{"id":1276,"date":"2016-12-07T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2016-12-09T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T11:33:22","slug":"tns-seminar-wednesday-14th-december-dr-eleanor-jones-dr-scott-soo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/2016\/12\/07\/tns-seminar-wednesday-14th-december-dr-eleanor-jones-dr-scott-soo\/","title":{"rendered":"TNS Seminar Wednesday 14th December: Dr Eleanor Jones &amp; Dr Scott Soo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2018Death: the end of our stories, or only the beginning?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When: Wednesday 14th December, 5-6.30pm<\/p>\n<p>Where: Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus<\/p>\n<p>Who: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/ml\/about\/staff\/ekj1g16.page\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Eleanor Jones <\/a>&#8211; \u00a0\u2018<em>Death stories: encountering the corpse in narratives of Lusophone Africa\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the earliest days of European maritime expansionism in the fifteenth century, when the unknowability of the territory south of the Sahara inspired terror in the hearts of\u00a0Portuguese crews, to those enduring turn-of-the-millenium photographs of infant famine victims in Sudan, Africa has been synonymous with death in the Western imagination.\u00a0Throughout that period, this Western entanglement of Africa with death has provided a circular justification for the objectification and instrumentalisation of African bodies, as well as\u00a0contributing to the traditional failure of the Western academy to productively theorise the dynamics of power at work on the continent.\u00a0 While more recent theoretical work on mechanisms of power in Africa has successfully recentered death in its methodologies, these analyses often neglect the specificities of the\u00a0Lusophone case, despite the historical characterisation of Portuguese colonialism as, variously, more violent and more intimate \u2014 in short, more embodied \u2014 than any other. With this\u00a0talk, I seek to lay out some starting points for exploring the relationship between Lusophone African coloniality and death, beginning where the two intersect: with the corpse. In\u00a0addition, I seek to present some thoughts on how dead bodies have been used by political and cultural\u00a0actors during the afterlife of colonialism in Lusophone Africa, in ways that have both maintained and disrupted dominant narratives of power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/ml\/about\/staff\/ssoo.page?\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Scott Soo<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; <em>\u2018(Re)moving stories: closure and commemoration at the Gurs internment camp\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Death: the end of our stories, or only the beginning?\u2019 When: Wednesday 14th December, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Eleanor Jones &#8211; \u00a0\u2018Death stories: encountering the corpse in narratives of Lusophone Africa\u2019 From the earliest days of European maritime expansionism in the fifteenth century, when the unknowability of the territory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,4217],"tags":[430960,500,1037877,1037879,271310,1037820,643851],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-africa","tag-colonialism","tag-lusophone","tag-mortality","tag-tns","tag-transnational","tag-transnational-studies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Sp7t-kA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}