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Corpi colonizzati: riflessioni di donne nere della diaspora

Colonized Bodies: Reflections of Black Women of the Diaspora

Libreria GRIOT. (Roma) 16 - 02 - 2023

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Corpi colonizzati: riflessioni di donne nere della diaspora. Conversazione in italiano e in inglese con Angelica Pesarini, docente, e le ricercatrici Fartun Mohamed e Iman Mohamed. Questo evento si inserisce nella Settimana di riflessioni e iniziative sui crimini e sulle eredità del colonialismo italiano, organizzata dalla

Colonized Bodies: Reflections of Black Women of the Diaspora. A panel of Afro-descendant scholars and researchers with Angelica Pesarini, Fartun Mohamed Gacal and Iman Mohamed reflect on what it means to study Italian colonialism from the opposite perspective, and on the embedded stories they bring with them as black women scholars.

Follow the conversation in Italian and English
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About Libreria Griot

The Griot Bookshop, founded in June 2006 aims to promote the literary and intellectual production of African, Arab and diaspora writers, as an expression of transnational cultures and new unprecedented cosmopolitan identities.

Over the years, Griot has established itself not only as the first bookshop in Italy entirely dedicated to the cultures of Africa and its diaspora, the literatures of the Middle East, and together with anthropology, post-colonial and migrations studies, is a point of reference for all who believe that knowledge is a tool for change in society and beyond. 

Angelica Pesarini also contributed to the book, The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship edited by the Black Mediterranean Collective

This edited volume aims to problematise and rethink the contemporary European migrant crisis in the Central Mediterranean through the lens of the Black Mediterranean. Bringing together scholars working in geography, political theory, sociology, and cultural studies, this volume takes the Black Mediterranean as a starting point for asking and answering a set of crucial questions about the racialized production of borders, bodies, and citizenship in contemporary Europe: what is the role of borders in controlling migrant flows from North Africa and the Middle East?; what is the place for black bodies in the Central Mediterranean context?; what is the relevance of the citizenship in reconsidering black subjectivities in Europe? The volume is divided into three parts. After the introduction, which provides an overview of the theoretical framework and the individual contributions, Part I focuses on the problem of borders, Part II features essays focused on the body, and Part III is dedicated to citizenship. 

The Black Mediterraenan Collective, an Italian-language website, is a collective laboratory that assembles transdisciplinary interventions in the field of postcolonial, border, race-gender-color, memory studies on the theme of the black Mediterranean. The contributions attempt to show the presence of other modernities that contest and go beyond the paradigmatic Eurocentrism that characterizes the regional history of the Mediterranean area. Instead, the perspective of the collective contains a multiplicity of periods and geographical forms; but it is also the starting point for the elaboration of diasporic, nomadic, eccentric, and decolonial subjectivities; for the construction of out-of-place bodies that subvert the genealogies imposed by the color line, by the discursiveness on gender and race, thus inventing new positionings starting from a strategic use of culture and public space. (Source: Website)