December 2006
Trinh T. Minh-ha essay
by jlesageNot You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha
November 2006
Miradas--in Spanish
by jlesageextensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
Senses of Cinema
by jlesageone of the best online film journals; exhaustive and regularly updated links page
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
by jlesageBraidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
by jlesage"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
Homi Bhabha - Excerpts
by jlesageexcerpts from postcolonial scholar's major works, also bibliography, links, other material
The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference
by jlesageby Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
by jlesagean important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies
by jlesagehuge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies
Project Premises : Sed : A Trail of Thirst
by jlesagehypertext and visual arts project on southwest US and politics of the border; extensive essay with incorporated artistic material; new vision of documentary media, visual ethnography
October 2006
Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
by jlesagecurrent issue has free articles, progressive social geography
Movement by Grigorio Agamben
by jlesageauthor traces concept of movement from Aristotle and asks us to "rethink the concept of movement and its relation to biopolitics."
TRANSFORMATIONS
by jlesage"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"
multilingual web journal
by jlesagecheck out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"
Carnival of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
by jlesageaccumulation of blog entries on important postcolonial theorist
Cultural Studies Central
by jlesagelast updated, 2002; a plan and partial execution of a clearinghouse, discussion formum, journal
re-public: re.imagining democracy
by jlesagee-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective
Kali Tal - Reviews: Lisa Nakamura: Lisa Nakamura, "Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet"
by jlesageKali Tal is a major writer on trauma literature and film; this essay appears on her blog.
"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet"
by jlesagemajor essay by Lisa Nakamura
September 2006
De una de las mujeres que amo. | Negra cubana... tenĂa que ser
by jlesageCuban woman's blog with article about the representation of black women in advertising, in Spanish
Film Bibliographies: Media Resources Center UCB
by jlesageGood place to start research for both scholars and students, comprehensive resource collection for film studies at UC-Berkeley: Bibliographies here for many film/TV Topics,Themes, Genres, Directors; on National Cinemas; and on Individual Films/Videos; Ful
Film Studies Resources - Academic Info
by jlesageuseful site with lots of resources: bibliographies, "digital library" links, academic programs listed; full text artices; Online Film Collections, Archives, Themes: women, genre, theory; Film History, silent and sound eras, International--by region; Indiv
June 2006
EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
by jlesagelarge bibliography with links to many full text essays--american studies, critical legal studies, literature, marxism, media, popular culture, postcolonialism, queer, race, women's studies
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