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Locating African europeisk Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations ,
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Locating African European Studies
Drawing on a rik lineage of anti-discriminatory scholarship, art, and activism, Locating African europeisk Studies engages with contemporary and historical African europeisk formations, positionalities, politics, and cultural productions in europe. Locating African European Studies reflects on the meanings, objectives, and contours of this field. Twenty-six activists, academics, and artists cover a bred range of topics, fängslande with processes of affiliation, discrimination, and resistance. They negotiate the methodological foundations of the field, explore different meanings and politics of “African” and “ European”, and investigate African European representations in literature, film, photography, art, and other media. In three thematic sections, the book focusses on: • • •
African europeisk social and historical formations African europe
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EMPIRE LINES
In this special episode, EMPIRE LINES returns to Ingrid Pollard’s exhibition, Carbon Slowly Turning, the first major survey of her career photographing Black experiences beyond the city and urban environments, in the English countryside. It marks the artist’s participation in Invasion Ecology, a season of contemporary land art across South West England in summer , questioning what we mean by ‘native’ and what it means to belong.
Since the s, artist Ingrid Pollard has explored how Black and British identities are socially constructed, often through historical representations of the rural landscape. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Ingrid draws on English and Caribbean photographic archives, with works crossing the borders of printmaking, sculpture, audio, and video installations. Their practice confronts complex colonial histories, and their legacies in our contemporary lived experiences, especially concerning race, sexuality, and identity.
Curated by the artist and Gil
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Introduction: African European studies as a critique of contingent belonging
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Emily Ngubia Kessé is currently captivated by life, and it is her vision to get a grip on the ropes that make it work. She strives to understand the anatomy of racism, including how it is established and systematically propagated through and within higher education. To this effect, she has published two books, written articles, and given numerous lectures and workshops. She is skilled in establishing networks between public and private sectors, moving between diverse disciplinary landscapes, and working in dynamic spaces where innovative-creative solutions are required, bolstered by her experience as Chief Marketing Officer for a tech startup. Additionally, she is co-founder of two successful organisations. Prior to her work in the private sector, Kessé worked for several years as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the chair of Profex Lann Hornscheidt at t