Title

Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe

Description

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.

Subject

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

Publisher

Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari

Date

2023

Identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0

Type

Text

Format

PDF

Language

en

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134609

Relation

Studi e ricerche 15

Rights

CC BY 4.0

Educational Level

Higher education | research

Interactivity Type

Expositive