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Call for Papers

Theme: Globalisation
Type: 2017 Postcolonial Studies Association Convention
Institution: Postcolonial Studies Association
   School of Advanced Study, University of London
Location: London (United Kingdom)
Date: 18.–20.9.2017
Deadline: 28.2.2017

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We are pleased to announce that the 2017 PSA Convention will be held
at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London,
from 18th to 20th September 2017. Paper and panel proposals are
invited from academics, scholars and postgraduates with research
interests in any area of postcolonial studies from any disciplinary,
cross- or interdisciplinary perspective.

Confirmed keynote speaker:
Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin)

Other keynotes to be confirmed shortly.

The Special Topic of the 2017 Convention is Globalisation. Proposals
for panels and papers on this theme are particularly encouraged
(click here for CfP).

While the transregional history of globalisation can be traced back
to antiquity, its discursive entanglement with the temporal realm of
the ‘postcolonial’ has been the subject of much discussion and
analysis in recent times. The 2017 convention seeks to investigate
the crucial role of postcolonial studies in furthering newer
understandings of economic, political and cultural globalisation in
the light of the current international climate: the complex
socio-political ramifications of the Brexit verdict, Trump’s
electoral victory, or the European refugee crisis, which have come to
be regarded as the reactionary ‘whitelash’ against globalisation.

Harnessing the philosophical scope of the postcolonial field, our
special topic aims to examine the nexus between a ‘neoliberal’
grand-narrative and ‘neocolonial racism’ as a mainstream ideological
position in both the North and South. How are these ongoing
developments in the global North perceived by peoples and communities
in the global South? How is the North/South binary interrogated by
the liminal story spaces of illegal immigrants, temporary workers,
refugees and asylum seekers? How might we postulate an alternative
global economy? In what ways could informal citizenship practices
collaborate with radical discourses of ecofeminism, or the
transnational agency of a globalised digital resistance, to pose a
concerted challenge to the reductive hierarchies of neocolonial
racism? In what ways might postcolonial analyses of cultural
production account for globalisation within the current economic and
political conjuncture?

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20-minute
individual papers and 500 words for panels of three, along with a
brief biographical note of participants (2-3 sentences max), to:
psaconfere...@postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk

The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Tuesday, 28th February
2017.

Conference website:
http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk/2017-psa-convention/


Contact:

Anshuman Mondal, Chair
Postcolonial Studies Association
Armstrong House
First Avenue
Robin Hood Airport
Doncaster, DN9 3GA
United Kingdom
Email: psaconfere...@postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk
Web: http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk




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