Postcolonial Empires:
Transnational Being and Ontological Politics 2010-11
Alternate Wednesdays, 17.00 - 19.00 during term time
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
Conveners
Catherine Rashid (Faculty of English)
Catriona McAllister (Centre of Latin American Studies- CLAS)
Jonathan Agensky (Department of Politics and International Studies -POLIS)
The series theme for the 2010/11 academic year will be ‘Postcolonial Empires: Transnational Being and Ontological Politics’ and will focus on the various types of knowledges and practices of knowledge production that have been taken up in the global South, especially against the uneven and problematic contexts of post colonial politics and global asymmetries. Some of the key questions driving this series will be: How do contesting ontologies inform or underwrite local resistances, and problematize notions of ‘modernity’ and ‘secularism’? And how, if at all, do they find purchase in broader global/dominant discourses?
This thematic will
continue to pursue the initial project of the Postcolonial Empires group and
its key questions. Does postcolonial theory remain relevant to analytical and
critical investigations of twenty-first century empires? How does postcolonial
theory then explain the politicisation of religious, spiritual and
‘traditional’ worldviews? How have localised cultural practices become
syncretistic and/or opposed to Western modernity?
Administrative contact: Esther Lamb (Grad/Fac Programme and Office Manager)
