Performance and Surveillance

July 11, 2022 from 13:00 to 14:15

Room Number: TRS 2-003

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Chair: Jason Sandhar (U Western Ontario)

Speakers:

Shinjini Basu (Sir Gurudas Mahavidyalaya U), “A Rupture Redrawn: Intersection of the Commons and the Prison in Jail Memoirs from Colonial and Post-Colonial India”

Ruth Epochi-Olise Etuwe (Alex Ekweme Federal U), “Clothing as Semiotic Resistance: An Appraisal of the Yoruba ‘Amotekum’”

Sunu Rose Joseph & Shashikantha Koudur (National IT Karnataka), “Colonial Past and Cataclysmic Future – Queer Environments of Anthropocene in An Unkindness of Ghosts and Tentacle

Paper Summaries:

Shinjini Basu (Sir Gurudas Mahavidyalaya U), “A Rupture Redrawn: Intersection of the Commons and the Prison in Jail Memoirs from Colonial and Post-Colonial India”

Reading memoirs of political prisoners from India, I argue that marks of social exclusion and structural violence of the commons are carried over, to determine how the prisoner’s body negotiates with this un-common space. One would also argue the prison is not only a disciplinary domain; it be redrawn as an extension of the exceptional powers of the State.

Ruth Epochi-Olise Etuwe (Alex Ekweme Federal U), “Clothing as Semiotic Resistance: An Appraisal of the Yoruba ‘Amotekum’”

Clothes are a significant source of self-expression; both of individuality and agency as well as an identification and communication tool. The Amotekun costume stands as an index of identity and a non-violent performative weapon that is presently used to redefine the insecurity challenges in Southwest, Nigeria.

Sunu Rose Joseph & Shashikantha Koudur (National IT Karnataka), “Colonial Past and Cataclysmic Future – Queer Environments of Anthropocene in An Unkindness of Ghosts and Tentacle

The paper is an exploration braiding together the colonial past and the unpredictable futures alongside gender in the context of the two selected works of fiction, transcending beyond the heteronormative expectations by investigating the ideas of queerness in framing the recourses to face climate change.