Spaces of New Colonialism

Cameron McCarthy is Communications Scholar and University Scholar in the Department of Educational Policy, Leadership and Organization (EPOL) and in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Koeli Moitra Goel is an independent researcher and writer from Chicago, who also devotes her time to community organizing and filmmaking. She holds a doctorate in Communications and Media from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Ergin Bulut is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koc University, Istanbul and Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University. Warren Crichlow is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, York University. Brenda Nyandiko Sanya is Assistant Professor in Educational Studies, Colgate University. Bryce Henson is an Accountability, Equity, Climate, and Scholarship Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Identity in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.

List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Angharad N. Valdivia: Foreword: Citification, Mediatization, Theme Park-ification of the Contemporary US Midwest University – Cameron McCarthy/Koeli Moitra Goel/Ergin Bulut/Warren Crichlow/Brenda Nyandiko Sanya/Bryce Henson: Introduction: Understanding the Spaces of New Colonialism: The City, the School, and the Museum – Section I: Precarious Entanglements – Saskia Sassen: The City: Its Return as a Lens for Social Theory – Cameron McCarthy/Brenda Sanya/Koeli Moitra Goel: Trading in Multiculture: The City and the University in the Age of Globalization – Bryce Henson: Stage of Exception: Carnaval, Political Violence, and Black Life – Ergin Bulut/Başak Can/Nurçin İleri: Cementing Hegemony in New Turkey: The Construction Spectacle of Istanbul and the Rise of Right-Wing Masculine Populism – Koeli Moitra Goel: The "Megacity" as the Face of 21st-Century India: Rethinking Urban life Beyond the Binaries of Globalism – Section II: Fraught Circuits of Citizenship – Interviewed by: Koeli Moitra Goel/Cameron McCarthy/Susan Akello Ogwal: The Right to the City: Pauline Lipman Interview, University of Illinois-Chicago, November 5, 2018 – Koeli Moitra Goel/Cameron McCarthy: Colonial Pasts and Global Presence in Citadels of Education: Crafting "World-Class" Futures by Digitalizing Traditions – Nubras Samayeen: A Tale of Two Cities: Dhaka’s Urban Imaginary in the Twenty-First Century – Chamee Yang: Seeing the Future in the Mirror of the Past: Technologies of Cultural Governance and the Reclamation of Creative History in Seoul – Section III: Futurities – Stuart Hall: Museums of Modern Art and the End of History – Durell M. Callier: Blackqueer Pedagogy: (Un)making Memory, Citizenship, and Education – Brenda Nyandiko Sanya/Malathi M. Iyengar: Rural Global City: The US Midwestern Land-Grant University as a Palimpsest of Colonialisms – Karla Palma: The Territory as an Extractive Network: A Reading from the Mining Museum – Brad Evans: Landscapes of Violence: Brad Evans’ Interview of John Akomfrah in the Histories of Violence Series – Natalie Fenton: Seeking Resources of Hope for a Different Type of Emancipatory Future? – List of Contributors – Index

“This rich and important collection brings together diverse transnational perspectives to consider some vital questions of our present moment. The essays offer a lucid examination of the ways in which colonial logics are perpetuated by the neoliberal global economy in the entangled spaces of the city, school and the museum. Bridging social domains and disciplines, the collection offers compelling insights and a timely intervention into our understanding of the cultural politics of nationalism and institutional spaces. The book represents global collaborative scholarship at its best.”
—Radha S. Hegde, New York University