Postcolonizing the Nordic
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Qua . 30 Jun . 15h00
Sala Polivalente do ICS
Postcolonizing the Nordic
No âmbito do Seminário de Leitura Avançada SLT5, Seminário da Linha Temática PERMOB decorre dia 30 de Junho pelas 15 h na Sala Polivalente do ICS a sessão Postcolonizing the Nordic por Lars Jensen da Roskilde University, Dinamarca.
Scandinavia - A Peripheral Centre , Provincialising Scandinavia
Abstract:I pledge my allegiance to those who think postcolonial studies has grown to such an extent that it has inevitably dispersed into regional fields of inquiry that have become linked to other disciplines, and to some extent become interested in other questions. This carries with it the threat of distortion, atomization, and in my view, overwhelmingly the threat to overlook power relations in a no longer formally colonial world. Others would probably single out identity politics as their great concern, possibly with the same kinds of reservations.
In my presentation I am going to focus on what I see as some very interesting new perspectives that are also offered by these changes to the field, but hopefully with an eye to the threats outlined above. One of the more recent developments is a growing focus on postcolonial continental Europe, exemplified in the volume, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and Its Empires (EUP/Columbia UP 2008/09) which I co-edited with Prem Poddar and Rajeev Patke. This volume represents a first mapping that we as editors hoped would pave the way for further work. One such specific development in the regional variations on contemporary postcolonialism is the very recent emergence of a focus on Nordic postcolonialism, where a series of workshops are currently been scheduled for the next couple of years. Nordic postcolonialism in my reading goes hand in hand with Nordic post-imperialism, and in both cases call for an approach that is inspired by the Anglophone focused postcolonial studies, but also requires some reformulation. What are the kinds of translations that we need to do to look at the postcolonial in a Nordic context, what challenges may the Nordic context offer to postcolonial studies overtly Anglophone references? Part of the work I am implicitly referring to above is already being carried out in the Decoding the Nordic Colonial Mind workshops series held at Roskilde University, University of Iceland and University College of Oslo. You can also, if you want to find out more, visit our website http://www.postkolonial.dk/, as well as check out the most recent Kult publication, The Nordic Colonial Mind, on the same website.
Scandinavia - A Peripheral Centre , Provincialising Scandinavia
Abstract:I pledge my allegiance to those who think postcolonial studies has grown to such an extent that it has inevitably dispersed into regional fields of inquiry that have become linked to other disciplines, and to some extent become interested in other questions. This carries with it the threat of distortion, atomization, and in my view, overwhelmingly the threat to overlook power relations in a no longer formally colonial world. Others would probably single out identity politics as their great concern, possibly with the same kinds of reservations.
In my presentation I am going to focus on what I see as some very interesting new perspectives that are also offered by these changes to the field, but hopefully with an eye to the threats outlined above. One of the more recent developments is a growing focus on postcolonial continental Europe, exemplified in the volume, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and Its Empires (EUP/Columbia UP 2008/09) which I co-edited with Prem Poddar and Rajeev Patke. This volume represents a first mapping that we as editors hoped would pave the way for further work. One such specific development in the regional variations on contemporary postcolonialism is the very recent emergence of a focus on Nordic postcolonialism, where a series of workshops are currently been scheduled for the next couple of years. Nordic postcolonialism in my reading goes hand in hand with Nordic post-imperialism, and in both cases call for an approach that is inspired by the Anglophone focused postcolonial studies, but also requires some reformulation. What are the kinds of translations that we need to do to look at the postcolonial in a Nordic context, what challenges may the Nordic context offer to postcolonial studies overtly Anglophone references? Part of the work I am implicitly referring to above is already being carried out in the Decoding the Nordic Colonial Mind workshops series held at Roskilde University, University of Iceland and University College of Oslo. You can also, if you want to find out more, visit our website http://www.postkolonial.dk/, as well as check out the most recent Kult publication, The Nordic Colonial Mind, on the same website.
