Sticky Objects, Sticky Histories: Colonial Aesthetics, Stereotypes, and the Trouble of Contextualization

Description

This paper takes the recent debates about racial stereotypes and colonial aesthetics in Danish domestic commodity culture as a starting point to discuss how different politics of contextualisation and historicisation shape the objects under debate. By bringing Homi Bhabha's seminal discussion of the stereotype in colonial discourse in dialogue with Sara Ahmed's concept of sticky objects, this presentation seeks to discuss how divergent understandings of "context" and "history" inform the public debate.

Period	18 Mar 2015
Event title	Racialisation and Ethnification: Politics and Problems in Cultural Representations
Event type	Conference
Location	København, DenmarkShow on map