The Affect and Colonialism Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Colonial Undercurrents of Early Childhood Interventions
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, international agencies such as the World Bank have begun to fund parenting interventions to improve young children’s brain developm...
The Colonial Lives of Bourgeois Coldness
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The hegemony of the bourgeoisie, its culture and its values, is a central feature of our colonial and capitalist present. But what does it feel like t...
Contesting Colonial Affects in Brazilian Politics
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On January 8, 2023, after Jair Bolsonaro had lost Brazil’s presidential election, hundreds of his supporters stormed the capital to oust the new pre...
The affective lives of colonial economies
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our global economy is fundamentally governed by colonial logics. The resulting power inequalities, ecological destructions, and social corrosions seve...
The colonial affects of environmental racism
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is more and more evident that the world faces an urgent environmental crisis. Global economies, based on colonial imaginaries of progress through r...
Migration and the Feeling of Thinness in the European Metropolis
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the large cities of Europe, millions of people live as first-generation migrants — many of them from the Global South. Often, they are expected t...
Revenge in colonial modernity
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is seen as one of the great achievements of European modernity to have cast out revenge from law and politics. The colonial narrative says: where r...
Die Rache in der kolonialen Moderne
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Es gilt als eine zentrale moderne Errungenschaft, die Rache aus Politik und Recht verbannt zu haben. Die koloniale Erzählung besagt: wo die Rache reg...
The colonial affects of secular Europe
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Although European societies promise religious freedom, non-Christians remain subject to considerable discrimination. In this context, it is mostly tak...
The visual politics of affect in suicide attacks
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suicide attacks, in which fighters are willing to sacrifice their own life to commit an act of violence, have a long political history. More recently,...
The affects of colonial collections
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over many years, Europeans have taken cultural artifacts from the colonies to European museums. Recently, many passionately struggle to give these obj...
The practices and affects of decolonial filmmaking
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since their inception as an artform, films have been structured by a colonial way of seeing. Specific arrangements and depictions of bodies reproduce ...
The affective politics of media in Bolsonaro Brazil
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since Jair Bolsonaro has become president of Brazil, old sentiments of white supremacy are on the rise. To articulate their protest, indigenous and bl...
Trailer
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Colonialism is not only a thing of the past. It affects people all over the world, in the north and the south of our globe, every day. Colonialism can...