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Bridging postcoloniality, postsocialism, and “race” in the age of Brexit: An interview with Catherine Baker

Baker, Catherine; Koobak, Redi

Authors

Redi Koobak



Contributors

Redi Koobak
Editor

Madina Tlostanova
Editor

Suruchi Thapar-Björkert
Editor

Abstract

In this interview, conducted over two rounds in August 2019 and January 2020, post-Cold War historian and cultural studies scholar Catherine Baker reflects on how she situates her work within the growing literature on intersections between postcoloniality and postsocialism, and the commitment to centering a lens of ‘race’ in postcolonial/postsocialist studies that drove her, in an environment of rising ‘xeno-racism’ in the UK, to revisit the theoretical standpoints of her previous work in the project that became Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial? (2018). The interview continues by exploring how a transnational feminist ethics has influenced her positionality as a white Western and Anglophone woman working at a university in the Global North/West, and the prospects of feminists fighting for a future while having to fight for the recent past not to be erased.

Citation

Baker, C., & Koobak, R. (2021). Bridging postcoloniality, postsocialism, and “race” in the age of Brexit: An interview with Catherine Baker. In R. Koobak, M. Tlostanova, & S. Thapar-Björkert (Eds.), Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice (40-52). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Online Publication Date Mar 22, 2021
Publication Date Mar 23, 2021
Deposit Date Mar 16, 2021
Publicly Available Date Sep 23, 2022
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Pages 40-52
Book Title Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice
Chapter Number 4
ISBN 9781000361469; 9780367434403
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3741691
Publisher URL https://www.routledge.com/Postcolonial-and-Postsocialist-Dialogues-Intersections-Opacities-Challenges/Koobak-Tlostanova-Thapar-Bjorkert/p/book/9780367434403
Contract Date Dec 20, 2020

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