of the tensions of postcolonial contemporaneity and in the restructuring/deconstruction of historical experience.
Considering the importance that studies on genres such as crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy are achieving in the academic field, this thematic issue intends to explore popular narratives (crime fiction, post-apocalyptic, fantasy and science fiction) produced in the South, more precisely in the Atlantic area. The texts should examine how these narratives represent the social, namely how they address concerns and fears in various social contexts: citizenships in crisis, endangered citizenships, crime and contemporary perceptions of the end-of-the-world. From a comparative and pluri-disciplinary perspective, this journal issue is intended to explore how many of these narratives convey and articulate their cultural specificities in a transnational space. The originality of this call lies not only in the type of narratives under analysis, but also in the way of reading and interpreting them, namely through a comparative lens and informed by sociology, philosophy and philology.
Regarding the theoretical approach, the reference studies cover a structural perspective on the above-mentioned genres (Altman 2000; Giardinelli, 1996), as well as a cultural perspective. The latter is based on theories about biopolitics (Agamben, 1996; Esposito, 2004) and social conspiracies, whether as a threat of the state against the population (Piglia 2006, Besarón 2009, Braham, 2004) or as fear
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09/04/2019 Endangered Citizenship: Crime, End of the World and Biopolitics in Postcolonial Literatures and Cinema – until May 15, 2019
of racial or social otherness. From this point of view, it is also possible to examine the postcolonial contributions of these literary forms to academic critique (Giuliani, 2015). They are crucial to focus the problem of the representation of the Other, especially through the reactivation of the concept of monstrosity (cannibals, zombies or aliens) in national and international popular culture.
Therefore, this thematic issue aims to establish a dialogue among researchers who are interested in the above-mentioned literary, visual and cinematographic typologies. Regarding the relation between the presence of otherness and its fictional and fantastic representation in terms of popular cultural production, this issue aims to reflect on the discrepancies in the representation of the relation between nature and technology and its impact on the structuring of citizenship (with its modes of inclusion and exclusion), on the one hand, and, on the other, the relationship between society, power and institutions, on both sides of the Atlantic. These spaces should be understood not only as geographical sites, but also as forms of representation of difference (racial, political), biopolitics and violence.
Secondo simposio di InteRGRace – Interdisciplinary Research Group on Race and Racisms (FISPPA, University of Padova)
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Visuality and (anti) racism
21-22 January 2016
University of Padova, Italy
in collaboration with FISSPA, Centro Interuniversitario di Storia Culturale (CSC), DISGSGeA, Postcolonialitalia, ZaLab, Docucity, CUC/Centro Universitario Cinematografico
Keynote speakers
Monica Moreno Figueroa – Cambridge University
Anna Scacchi – University of Padova
Intorno alla costruzione storica, sociale e culturale del corpo
16 dicembre 2014
UNIVERSITÀ DI PADOVA
Inizio lavori 9.30-13.30
Introduce Carlotta Sorba direttrice del Centro di Storia Culturale
Gaia Giuliani e Annalisa Frisina introducono InteRGRace
- Sessione mattutina: 10.00-13.00
Presiede:
Annalisa Oboe (Postcolonialitalia, Università di Padova)
Keynote:
Silvana Patriarca
Fordham University, NY
Continuità storiche e assenze storiografiche: sul razzismo antinero nell’Italia del dopoguerra
Intervengono:
Gaia Giuliani
Università di Bologna
Mappare le costruzioni del corpo nei loro percorsi transnazionali
Gabriele Proglio
Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze
Luoghi coloniali e corpi italiani: l’oltremare come occasione per ripensare l’italianità
Vincenza Perilli
InteRGrace
Dalle madame alle segnorine. Corpi genderizzati e razzizzati tra colonia e postcolonia
Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh
Università di Macerata
Meticciato/miscegenation: corpo, razza e nazione tra Italia e Stati Uniti
Devi Sacchetto
Università di Padova
La linea del colore nei processi lavorativi
Discussant:
Silvana Patriarca e Annalisa Oboe
Dibattito
- Sessione pomeridiana: 15.00-18.30
Presiede:
Gaia Giuliani
Keynote:
Cristina Demaria
Università di Bologna
Per una lettura semiotica del corpo: prospettive intersezionali
Intervengono:
Annalisa Frisina
Università di Padova
Corpi razzializzati, corpi resistenti. Sulla controvisualità delle figlie delle migrazioni in Italia
Elisa Arfini
Università di Bologna
Sexing disability. Soggettivazione sessuata e altre morfologie incorporate
Daniele Salerno
Università di Bologna
Migrazioni per mare. Corporeità, sicurezza, lavoro del lutto
Sabrina Marchetti
Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze
Corpi al lavoro, fra genere, razza e classe
Discussants:
Cristina Demaria – Università di Bologna
Alessandro Mongili – Università di Padova
Dibattito
I saggi qui raccolti discutono quindi questioni cruciali della politica e della riflessione teorica femminista contemporanea: il rapporto tra riconoscimento delle differenze e ricerca di un nuovo universalismo; il nesso tra riflessione teorica e attivismo femminista; le lotte delle donne del sud del mondo contro le politiche neoliberiste e la ricerca di nuove pratiche di resistenza e di solidarietà fra donne; la relazione esistente, infine, fra politiche della conoscenza e pratiche politiche femministe transnazionali.
Con un’analisi originale e provocatoria di uno dei fenomeni più complessi del mondo contemporaneo, Asad esamina il terrorismo suicida da punti di vista inediti, pungolando il lettore a prendere distanza da risposte preconfezionate al terrorismo, alla guerra e agli attacchi suicidi."
Indice
Presentazione di Adriana Cavarero - Prefazione alla seconda edizione – Prefazione – Abbreviazioni - Introduzione - 1. Desiderio, retorica e riconoscimento nella «Fenomenologia dello spirito» di Hegel - 2. Desideri storicizzati: la ricezione francese di Hegel - 3. Sartre: la ricerca immaginaria dell’essere - 4. Le «lotte per la vita e per la morte» del desiderio: Hegel e la teoria francese contemporanea - Note – Bibliografia - Indice analitico."
Gli autori
Ranajit Guha ha insegnato in numerose Università in India, in Inghilterra, negli Stati Uniti e in Australia. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983), Dominance without Hegemony. History and Power in Colonial India (1997) e History at the Limit of the World-History (2002).
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak insegna alla Columbia University di New York. Bengalese di nascita, si è trasferita negli Stati Uniti a metà degli anni Settanta. Oggi è una delle più affermate teoriche femministe statunitensi e una protagonista degli "studi postcoloniali". Tra le sue pubblicazioni: The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990) e A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (1999).
Il curatore
Sandro Mezzadra insegna Storia del pensiero politico contemporaneo nella Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università di Bologna. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: La costituzione del sociale. Il pensiero giuridico e politico di Hugo Preuss (Il Mulino, 1999); Diritto di fuga. Migrazioni, cittadinanza, globalizzazione (ombre corte, 2001). Ha inoltre recentemente curato l’edizione di Cittadinanza e classe sociale di Thomas H. Marshall (Laterza, 2002).
confini ben oltre quelli nazionali, è erede della distinzione moderna
tra un certo Noi e molti Altri. Il potere semiotico di questo
confine storico e simbolico funziona nel produrre le persone
come mostri: mostri che, «invadendo», scompaginano la separazione
spaziale tra egemonico e subalterno, tra civiltà e barbarie.
Ha inoltre la capacità di ricombinare ciò che ho chiamato
«figure della razza», ossia quelle strutture elementari che si sono
sedimentate nel tempo e attraverso i confini imperiali e nazionali.
Strutture che determinano il modo di pensare e di pensarsi
dentro le relazioni di potere razzializzate.
brings together scholars from the arts, humanities and social sciences to discuss historical constructions of Italian whiteness and national identity in relation to the current xenophobic discourse on race and migration, stressing their rootedness in as yet unchallenged modern notions of scientific racism. Building on postcolonial historian and anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler’s definition of the colonial archive as a ‘site of knowledge production’ and a ‘repository of codified beliefs’ in Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2009: 97), the discussants conceive the archive as a multi-layered, collective repository of aspiration, dominance, desire, self-aggrandizement and fear through which the development of society’s self-image can be revealed but also – through a systematic and critical approach to the (visual) archive of coloniality –contested. Based on the analysis of visual cultures (photographs, news footage, advertisements, propaganda, fiction film, etc.) the Roundtable addresses and connects wide-ranging issues such as: the gaze from above and below in colonial-era ethnographic film; the depiction of migration in the Far Right’s rhetoric; representations of fears and fetishisms towards Others in Federico Fellini’s work; and the exploitation of the colonial past in the Italy–Libya Bilateral Agreements on migration. The Roundtable was organized in response to the surge in xenophobic violence sparked by the Italian Parliamentary elections of March 2018 and to mark the publication of Gaia Giuliani’s monograph Race, Nation, and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture (2018).
Title: Book of Abstracts. Summer School ‘Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theories
in the Age of Ultraviolence’.
Editors: Gaia Giuliani, João Figueiredo, Maria Elena Indelicato, and Carla Panico.
Graphics Designer: © Carla Panico.
Cover Image: © João Figueiredo | Art Intervention, Parque Popular, Saint Thomas, Saint Thomas
and Prince, 2021.
Publisher: Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.
Coimbra.
2022.
ISBN: 978-989-8847-45-4
This Open Access publication has been made available under a Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0
International (CC BY 4.0).
(De)Othering: Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and ‘internal Others’ in Portuguese and European mediascapes
November 18 and 19, 2021, 09h00
Online (1st day) || Online + CIUL | Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa (2nd day )
Overview
The project’s Final conference aims to present its field work in dialogue with members of its consultants, advisory board, and other stakeholders. Its team will thus discuss findings and published insights with activists, journalists, artists, early career scholars and intellectuals from the five case studies: Portugal, Italy, Germany, France and the UK. In this conference, organised with the collaboration of ITM (the Inter-Tematic research group on Migrations at CES), the first day – entirely online – is dedicated to the internationalisation of the project's research, and the second – mixed format: hosted by the CIUL Lisboa and also accessible online – is dedicated to Portugal.
Day 1 - 18 November 2021 | From 09:00 (GMT)
To enter in the zoom room
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Day 2 – 19 November 2021 | From 09:30 (GMT)
CIUL – Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa + | Free registration, but mandatory > deothering@gmail.com
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Online
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Activity within the research project «(De)Othering | Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and 'internal Others' in Portuguese and European mediascapes» (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029997)