[Liuhum] Book Launch - "Narratives of Unsettlement" by Madina Tlostanova (April 13, Zoom)

[Ruben Hordijk]

Book launch: Madina Tlostanova, Narratives of Unsettlement: Being Out-of-Joint as Generative Human Condition (Routledge, 2023)

Thursday April 13 from 20.30 CEST (online)

You are hereby warmly invited to join the book launch for Madina Tlostanova's Narratives of Unsettlement: Being Out-of-joint as a Generative Human Condition (Routledge, 2023) over Zoom on Thursday, April 13 from 20.30 (CEST).

REGISTRATION:
Please register to participate: https://forms.office.com/e/u7xQUY4Swt<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fe%2Fu7xQUY4Swt&h=AT0RyDAXL9rP6gp-poQEl7iaK1jTtYtVh-Fip1WnFECS9wvLI5UyX1ZiMAUFC2sud_TuC-DEKCLi3V5XkbYyinM57Q6BI6e-yS2q81RALga81g16kV6zXrtm1S2VND6pNMFomZYeQMRCdw1i0hyQ&__tn__=q&c%5b0%5d=AT06QrTZ6ebqqqaqaS41tL1j-HxWonnD37bL8UtuxoATopiO4TmStMfYomniOK5prOPj27gRtWxhGM-c_d4YbyG9eHEz2TGfm4RWdsW_CF74dkqZmkeb-OZzjGn1Of-aZKY>
The Zoom link will be distributed to all registered participants a few days before.

WHAT ARE YOU UNSETTLED ABOUT? Is it good or necessary to be settled? Can unsettlement generate other ways of worlding, other paths to re-existence? Arguably one of the recurrent human conditions, physical and psychological, existential and political unsettlement begs for reflection and acts as a key to understanding of the present crisis and possible ways to refuturing. The monograph that has been officially released on March 17, 2023, within the Book Series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, uses an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to reflect on the relational complexity of unsettlement as a predominant sensibility of the present époque. Narratives of Unsettlement tackle interrelated aspects of unsettlement including temporality, the disconcerting effects of the Anthropocene, the biomedical facets of unsettlement, and the post-pandemic futures. It uses a chimeric approach combining essayistic and speculative fiction writing methods, negotiating rational, affective and imaginative ways of inquiry, and showing rather than merely explaining. The book poses questions, but gives no ready-made answers, and invites us to think together on the unsettlement as a negatively global human condition that can be collectively made into a generative move of resurgence and refuturing. Contributing to critical reflections on the main features and sensibilities of the current époque, Narratives of Unsettlement will be of interest to scholars and undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the general public, interested in critical global and future perspectives, in decolonial research, gender studies, and posthumanities.

MADINA TLOSTANOVA is a Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms at Linköping University, Sweden. She has written widely on existential, epistemic, gender and aesthetic aspects of coloniality and decoloniality, on the intersections of the post-socialist and postcolonial human conditions, fiction and arts over the past twenty years. Her recent books include Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re- existence (2017), What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (2018), A New Political Imagination: Making the Case (2020, co-authored with Tony Fry).

We are honoured to have the following SPEAKERS talk about different aspects of the themes the book raises:

Nina Lykke, Linköping Univ, Sweden & Aarhus Univ., Denmark, Co-Editor of the Book Series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
Alice Feldman, University College Dublin
Anne-Marie Willis, Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania
Luigi Cazzato, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
Redi Koobak, University of Strathclyde
The conversation will be moderated by Lidia Zhigunova (Tulane University)

The event is scheduled at 20.30 (CEST) and will go on for about one hour and a half.

Please join us for the zoom book launch and share your narratives of unsettlement!

Organized by Nina Lykke, Co-editor of the Book Series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

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