7 (2020) | Surviving the pandemic. Reflections on intimacy, care, inequalities, resistance and transnational solidarity, 2020
The aim of Surviving the pandemic is to address the urgent need to understand, from a variety of ... more The aim of Surviving the pandemic is to address the urgent need to understand, from a variety of perspectives and critical angles, the social and cultural effects of what 'we' are going through locally and globally, because of an unprecedented pandemic that is changing the life of many. In order to contribute to the current debate on Covid-19, From the European South elicited articles, creative pieces, and ongoing personal reflections that could offer inter-disciplinary, multifaceted analyses and representations of the global crisis, asking how culture, the arts, society and politics are changing in this major shift, and how we are facing the fragility of the human. Issue 7 also begins to figure out what our lives will be like after the lockdowns in most parts of the world, and how we resist the inequalities that this pandemic is revealing and taking to their extreme. Can we imagine new paradigms for new beginnings? The collected contributions reflect on the 'we' that is investigated. Coherently with a postcolonial approach, this special focus highlights the existence of many different 'wes', according to a politics of location and an attention to the uneven distribution of power across the globe, which acknowledge the working of disparities in the way the pandemic is experienced. If this pandemic has a global scope, its effects are not universally the same: if it is changing the life of those who were considered as untouched or untouchable-because of their geographical location and their racial, class and gender privileges-it is making its impact on common people all the more striking. As the collected articles show, the effects of the pandemic need to be investigated at the crossroads of race, gender, sexuality, class, age and health differences and divides. The lockdowns have had a very unequal impact on people according to their housing, work, and social conditions, and affected them personally and intimately very unevenly, within and across national borders. The pandemic and institutional responses to it increased the violent effects of gendered and racialised power relations and border regimes, leaving behind increasingly impoverished national and transnational social margins and people at-the-border. They gave way to border restrictions and ideas of the nation as an imagined community that-must-be-defended. In response to it, many forms of resistance and solidarity based on medical aid and care emerged locally and transnationally.
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convegno internazionale postcolonialitalia
Università di Padova, 18-20 febbraio 2015
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonizing the Mind (1986).
DECOLONIZZARE LA MENTE LA POLITICA DELLA LINGUA NELLA LETTERATURA AFRICANA. Trad. dall’inglese di Maria Teresa Carbone, pp. 126, € 14, Jaca Book, Milano 2015.
In line with the mission of *From the European South*, issue number two aims at investigating insurgent actions and discourses from the South, intended as collective and/or individual examples of forceful claiming and revising of human rights from ex-centric perspectives.
This conference aims to tackle this theme from multiple perspectives, including the various declinations of the humanities, ranging from literature to linguistics, from pedagogy to philosophy. Such a wide and interdisciplinary approach will shed further light on the dynamics of orality and writing, hopefully leading to a more comprehensive view of their interactions, so that their contribution to the development of human thought and culture may be equally recognized.
Programme:https://oralitaescrittura.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/programma/
«La scrittura ha trasformato la mente umana più di qualsiasi altra invenzione». Questa affermazione di W. J. Ong può suonare strana a chi vive in una società che ha ormai familiarizzato con la scrittura. Alcuni studi fondamentali del XX secolo – fra cui, per l’ambito classico, Cultura orale e civiltà della scrittura di E. Havelock (1963) seguito poi da Oralità e scrittura di Ong (1982) – hanno evidenziato che è stato proprio il passaggio da una società orale a una chirografica, e di qui alla stampa e infine all’elaborazione elettronica della parola, a determinare gli sviluppi più significativi del pensiero, delle società e della storia dell’uomo. Ma è davvero questa l’unica prospettiva possibile? Il convegno si propone di affrontare il tema da una prospettiva ampia e interdisciplinare, declinandolo nei vari ambiti degli studi letterari e umanistici e cercando di accogliere le dinamiche dell’oralità e della scrittura in una visione complessiva, dove entrambe risultino ugualmente importanti nello sviluppo della coscienza e della cultura umana. Programma: https://oralitaescrittura.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/programma/
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Format: Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-5261-4720-2 Pages: 296
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published Date: February 2022
Category: Contemporary Literature, Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literature & literary studies / Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature & literary studies / Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literature & literary studies / Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literature & literary studies / Literary studies: from c 1900 -