Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_573
dc.creator	Blaagaard Bolette B.
dc.creator	Marchetti Sabrina
dc.creator	Ponzanesi Sandra
dc.creator	Bassi Shaul
dc.title	Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe
dc.type	Edited book
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe presents a collection of sixteen chapters that explore the themes of how migrants, refugees and citizens express and share their political and social causes and experiences through art and media. These expressions, which we term ‘citizen media’, arguably become a platform for postcolonial intellectuals as the studies pursued in this volume investigate the different ways in which previously excluded social groups regain public voice. The volume strives to understand the different articulations of migrants’, refugees’, and citizens’ struggle against increasingly harsh European politics that allow them to achieve and empower political subjectivity in a mediated and creative space. In this way, the contributions in this volume present case studies of citizen media in the form of ‘activistic art’ or ‘artivism’ (Trandafoiu, Ruffini, Cazzato & Taronna, Koobak & Tali, Negrón-Muntaner), activism through different kinds of technological media (Chouliaraki and Al-Ghazzi, Jedlowski), such as documentaries and film (Denić), podcasts, music and soundscapes (Romeo and Fabbri, Western, Lazzari, Huggan), and activisms through writings from journalism to fiction (Longhi, Concilio, Festa, De Capitani). The volume argues that citizen media go hand in hand with postcolonial critique because of their shared focus on the deconstruction and decolonisation of Western logics and narratives. Moreover, both question the concept of citizen and of citizenship as they relate to the nation-state and explores the power of media as a tool for participation as well as an instrument of political strength. The book forwards postcolonial artivism and citizen media as a critical framework to understand the refugee and migrant situations in contemporary Europe.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-01-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-678-7/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-678-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-677-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Activism
dc.subject	Activism
dc.subject	Activist curating
dc.subject	African-European
dc.subject	Anticolonialism
dc.subject	Artivist engagement
dc.subject	Black Italian women intellectuals
dc.subject	Black comedians
dc.subject	Black intellectuals
dc.subject	Black portraitures
dc.subject	Blackness
dc.subject	Border culture
dc.subject	Borders
dc.subject	Borderscape
dc.subject	Bowie
dc.subject	Celebrity
dc.subject	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
dc.subject	Cinema
dc.subject	Citizen media
dc.subject	Citizen media
dc.subject	Citizenship
dc.subject	Colonialism
dc.subject	Coloniality
dc.subject	Conflict news
dc.subject	Counter-publics
dc.subject	Crisis ordinariness
dc.subject	Decolonial citizenship
dc.subject	Decoloniality
dc.subject	Decoloniality of knowledge
dc.subject	Diaspora
dc.subject	Digital activism
dc.subject	Discrimination
dc.subject	Documentary auto-ethnography
dc.subject	Eastern Europe
dc.subject	Estonian art
dc.subject	Failure
dc.subject	Flesh witnessing
dc.subject	Hostile environment
dc.subject	Humour
dc.subject	Intellectual
dc.subject	Intersectionality
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Justice
dc.subject	Knowledge
dc.subject	Literature of migration
dc.subject	Mainstream media
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Migrant Voices
dc.subject	Multimodal narration
dc.subject	New media
dc.subject	New media
dc.subject	Palestine
dc.subject	Participatory art and public spaces
dc.subject	Performance and spatial politics
dc.subject	Podcasts
dc.subject	Politics
dc.subject	Post-socialism
dc.subject	Postcolonial
dc.subject	Postcolonial Europe
dc.subject	Postcolonial France
dc.subject	Postcolonial theory
dc.subject	Postsocialism
dc.subject	Racism
dc.subject	Racism
dc.subject	Radio
dc.subject	Refugee Tales
dc.subject	Relation
dc.subject	Relay
dc.subject	Renaming
dc.subject	Reni Eddo-Lodge
dc.subject	Research
dc.subject	Rhythm
dc.subject	Romania
dc.subject	Slavery
dc.subject	Social engagement
dc.subject	Social media
dc.subject	Social media
dc.subject	Structural racism
dc.subject	Syria war
dc.subject	Teju Cole
dc.subject	Theatre and refugees
dc.subject	User-generated content
dc.subject	Visibility
dc.subject	Visual art
dc.subject	Warsan Shire

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Bolette B. Blaagaard Aalborg University

Sabrina Marchetti Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Sandra Ponzanesi Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Shaul Bassi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe presents a collection of sixteen chapters that explore the themes of how migrants, refugees and citizens express and share their political and social causes and experiences through art and media. These expressions, which we term ‘citizen media’, arguably become a platform for postcolonial intellectuals as the studies pursued in this volume investigate the different ways in which previously excluded social groups regain public voice. The volume strives to understand the different articulations of migrants’, refugees’, and citizens’ struggle against increasingly harsh European politics that allow them to achieve and empower political subjectivity in a mediated and creative space. In this way, the contributions in this volume present case studies of citizen media in the form of ‘activistic art’ or ‘artivism’ (Trandafoiu, Ruffini, Cazzato & Taronna, Koobak & Tali, Negrón-Muntaner), activism through different kinds of technological media (Chouliaraki and Al-Ghazzi, Jedlowski), such as documentaries and film (Denić), podcasts, music and soundscapes (Romeo and Fabbri, Western, Lazzari, Huggan), and activisms through writings from journalism to fiction (Longhi, Concilio, Festa, De Capitani). The volume argues that citizen media go hand in hand with postcolonial critique because of their shared focus on the deconstruction and decolonisation of Western logics and narratives. Moreover, both question the concept of citizen and of citizenship as they relate to the nation-state and explores the power of media as a tool for participation as well as an instrument of political strength. The book forwards postcolonial artivism and citizen media as a critical framework to understand the refugee and migrant situations in contemporary Europe.

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Jan. 26, 2023

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978-88-6969-678-7

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978-88-6969-677-0

Keywords

Activist curating • Performance and spatial politics • Activism • Justice • Eastern Europe • Rhythm • Reni Eddo-Lodge • Discrimination • Literature of migration • Failure • Intersectionality • Conflict news • Humour • Knowledge • Research • Citizenship • Postcolonial theory • Postsocialism • Visual art • Hostile environment • Relay • Black Italian women intellectuals • Colonialism • Migrant Voices • Citizen media • Italy • Memory • Slavery • Counter-publics • Estonian art • Borderscape • Radio • Romania • Multimodal narration • Teju Cole • Postcolonial • Bowie • Decolonial citizenship • Coloniality • Post-socialism • Black intellectuals • Anticolonialism • Visibility • Intellectual • Social media • Black comedians • Refugee Tales • User-generated content • Celebrity • Decoloniality • Social engagement • Documentary auto-ethnography • Crisis ordinariness • Digital activism • Palestine • Blackness • Theatre and refugees • Cinema • Black portraitures • Postcolonial Europe • Flesh witnessing • Racism • Warsan Shire • Border culture • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Diaspora • Mainstream media • Syria war • Decoloniality of knowledge • Politics • Borders • Structural racism • African-European • New media • Renaming • Participatory art and public spaces • Podcasts • Postcolonial France • Relation • Artivist engagement

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