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In our (my) ongoing series on defining buzzwords, I give you today a pinch of postcolonialism. Hito Steyerl, who will also be at the PROLOGUE-BLN seminar, wrote “Can the Subaltern speak German?” in 2001. A longer version is published in a book with the same title together with texts from Patricia Alleyne-Dettmers, Maria do Mar Castro Varela, Luzenir Caixeta, Nikita Dhawan, Fatima El Tayeb, Umut Erel, Grada Ferreira, Cathy S. Gelbin, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Anil K. Jain, Kien Nghi Ha, Annette Seidel-Arpaci, Shirley Tate and Tanya Ury.
“[…] the analysis of postcolonial, feminist, and anti-racist critique means paying attention to the geographical and political context, in which this critique is produced and through which it is formed.”
Hito Steyerl: Can the Subaltern speak German? Postcolonial Critique (in English)
(The German original can be found here)

As with the other blog entries in the “What is” category this is not meant as a definite definition but an ongoing collection of resources of terms.