[Commlist] CFP: Affective Logics of Coloniality - EISA 2024 European International Studies Association Conference

We would like to draw your attention to our Call for Papers for the 
workshop ‘Affective Logics of Coloniality’, to be held at the 
forthcoming European International Studies Association (EISA) conference 
in Kadir Has University, Istanbul, 3-5 July 2024. We welcome 
contributions from media and communications scholars working on affect 
and emotion in the framework of coloniality/decoloniality. 
https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2024/workshops/ 
<https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2024/workshops/>


Call for Papers: Affective Logics of Coloniality


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Despite the plethora of work on decolonising approaches to knowledge, 
there have been few attempts to map decolonial and postcolonial 
approaches to affect and emotion studies as a field. Within world 
politics, affective logics inform strategies and tactics of domination 
and control, extraction and exploitation, as well as shaping sites of 
solidarity, hope, resistance, and liberation. There has been increasing 
academic interest in the ways in which colonial legacies and practices 
constitute forms of knowledge production and circulations of affect and 
emotions. Innovative work is emerging on decolonising the study of 
particular emotions or affective states, such as shame, empathy, 
intimacy and trauma, across the disciplines of cultural studies, 
international politics and political science, geography, media studies, 
history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and social psychology.


The workshop centres the understanding that colonial violence is not 
confined to the distant past (i.e., colonialism) but persists as 
coloniality: racialized ways of thinking and being associated with, 
although not limited to, Eurocentric global domination. The framework of 
the workshop thus encompasses the ways in which racism and racialisation 
structures affect, emotions and feelings in the present, but also refers 
to colonial structures and practices in historical and contemporary 
formation and to decolonial practices of hope, joy, solidarity and care 
that begin to construct alternative futurities and affective worlds. The 
workshop will engage with the emotional legacies of colonialism and 
their continuing contribution to coloniality, as well as with modes of 
affective solidarity and activism that aim to dismantle these legacies. 
There has been growing interest in challenging and critiquing 
Eurocentric and universalising approaches to emotion and affect in 
recent years in ways that open up dialogue with postcolonial and 
decolonial scholarship. However, there remains a dearth of spaces that 
encourage scholarly encounters between these diverse research projects 
while also foregrounding the challenges they pose to Western-centric 
approaches to the study of affect and emotion. This workshop is intended 
to serve as such a space of encounter.


We are interested in papers approaching these issues through a variety 
of (inter)disciplinary perspectives and methodologies, and across 
different times and spaces/places. We invite papers addressing (but not 
limited to) affect and emotion in relation to the following themes:

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- non-Western inter-state relations and state formation

- colonial lives and afterlives in indigenous politics

- the politics of solidarity, refusal and resistance

- contesting (post)colonial affects in Global Majority countries

- the politics of migration

- memory work and trauma

- sexuality and gender

- populism

- the politics of intimacy and care


*The deadline for abstracts is 5 February, 2024. *

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Please find more details about the workshop 
here:**https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2024/workshops/ 
<https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2024/workshops/>


We look forward to hearing from you. Please do get in touch if you have 
any questions.


Naomi Head (University of Glasgow): (naomi.head /at/ glasgow.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(naomi.head /at/ glasgow.ac.uk)>

Sara Tafakori (University of Leeds): (s.tafakori /at/ leeds.ac.uk)
<mailto:(s.tafakori /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>


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