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