Outlining the agenda The idea of equal treatment is essential to the self-conception of democratic societies: the rule of law promises protection against arbitrary disadvantages. However, contemporary social reality is still haunted by forms of discrimination. Often, discrimination goes unnoticed, is tacitly tolerated or even endorsed. The global Black Lives Matter movement starkly revealed this contradiction, thus […]
CFP: Special Issue of Wagadu on racialization.spectacle.liberation (deadline: Nov. 15, 2019)
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies Title of Special Issue: racialization.spectacle.liberation. Guest Editors: Chriss Sneed and S.M. Rodriguez “There is a continuous temptation to think of race as an essence, as something fixed, concreate, and objective. And there is also an opposite temptation: to imagine race as a mere illusion, a purely […]
CFP: Critically Sick: New Phenomenologies of Illness, Madness, and Disability (deadline: Oct. 15, 2019)
Special Issue of Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology Guest editors: Emily R. Douglas (McGill University) and Corinne Lajoie (Penn State University) Puncta is seeking new work for a special issue on critical phenomenologies of sickness, madness, and disability. A cursory search for scholarly work explicitly addressing the intersections of phenomenology and mad and disability scholarship […]
CFP: The Race-Religion Constellation: Entanglements in African Political Communities (deadline: Sept. 21, 2019)
Special Issue of The South African Journal of Philosophy (July 2020) Guest Editors: Josias Tembo and Anya Topolski The reality of political communities in Africa cannot be understood properly independently of colonial racialization. The formation of colonial political communities on the African continent, as Fanon has shown, was premised on a Manichean world view, a […]
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Montgomery, Alabama) and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) (UPDATED*)
In early November, I gave a guest lecture and informal seminar at the University of Alabama. I had been invited by Utz McKnight, who is the Chair of Gender and Race Studies and Professor of Political Science at U of A. On the day before these events, Utz took me to (among other places) the […]
