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EP dO i teS dT bC y RO L e dO i KN I oA o bL a kA , MN D a d iP n aO TS loT sS t aO n oC vI a anAL Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality dI SS uT r uD POSTCOLONIAL AND chiIA TL hO apG aU POSTSOCIALIST DIALOGUES r -BE jS ö r k e r t INTERSECTIONS, OPACITIES, CHALLENGES IN FEMINIST THEORIZING AND PRACTICE Edited by Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert www.routledge.com Routledge titles are available as eBook editions in a range of digital formats 9780367434403_Full Cover_HBK.indd 1 11-01-2021 15:40:28 “This timely anthology comes together at the generative intersections of the asynchronous and sometimes contradictory struggles of postcolonial and postsocialist feminisms. Boldly confronting the race-blindness of postsocialism, and the overwhelming preoccupation with the capitalist West in postcolonialism, the contributions tackle the delicate challenge of theorizing from non-dominant locations – beyond complicity, and with a sensitive regard for difference. The collection highlights ‘uneventful activism’ and especially ‘opacity’ as resources for feminist resistance that confound easy legibility and cooptation by neoliberal recognition and success. The aim here is to safeguard ‘spaces of re-existence and change’ and a politics of post-colonial/socialist coalitions against racial capitalism.” – Mahua Sarkar, Professor, Binghampton University, SUNY “To understand our current complicated and tantalizing geopolitical and corpopolitical situation, feminist scholarship needs to engage with positive meaning making as a way of fine-tuning the researcher’s lens. This exemplary and diverse group of authors correlates postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions with feminist experiences in order to offer concepts and enlighten connections, and to combat ‘global white ignorance’ with much needed innovative politics of knowledge, activism and organizing that may give the world its future dimension back.” – Andrea Pető, Professor, Central European University, Budapest-Vienna “This collection will be of great interest to researchers, students, and general readers interested in contemporary women and feminist writing across the geopolitical East, West, North and South. It illuminates powerfully how people in different locales theorize, argue and negotiate the meanings of postcolonialism, postsocialism and their own role as intellectuals, educators and activists in the making or unmaking of the oppressive historical systems and relations underlining these phenomena. Yet the volume articulates the contributors’ desire for new epistemologies and conceptual constructs that could better capture the complexity and globality especially of postsocialism as a condition, marking important theoretical and political debates about postcoloniality, globalization, political economy, race, and power in transnational feminism, postcolonial studies, and women, gender and sexuality studies.” – Miglena Todorova, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately. This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition – historical, existential, political, and ideological – intersect and correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities, and challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of bodies and capital in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era in currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration, diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity, feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars. Redi Koobak is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen, Norway. Madina Tlostanova is Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms at Linköping University, Sweden. Suruchi Thapar-Björkert is Docent and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Government, University of Uppsala, Sweden. Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality is committed to the develop- ment of new feminist and pro-feminist perspectives on changing gender relations, with special attention to: • Intersections between gender and power differentials based on age, class, dis/abilities, ethnicity, nationality, racialisation, sexuality, violence, and other social divisions. • Intersections of societal dimensions and processes of continuity and change: culture, economy, generativity, polity, sexuality, science and technology; • Embodiment: Intersections of discourse and materiality, and of sex and gender. • Transdisciplinarity: intersections of humanities, social sciences, medical, technical and natural sciences. • Intersections of different branches of feminist theorizing, including: historical materi- alist feminisms, postcolonial and anti-racist feminisms, radical feminisms, sexual dif- ference feminisms, queer feminisms, cyber feminisms, post-human feminisms, critical studies on men and masculinities. • A critical analysis of the travelling of ideas, theories and concepts. • A politics of location, reflexivity and transnational contextualising that reflects the basis of the Series framed within European diversity and transnational power relations. Core editorial group Professor Jeff Hearn (managing editor; Örebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK) Dr Kathy Davis (Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht, The Netherlands) Professor Anna G. Jónasdóttir (Örebro University, Sweden) Professor Nina Lykke (managing editor; Linköping University, Sweden) Professor Elżbieta H. Oleksy (University of Łódź, Poland) Dr Andrea Petö (Central European University, Hungary) Professor Ann Phoenix (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University, USA) Subaltern Women’s Narratives Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies Edited by Samraghni Bonnerjee Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice Edited by Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert For more information about the series, please visit www.routledge.com/Routledge- Advances-in-Feminist-Studies-and-Intersectionality/book-series/RAIFSAI Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice Edited by Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar- Björkert to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Koobak, Redi, editor. | Tlostanova, M. V. (Madina Vladimirovna) editor. | Thapar-Bjo¨rkert, Suruchi, 1966- editor. Title: Postcolonial and postsocialist dialogues : intersections, opacities, challenges in feminist theorizing and practice / edited by Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Bjo¨rkert. Description: First Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020044007 (print) | LCCN 2020044008 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367434403 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003003199 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Feminism—History—21st century. | Sex role—History—21st century. | Neoliberalism—History— 21st century. | Race—Political aspects. | Postcolonialism—Social aspects. | Post-communism—Social aspects. Classification: LCC HQ1155 .P67 2021 (print) | LCC HQ1155 (ebook) | DDC 305.309—dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn.loc.gov/2020044007 LC ebook record available at https:// lccn.loc.gov/2020044008 ISBN: 978-0-367-43440-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-00319-9 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of figures x List of contributors xi 1 Introduction: uneasy affinities between the postcolonial and the postsocialist 1 REDI KOOBAK, MADINA TLOSTANOVA, AND SURUCHI THAPAR-BJÖRKERT PART I Intersections 11 2 Locating postsocialist precarity in global coloniality: a decolonial frame for 1989? 14 JENNIFER SUCHLAND 3 A conversation on imperial legacies and postsocialist contexts: notes from a US-based feminist collaboration 29 NEDA ATANASOSKI AND KALINDI VORA 4 Bridging postcoloniality, postsocialism, and “race” in the age of Brexit: an interview with Catherine Baker 40 CATHERINE BAKER AND REDI KOOBAK 5 Queering “Postsocialist Coloniality”: decolonising queer fluidity and postsocialist postcolonial China 53 SHANA YE 6 Circassian trajectories between post-Soviet neocolonialism, indigeneity, and diasporic dispersions: a conversation 69 LIDIA ZHIGUNOVA AND MADINA TLOSTANOVA viii Contents PART II Opacities 91 7 Opacity as a feminist strategy: postcolonial and postsocialist entanglements with neoliberalism 94 RAILI MARLING 8 Anti-colonial struggles, postcolonial subversions: an interview with Nivedita Menon 109 NIVEDITA MENON, SURUCHI THAPAR-BJÖRKERT AND MADINA TLOSTANOVA 9 Uneventful feminist protest in post-Maidan Ukraine: nation and colonialism revisited 121 MARIA MAYERCHYK AND OLGA PLAKHOTNIK 10 Postsocialist poetics: interview with Krёlex zentr 138 KRЁLEX ZENTR, LESIA PAGULICH AND TATSIANA SHCHURKO 11 Speaking against the void: decolonial transfeminist relations and radical potentialities 155 TJAŠA KANCLER PART III Challenges 171 12 How to See the Spots of the Leopard: an interview with Quinsy Gario and Jörgen Gario 175 QUINSY GARIO, JÖRGEN GARIO AND REDI KOOBAK 13 Uneasy “posts” and unmarked categories: politics of positionality between and beyond the Global South and the European East. An interview with Manuela Boatcă 185 MANUELA BOATCĂ AND MADINA TLOSTANOVA 14 Connecting the “posts” to confront racial capitalism’s coloniality 193 ALYOSXA TUDOR AND PIRO REXHEPI Contents ix 15 “We need to learn about each other and unlearn patterns of racism”: a conversation with Angéla Kóczé 209 ANGÉLA KÓCZÉ AND PETRA BAKOS 16 Cripping postsocialist chronicity: a conversation with Kateřina Kolářová 216 KATEŘINA KOLÁŘOVÁ AND REDI KOOBAK 17 Grappling with the “China crisis”: positionality, impasse, and potential breakthrough of Chinese feminist diaspora in post-Cold War North America 227 WEILING DENG 18 Gendered nationalism in India and Poland: postcolonial and postsocialist conditions in times of populism 243 KASIA NARKOWICZ AND MITHILESH KUMAR Index 259
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