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.
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.
1. Introduction: Uneasy Affinities between the Postcolonial and the Postsocialist
Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova, and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert
PART I: Intersections
2. Locating Postsocialist Precarity in Global Coloniality: A Decolonial Frame for 1989?
Jennifer Suchland
3. A Conversation on Imperial Legacies and Postsocialist Contexts: Notes from a US-Based Feminist Collaboration
Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora
4. Bridging Postcoloniality, Postsocialism and "Race" in the Age of Brexit: An Interview with Catherine Baker
Catherine Baker and Redi Koobak
5. Queering "Postsocialist Coloniality": Decolonizing Queer Fluidity and Postsocialist Postcolonial China
Shana Ye
6. Circassian Trajectories between Post-Soviet Neocolonialism, Indigeneity, and Diasporic Dispersions: A Conversation
Lidia Zhigunova and Madina Tlostanova
PART II: Opacities
7. Opacity as a Feminist Strategy: Postcolonial and Postsocialist Entanglements with Neoliberalism
Raili Marling
8. Anti-colonial Struggles, Postcolonial Subversions: An Interview with Nivedita Menon
Nivedita Menon, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Madina Tlostanova
9. Uneventful Feminist Protest in Post-Maidan Ukraine: Nation and Colonialism Revisited
Maria Mayerchyk and Olga Plakhotnik
10. Postsocialist Poetics: Interview with Kr¿lex Zentr
Kr¿lex Zentr, Lesia Pagulich and Tatsiana Shchurko
11. Speaking Against the Void: Decolonial Transfeminist Relations and Radical Potentialities
TjaSa Kancler
PART III: Challenges
12. How to See the Spots of the Leopard: An Interview with Quinsy Gario and Jörgen Gario
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 Boatca
Manuela Boatca and Madina Tlostanova
14. Connecting the "Posts" to Confront Racial Capitalism's Coloniality
Alyosxa Tudor and Piro Rexhepi
15. "We need to learn about each other and unlearn patterns of racism.": A Conversation with Angéla Kóczé
Angéla Kóczé and Petra Bakos
16. Cripping Postsocialist Chronicity: A Conversation with Katerina Kolárová
Katerina Kolárová and Redi Koobak
17. Grappling with the "China Crisis": Positionality, Impasse, and Potential Breakthrough of Chinese Feminist Diaspora in Post-Cold War North America
Weiling Deng
18. Gendered Nationalism in India and Poland: Postcolonial and Postsocialist Conditions in Times of Populism
Kasia Narkowicz and Mithilesh Kumar