CFP: Postcolonial Politics Symposium (9/8/06; 11/27/06-11/29/06)

Postcolonial Politics - A Symposium

November 27 - 29, 2006
Organised by the Postcolonial Studies Research Network
University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ

Keynote Speakers

Dr Suvendrini Perera Faculty of Media, Society=20
and Culture, Curtin University of Technology
Dr Anthony Burke School of Politics and=20
International Relations, University of New South=20
Wales
Dr Mark Devenney Historical & Critical=20
Studies, Brighton University, U.K.

Call for Papers
What is a postcolonial politics? How might such a=20
politics be constituted? What concerns animate=20
contemporary postcolonial politics? Where are the=20
spaces of politics? Where are the stakes? What=20
are the terms of political contestation and=20
transformation? How are the forms and concerns of=20
postcolonial politics shifting?

Such questions are critical in the face of=20
arguments that postcolonial criticism has become=20
absorbed into institutions of power, as well as=20
suggestions that the abstraction of the=20
postcolonial as a methodology, and its=20
appropriation for First World concerns, mean that=20
the postcolonial has no political currency.=20
Against this are arguments affirming the=20
productive possibilities of articulating a=20
politics of liberation through postcolonial=20
critique. Questions about a postcolonial politics=20
also emerge as crucial at a time when the rights=20
of a variety of peoples (asylum-seekers, refuges,=20
boat-people, exiles, diasporas, indigenous=20
communities, migrants) animate the genealogy of=20
our present.

We invite a wide range of scholars working out of=20
different contexts, disciplines and interests to=20
either reinterpret/revisit any of the major=20
debates in these fields, or ask new questions=20
that seem important. Postgraduate scholars and=20
early career researchers are particularly=20
encouraged to contribute. We intend to publish a=20
selection of papers from the symposium.

Papers from across the disciplines are invited to=20
address any aspect of Postcolonial Politics,=20
including:

=85 Citizenship, Democracy
=85 Capital, Labour, and Bio-politics
=85 Bioethics, Ecocriticism, Politics of disaster
=85 Migration, Immigration, Exile
=85 Region/ Religion/Politics and Culture
=85 Empire, Globalisation, Terrorism, Aliens
=85 Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Class, Indigeneity
=85 Media, Culture, Arts, Literature
=85 Food, Water, Epidemics and/or Pandemics
=85 Sovereignty, Freedom, Justice
=85 Opposition, Resistance, Complicity
=85 Politics of Postcolonial Theory

We invite abstracts of 250-300 words to be sent=20
to Dr Vijay Devadas=20
(vijay.devadas_at_stonebow.otago.ac.nz) by 8=20
September 2006.

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Dr Chris Prentice
Department of English
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand
Phone: 64 3 479-8920
=46ax: 64 3 479-8558
email: chris.prentice_at_stonebow.otago.ac.nz
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