Watch recording here:

https://youtu.be/z8Ohu0xQVcY

Speakers:

Saliou Dione (University of Dakar - Senegal)

Beatriz Polivanov (UFF- Brazil)

Beatriz Medeiros (UFF - Brazil)

Deborah Santos (UFF - Brazil)

Ahmed Correa (University of California - USA)

Ludmila Morales Alfonso (University of Salamanca - Spain)

Chair: Ivonne  Sanchez (UNAM) 

 

Description:

Colonization left – and still leaves – deep marks on historical, social, and cultural processes in countries around the world. Migration flows and the diaspora of certain social groups are part of its consequence over territories and bodies. In this panel, we will discuss diasporic movements within the South - focusing on Latin America and Africa - and how they influence territories and identities, producing new epistemologies (Mignolo, 2000) that affect the contemporary global order. From the formation of "discomforting territories" (Resende, 2018) we look at migration within / between these continents - either forced or intentional - as a series of processes that have a direct influence on people’s identities and existences in their respective countries, complexifying layers of oppression, as well as the creation of counter-narratives and epistemologies. Following an intersectional perspective (Crenshaw, 1989), we understand that crossroads between race, gender, nationality, among others will also affect migrants in different ways. These processes create the possibility of thinking about performed territories that influence the bodies and the modes of being South (Resende, Robalinho, Amaral, 2020), as much as the performing bodies influence territories. We propose a look at resistances and conflicts, and what goes in between, deriving out of different Global Souths. Four papers compose the panel: a) “Colonial Borders and Decolonial Territories in Postcolonial Africa: Between Politics of Otherization and Togetherness”, b) “Little Africa ́s Tales in Social Media: the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora on Instagram”, c) “Juxtaposing Cuban Mobilities: from Colonial Borders to Revolutionary Nationalism” and d) “Cuban Migration to Ecuador in the Face of the COVID-19 Crisis: Borders, Citizenship and Identities”. This panel is part of the PROBRAL / CAPES project intitled “Discomforting Territories: Images, Narratives and Objects of the Global South”.

About:

Saliou Dione is an Associate Professor, a Lecturer and Researcher at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, in Senegal, where he teaches African and Postcolonial Studies. He is currently the Head of the English Department at the University. He holds a Doctorate in African and Postcolonial Studies, a Postgraduate Diploma in American Literature and Civilization, and a Bachelor's Degree in British Literature and Civilization. He has been a Senior Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (USA), hosted by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Rutgers-based Center for African Studies in the United States of America. He has been also a CODESRIA Gender Fellow at the CODESRIA Gender Institute for gender and African Sexuality(ies).

Beatriz Polivanov is a tenured-track professor, lecturer and researcher at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), in Brazil, where she teaches at the Cultural Studies and Media Department, as well as at the Communication Graduate Program. She was a visiting scholar at the Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University from 2019 to 2020. She holds a Doctorate and Master’s degrees in Communication Studies by UFF, and a Bachelor’s degree in Arts by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She is the leader of the research group MiDICom (Digital Media, Identity and Communication) and a fellow researcher with funding from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro State Foundation to Support Research).

Deborah Santos is a PhD candidate, with a scholarship from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), at the Communication Graduate Program at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences by the same institution, and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies by Universidad de La Habana, Cuba. She is a member of the research group MiDICom.

Beatriz Medeiros is a PhD student with a cotutelle agreement between the Communication Graduate Program at Universidade Federal Fluminense, and the Philosophy Faculty (Cultures of the Global South) of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, with a scholarship from both CAPES and DAAD. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences by UFF. She is a member of the research group MiDICom.

Ahmed Correa is a PhD candidate at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at the University of California, Merced. He holds an MA by the same institution, as well as an MA in Sociology by Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales en Ecuador (FLACSO). He holds a Law Degree by Universidad de la Habana.

Liudmila Morales Alfonso is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Sociology and Communication of the University of Salamanca, Spain. She has an MA in Social Sciences, with an academic concentration in Gender and Development by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Ecuador. From 2014 to the present, she has been a visiting professor and editor in the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador.