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Katharina Wiedlack• Saltanat Shoshanova• Masha Godovannaya (eds.) Queering Paradigms VIII
Oxford, 2020 . X, 372 pp ., 2 fig . col Queering Paradigms. Vol. 10
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Queering Paradigms VIII brings together critical discourses on queerfeminist solidarity between Western, post-Soviet and post-socialist contexts . It highlights transnational solidarity efforts against homophobia, transphobia and misogyny . It engages grassroots activists and community organizers in a conversation with scholars, and shows that the lines between these categories are blurry and that queer theorists and analysts are to be found in all spheres of queer-feminist culture . It highlights that queer paradigms and theories are born in street protests, in community spaces, in private spheres, through art and culture as well as in academia, and that the different contexts speak to each other . This anthology presents some of the radical approaches that emerge at the intersection of activism, community organizing, art and academia, through transnational exchange, migration and collaborations . It is a celebration of alliances and solidarities between activism, community building, art, culture and academic knowledge production . Yet, the collected work also brings forward the necessary critique of Western hegemonies involved in contemporary queer-feminist solidarity activism and theory between the ‘East’ and ‘West .’ It is an important thinking about, thinking through and thinking in solidarity and the East/West divide, setting new impulses to fight oppression in all its forms . Cameron McCarthy• Koeli Moitra Goel• Ergin Bulut• Warren Crichlow• Brenda Nyandiko Sanya• Bryce Henson (eds.) Spaces of New Colonialism
Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization
New York, 2020 . XXX, 402 pp ., 13 b/w ill . Intersections in Communications and Culture. Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 36
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Spaces of New Colonialism is an edited volume of 16 essays and interviews by prominent and emerging scholars who examine how the restructuring of capitalist globalization is articulated to key sites and institutions that now cut an ecumenical swath across human societies . The volumeis the product of sustained, critical rumination on current mutations of space and material and cultural assemblages in key institutional flashpoints of contemporary societies undergoing transformations sparked by neoliberal globalization . The flashpoints foregrounded in this edited volume are concentrated in the nexus of schools, museums and the city . The book features an intense transnational conversation within an online collective of scholars who operate in a variety of disciplines and speak from a variety of locations that cut across the globe, north and south .Spaces of New Colonialism began as an effort to connect political dynamics that commenced with the Arab spring and uprisings and protests against whiteon-black police violence in US cities to a broader reading of the career, trajectory and effects of neoliberal globalization . Contributors look at key flashpoints or targets of neoliberalism in present-day societies: the school, the museum and the city . Collectively, they maintain that the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit movement in England marked a political maturation, not a mere aberration, of some kind—evidence of some new composition of forces, new and intensifying forms of stratification, ultimately new colonialism—that now distinctively characterizes this period of neoliberal globalization .
