Decolonial and Postcolonial Approaches: A Dialogue

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This roundtable stages a dialogue between decolonial and postcolonial approaches. The idea for it emerged from conversations within the editorial collective of the journal Feminist Studies and at the NWSA 2015 meeting of the South Asian Women's Caucus. The roundtable features key figures in both postcolonial and decolonial studies, as well as scholarship about a range of regions such as the US, Mexico, South Asia, and the Caribbean. The goal is to pursue how these varied regional histories and legacies inflect conversations around colonialism and its aftermath in different ways.

Sub Unit

• General Conference / SUBTHEME FIVE: World-Making and Resistant Imaginaries

Moderator

• Ashwini Tambe, Feminist Studies, University of Maryland

Presenters

• Kiran Asher, UMASS, Amherst

• Maria Lugones, Binghamton University

• Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University

• Banu Subramaniam, Univ of Massachusetts Amherst

• Breny Mendoza, California State University, Northridge

• Kamala Visweswaran, University of California, San Diego