Stepping forward, looking back: Post-colonial, Global, Transnational, and Diasporic Studies in the 21st century
Heather Smyth, Stephen Slemon, Stephen Ney, Belén Martín-Lucas, Leela Gandhi, Kit Dobson, Janet Conway put together by the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology (UW)Featuring Janet Conway, Kit Dobson, Leela Gandhi, Belén Martín-Lucas, Stephen Ney, Stephen Slemon, and Heather Smyth, this roundtable add...
Live tweeting a round-table on the future of "post colonial" studies. #Congress2012- Panelists: Dr. Belen Martin Lucas, Dr. Kit Dobson, Dr. Leela Gandhi, Dr. Janet Conway, Dr. Stephen Slemon, Dr. Heather Smyth #Congress2012
- More broadly titled: postcolonial, transnational and globalization studies: what does it all mean? #Congress2012
- What is the relationship between poco, transnational and globalization studies in lit crit and cultural studies #Congress2012
- The panelists have 5 minutes each, then call-and-answer debate, then opening it up to the crowd. #Congress2012
- Lucas: movement from post- to trans-. Postcolonial and postfeminist would seem to carry a sense of failure #Congress2012
- Lucas: trans- carries with it an implication of agency and action. It's appealing and safe. #Congress2012
- Lucas: postcolonial approaches to the globalized culture can help understand the influence of neo-liberal politics. #Congress2012
- Dobson: quoting Zizek, capitalism is now re-emerging as the problem. #Congress2012
- Dobson: poco and diasporic studies get subsumed into the larger debates about capitalism? #Congress2012
- Dobson: discourses can't become simplistic totalities, must retain complexity. #Congress2012
- Gandhi-poco has challenged essentialism, critiqued partial knowledges. Also critiqued self-suffiency of western self-critique #Congress2012
- Gandhi: more interested in creating a complete world picture rather than critiquing partial world pictures #Congress2012
- Gandhi: we need to teach more languages, more work in archive. Need to start making things up, be creative #Congress2012
- Conway: more on the social science side. Working on the anti-globalization movement. #Congress2012
- Conway: Colonial difference, that which has been rendered backwards b/c of colonial. #Congress2012
- Conway: both critical globalization studies and critical transnational studies are problematic. #Congress2012
- Conway: Critical globalization studies is openly and unapologetically political, which is important and problematic #Congress2012
- Conway: transnational studies is less concerned w/critiquing capitalism. More rooted in poststructuralism #Congress2012
- Conway: problematic b/c is not explicitly political, less involved in the concrete struggles. #Congress2012
- Slemon: how can we be relevant, impact change in this rapidly-changing world, economically and socially? #Congress2012
- Slemon: poco wasted its time looking inward at itself, rather than developing outward. #Congress2012
- Slemon: lost way in administrative worrying, so moving towards other -ism. #Congress2012
- Slemon: next gen of students won't waste their time with inter-disciplinary boundaries, but will engage outward #Congress2012
