Faculty Workshops
The Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 5:
Occupation
Garden Room, Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara
April 25-27, 2009
Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 5: OCCUPATION
Dates: April 25-27, 2009
Venue: Garden Room, Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara
Program:
Saturday, April 25
4:00-6:45 Roundtable: Media and Occupation
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Freya Schiwy, Cristina Venegas, Bhaskar Sarkar
Moderator: Kamala Visweswaran
Readings: Brian Larkin, Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), Introduction, Chapter 7
Suggested Reading: Monroe Price, Media and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2002), Chapter 2
Sunday, April 26
9:00-9:45 Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University
"Intervention/Occupation: Post-Recognition Politics in Australia"
Moderator: Anjali Arondekar
Readings: Elizabeth Povinelli, "The Child in the Broom Closet: States of Killing and Letting Die," South Atlantic Quarterly 107(3): 509-530 (2008)
Irene Watson, "Sovereign Spaces, Caring for Country, and the Homeless
Position of Aboriginal Peoples," South Atlantic Quarterly 108(1): 27-51 (2009)
9:45-10:45 Discussion
10:45-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-1:00 Roundtable Discussion:
Occupation, Dispossession, Ethics
Moderator: Parama Roy
Readings: Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitics”, Public Culture 15 (1), pp. 11-40
Leela Gandhi, “Manifesto,” Affective Communities (Durhan: Duke University Press, 2006)
1:00-2:15 Lunch Break
2:15-3:00 John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh
"The Subaltern and the State”
Moderator: Adriana Johnson
Readings: Álvaro García Linera, “State Crisis and Popular Power”, New Left Review 37, Jan-Feb 2006, 73-85
John Beverley, Subalternity and Representation (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), Chapter 6.
3:00-4:00 Discussion
4:00-4:15 Tea Break
4:15-6:15 Roundtable Discussion:
Subaltern Occupation
Moderator: Horacio Legras
Readings: Martin Luis Guzman, “Zapata's Troops in the Palace,” The Eagle and the Serpent (Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1969)
Danny Hoffman, “The City as Barracks: Freetown, Monrovia, and the Organization of Violence in Post-colonial African Cities, Cultural Anthropology, vol 22 Issue 3, pp. 400-428
Suggested Reading: Ranajit Guha, “Territorialities,” Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999)
Monday, April 27
9:00-12:00 Roundtable:
Nationhood, Territoriality, and Palestine
Richard Falk, Nuha Khoury, Saree Makdisi, Michael Provence
Moderator: David Lloyd
Readings: Saree Makdisi, “Outsides”, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008)
Aziz Al Azmeh, “Nationalism and the Arabs,” Arab Studies Quarterly, vol 17, No. 1, 2 Winter/Spring 1995
Suggested Readings: Robert Blecher, “Citizens without Sovereignty: Transfer and Ethnic Cleansing in Israel,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol 47, no 4 (Oct 2005), pp 725-754
“An Interview with Sadek Jalak Al-Azm,” Journal of Palestine Studies XXVII, no 2 (Winter 1998), pp. 68-80
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