Mors tua, vita mea: Colonial Imaginaries, Embodiment, and Necroassemblages in Italo-African Relations

Mors tua, vita mea：意大利与非洲关系中的殖民想象、具体化和死亡组合

• 批准号: 2909075
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2909075
• 关键词: Mors; tua; vita; mea; Colonial

At the intersection of postcolonial, decolonial, and feministIR and interdisciplinary critical war studies, the researchproject seeks to analyse death in the longue durée ofimperial wars, colonialism, decolonisation, and migration inItalo-African relations through the lens of assemblagethinking, with a view of unlocking understandings ofembodiment, movement, war, and violence. With aparticular focus on Italy and its relations with Ethiopia,Eritrea, Libya, and Somalia, the research project asks howwe can theorise war, violence, and history when we takeseriously the emergence of a specific necroassemblagewithin colonial imaginaries and empire from the late 19thcentury to today. In this regard, by historicising andmapping out one possibility of what death becomes, I teaseit out as an assemblage comprised of malleable, everfluctuating, and not-compartmentalised webs of space,time, materiality, and meaning. To this end, exploring andassembling textual, visual, objectual, spatial, andconceptual representations of death will function as theanalytic door into the macro workings of colonial violenceand war, and, in a next step, history (or the disregardthereof) and modernity writ large. The aim is an epistemicdeconstruction of the abstraction, knowledge production,erasures, and silences emanating from death, dead bodies,and death-bearing colonially produced imaginaries,realities, and fictionalities in Italo-African relations.

在后殖民、非殖民化、女权主义和跨学科批判性战争研究的交叉点上，该研究项目试图通过综合思维的视角分析帝国战争、殖民主义、非殖民化和意大利-非洲关系中移民的长期发展过程中的死亡，以期解开对体现、运动、战争和暴力的理解。该研究项目特别关注意大利及其与埃塞俄比亚、厄立特里亚、利比亚和索马里的关系，当我们认真对待从19世纪末到今天的殖民想象和帝国中出现的特定墓地组合时，我们如何将战争、暴力和历史理论化。在这方面，通过历史化和描绘出死亡的一种可能性，我把它梳理成一个由空间、时间、物质性和意义组成的可塑的、不断波动的、不可分割的网络的集合。为此，对死亡的文本、视觉、客观、空间和概念表现形式的探索和组合，将成为进入殖民暴力和战争宏观运作的分析之门，并在下一步，进入历史（或无视其）和现代性。其目的是对意大利-非洲关系中产生的抽象、知识生产、抹除和沉默的认知解构，这些抽象、知识生产、抹除和沉默源于死亡、尸体和殖民时期产生的想象、现实和虚构。