When postcolonial studies meets media studies - Talk by Professor Raka Shome - University of Goldsmith, London
Hosted by MeCCSA Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Network, with the Goldsmiths’ Centre for Feminist Research and Race Critical Studies Network
Monday, 27 November 2017 from 5 to 6.30 pm
In the introduction to the collected volume entitled 'Post-colonial studies meets Media Studies' (2016) Kai Merten and Lucia Kramer mapped out the trajectory of this encounter in various studies of the last twenty years and the different strategies adopted. Raka Shome and Radha Hegde editorship of the 2002 volume of Communication Theory is singled out as 'the initial spark for the more sociological brand of Media Studies to deal with Postcolonial Studies'. More recent work by Raka Shome has pursued further this relationship and we are therefore really happy to invite you to her talk.
Abstract
This talk will address what epistemological unsettlings, as well as new theoretical possibilities, occur when we bring postcolonial studies into conversation with media studies and vice versa. Although postcolonial studies has been primarily dominant in fields as such as Literature, and Comparative Literature, as well as Anthropology, media studies has not been programmatically involved in postcolonial studies much, despite lone scholars working on postcolonial approaches to media and communication in different locations. In an attempt to build a coherent intellectual trajectory and the area of 'postcolonial media studies,' we need to bring these areas together to see how they may unsettle each other as well as, more importantly, open up new areas and frameworks for investigation, both in media studies as well as postcolonial studies. Relatedly, a part of this talk will also address how engaging a media and technology framework in postcolonial studies may also enable us to address new in/visibilities and relations of gender--especially the gendered body.
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