Creolizing Europe: Legacies and Transformations

244 Pages·2015·1.454 MB·English

by  Shirley Anne Tate, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez,

Creolizing Europe
MIGRATIONS AND IDENTITIES
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Creolizing Europe
Legacies and Transformations
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
and Shirley Anne Tate
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
This volume first took shape within the Migration and Diaspora Cultural
Studies Network (MDCSN)1,* based at the University of Manchester, between
2006 and 2011. MDCSN was initiated by Margaret Littler, University of
Manchester, and Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, who was then also at
the University of Manchester, and was funded by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) between 2006 and 2007. Some of the papers given
in a series of workshops and an international conference ‘Creolizing Europe’,
which took place in Manchester in 2007, are included in this volume. We
would like to thank Margaret Littler for shaping earlier versions of this
collection. We are also very indebted to Catherine Hall for her generosity
in granting us permission to reprint Stuart Hall’s chapter ‘Creolité and the
Process of Creolization’. We would also like to thank publisher Hatje Cantz
and editors Okwui Enwezor, Carlos Bausaldo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne
Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash and Ocatvio Zaya for their permission
to reprint his chapter. Our thanks also go to Katharina Piepenbrink and
Manuela Schmidt for their support at different stages of this project.
* MDCSN was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain
from 2006 to 2008.
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Contents
Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Contributors x
Introduction: Creolizing Europe: Legacies and Transformations 1
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez and Shirley Anne Tate
1 Creolité and the Process of Creolization 12
Stuart Hall
2 World Systems and the Creole, Rethought 26
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3 Creolization and Resistance 38
Françoise Vergès
4 Continental Creolization: French Exclusion through a
Glissantian Prism 57
H. Adlai Murdoch
5 Archipelago Europe: On Creolizing Conviviality 80
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
6 Are We All Creoles? ‘Sable-Saffron’ Venus, Rachel Christie
and Aesthetic Creolization 100
Shirley Anne Tate
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7 Re-imagining Manchester as a Queer and Haptic Brown
Atlantic Space 118
Alpesh Kantilal Patel
8 Queering Diaspora Space, Creolizing Counter-Publics:
On British South Asian Gay and Bisexual Men’s
Negotiations of Sexuality, Intimacy and Marriage 133
Christian Klesse
9 On Being Portuguese: Luso-tropicalism, Migrations and the
Politics of Citizenship 157
José Carlos Pina Almeida and David Corkill
10 Comics, Dolls and the Disavowal of Racism: Learning from
Mexican Mestizaje 175
Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Emiko Saldívar Tanaka
11 Creolizing Citizenship? Migrant Women from Turkey as
Subjects of Agency 202
Umut Erel
Index 222
Figures
Figures
1 Agostino Brunias (1728–96), West India Washer Women, c.1773–75
Courtesy of the Institute of Jamaica, The National Collection of
Jamaica, West Indies 105
2 Rachel Christie, Miss England 2009
Courtesy of photoshot.com 106
Contributors
Contributors
David Corkill is a visiting lecturer at the University of Chester, having
previously worked at Manchester Metropolitan University, University
of Portsmouth and Leeds University. He has written extensively on the
economies and societies of Spain and Portugal.
Umut Erel is Lecturer in Sociology and a member of the Centre for
Citizenship, Identities and Governance at the Open University. Umut’s
research interests are in migration, ethnicity, gender, class and citizenship.
Recent publications include: Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship
(2009) and ‘Kurdish Migrant Mothers Enacting Citizenship’, Citizenship
Studies (2013).
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is Chair in Sociology at the Justus-
Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Previous to her appointment in Giessen
she was a Senior Lecturer in Transcultural Studies at the University of
Manchester. She is the author of Intellektuelle Migrantinnen (1999)
and Migration, Domestic Work and Affect  (2010), and the co-editor of
Spricht die Subalterne Deutsch? Migration und Postkoloniale Kritik (2003),
Gouvernementalität (2003) and Decolonizing European Sociology (2010).
Stuart Hall, influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor
of the New Left Review, was an Emeritus Professor at the Open University.
In 2005, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy. His published
work includes the collaborative volumes Resistance Through Rituals (1975);
Culture, Media, Language (1980); Politics and Ideology (1986); The Hard Road
to Renewal (1988); New Times (1989); Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
(1996); and Different: A Historical Context: Contemporary Photographers and
Black Identity (2001). In 2013, with Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin, he
published After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto, a statement being
made in twelve monthly installments, critically examining the nature of
neo-liberalism locally, in the United Kingdom, and globally.
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