Politics in the Grey Zone: Violence, Complicity and Resistance
Date and Time
28th Jun 2018 09:00
Location
Project Room, 1.06, 50 George Square
The complexities of complicity and responsibility in contexts of systemic oppression continue to confound our capacities of judgement and action. Situated at the intersection of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this workshop explores political theory’s and art’s capacity to shed light on subtle practices of complicity and to unearth the however limited potential for resistance and solidarity.
Papers
Bronwyn Leebaw, UC Riverside: Traces of Hope: Accounts of Rescue, Care, and Gray Zones of Resistance
Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney: The Tick Tick Ticking Time Bomb
Barbara Boswell, University of Cape Town: Between Silence and Complicity: Narratives of Rape in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story, and at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Margaret Atack, Leeds University: 'O vous frères humains’: ethics and the narratives of derision on war and Occupation.
Bogdan Popa, Cambridge University: The Sexual Politics of Complicity: Reading Retro Narratives with 1950's Romanian Realist Socialism
Fiona MacIntosh, Edinburgh University: “Yo preferí no saber” [I preferred not to know]: Narrating Complicity from Within in Martín Kohan’s Dos veces junio (2002) [June twice]’
Maša Mrovle, Edinburgh University: The Grey Zone of Founding: The Ambiguity of New Beginnings and the Political Value of Disappointment
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