Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe
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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.
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