Read more
This collection of essays examines the spheres of arts, culture, and digital communication to trace debates that revolve around the notions of decolonization and racial (in)justice in Central and Southeast Europe. It asks how the global narratives of racial and ethnic solidarity find their way into regional contexts. How do these narratives activate the present political agenda as well as the historical pasts? How are they understood and expressed by professionals like academics, artists, activists, and above all, by actors from the lay digital audience? The edited volume presents provocative cases of political and cultural debates from Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia. Individual contributions employ an interdisciplinary framework, ranging from memory and media studies to cultural and visual studies. They discuss various phenomena from the fields of popular culture, visual arts, public art, and literature, as well as the regional examples of Black Lives Matter and Roma Lives Matter movements.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Race and civilisation in hybrid affective contexts and histories of post-socialist semi-peripheries.- Chapter 2: Stop Calling Me the M-Word: A history of one picture.- Chapter 3: Black Czech Arts in the Making?: Disrupting racial profiling.- Chapter 4: Roma Lives Matter: (Mis)Representations, missing data, and failed dialogue about structural injustice in the Romanian literary scene: Chapter 5: The Czech George Floyd?: Roma Lives Matter, neoliberal policing, and the construction of intersectional marginal identities on Facebook.- Chapter 6: Mediating and Lifeworlds: BDS Slovenija and Gibanje za pravice Palestincev.- Chapter 7: Historical Storytelling in the Hungarian Culture Wars.- Chapter 8: Right-wing Decoloniality?: How memory wars against spectral anti-communism reshape decolonial thought in Bulgaria.- Chapter 9: We Belong to the West : Crypto-colonial civilisational discourse in the Czech public sphere.
About the author
Andrea Průchová Hrůzová is a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associate professor at Charles University in Prague, Czechia. She works on the intersection of cultural sociology, visual culture, and memory studies. She has published on topics such as media narratives of migration, digital racism, and visual activism.
