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Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges

We would like to invite you to join our festive book launch for Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges for (Routledge, 2021) over Zoom on Tuesday June 8 from 3pm (UTC+2, i.e. Norwegian time). 

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.

Contributors to the book (in the order from table of contents): Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova, and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Jennifer Suchland, Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora, Catherine Baker, Shana Ye, Lidia Zhigunova, Raili Marling, Nivedita Menon, Maria Mayerchyk and Olga Plakhotnik, Krёlex Zentr, Lesia Pagulich and Tatsiana Shchurko, Tjaša Kancler,  Quinsy Gario and Jörgen Gario, Manuela Boatcă, Alyosxa Tudor and Piro Rexhepi,  Angéla Kóczé and Petra Bakos, Kateřina Kolářová, Weiling Deng,  Kasia Narkowicz and Mithilesh Kumar.

We are honoured to have the following speakers talk about different aspects of the themes the book raises: Andrea Petö, Central European UniversityNivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityNeda Atanasoski, University of California Santa CruzManuela Boatcă, University of FreiburgMithilesh Kumar, Christ (Deemed to Be University)Kasia Narkowicz, Middlesex University.

The conversation will be moderated by Kari Jegerstedt, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen. The event is scheduled at 3 PM (Central European Summer Time, UTC+2) and will go on for about one hour.Zoom link. Bring your party hats and celebratory drinks, if you’d like, and join us.

Warm welcome and feel free to invite those who you think might be interested. We will also create a Facebook event from under SKOK (Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen), if you’d like to share information about the event through social media.

See you then,

Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert

Editors