Postcolonial Piracy - Einzelansicht

The core idea of this class is to reassess a project that my colleague Anja Schwarz and I completed exactly 10 years ago with the publication of the edited book Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South with Bloomsbury Press. Initially developed around a small conference in Berlin at the Literaturwerkstatt and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the project collected voices from around the globe which argued in different ways how new media (from the 1960s onwards) have changed the cultural practices and economies of different regions in the global South.

In this class, we will discuss how much of what has been theorised in and for the early 2000s still holds 10 years later, and what needs to be rethought following not only rapid media change, but also the policital shifts we have seen. In the sessions before Christmas, we will read and discuss representative essays from the 2014 volume. In the sessions in the new year, students will present group research projects into new phenomena of postcolonial piracy.

all reading for this class will be provided on moodle. The book Postcolonial Piracy (ed. Eckstein and Schwarz) is available open access, e.g. from my dpeartment webpage.

(Group) presentation in class, and individual 1000 word documentation for 3 ECTS (testat).