Event overview
The event is hosted by the Unit of Global Justice, Department of Sociology
This paper engages three innovative conceptual frameworks for theorizing diasporic formation that depart from traditional emphasis on mobility, resistance and expressiveness as primary idioms of black culture. It elaborates the concepts of quiet, stasis, and fugitivity, and uses them to consider what they tell us about what we overlook, overhear, erase or leave unremarked in diasporic formations. Vernacular photography offers an important and frequently overlooked window into practices of diasporic dwelling and fugitivity, when we attend differently to the quiet practices of stasis through which they image fugitivity. Reading these three keywords together through the photography of a Black German family offers a provisional glimpse into the possibilities of theorizing some of the fugitive practices often rendered unvisible in other diasporic frames.
Professor Tina Campt (Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program, Barnard College, New York)
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| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 9 May 2013 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
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