Postcolonial and postsocialist dialogues : intersections, opacities, challenges in feminist theorizing and practice / edited by Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

©2021

xvi, 265 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

"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 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Postcolonial and postsocialist dialogues First. New York : Routledge, 2021.

English

June 04, 2021

Includes bibliographical references and index.