Title:

Places Postcolonialism Forgot: New Examinations of Center & Periphery

Description:

Postcolonial studies has contributed successfully to understandings of the processes, products, objects and subjects of colonial and imperial relations. Yet many voices and places falling between the center and margins of colonial-imperial relations --or more broadly, between the cosmopolitan-provincial divide-- remain understudied and undertheorized. This session seeks to extend the lessons learned from postcolonial studies to an examination of other manifestations of hierarchies of place, particularly with respect to voices and places not represented by either the center or the periphery ("middle" places), as well as the many inequalities stemming from the social production of center-periphery. How do individuals, groups, or institutions maneuver the complex social dynamics of domination, resistance, and assimilation between, among, and within center and periphery? What are the mechanisms by which these hierarchies and polarities are reproduced?

Anticipated Attendance:

75

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Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group