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

在后殖民主义、非殖民主义和女权主义以及跨学科的批判性战争研究的交集下，该研究项目试图通过集合思维的视角，分析帝国战争、殖民主义、非殖民主义和意大利非洲关系中的长期斗争中的死亡，以期解锁对具体化、运动、战争和暴力的理解。这项研究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，该研究项目提出的问题是，当我们错误地看待从19世纪末到今天在殖民想象和帝国内出现的特定死亡集合体时，我们如何对战争、暴力和历史进行理论化。在这一点上，通过对死亡的一种可能性进行历史化和描绘，我将其划分为一个由空间、时间、物质和意义组成的可塑性、不断波动和非分割的网络组成的集合体。为此，探索和汇编死亡的文本、视觉、客观、空间和概念表征，将成为了解殖民暴力和战争的宏观运作的分析之门，下一步，历史(或对其置之不理)和现代性将被放大。其目的是对意大利-非洲关系中的抽象、知识生产、擦除和沉默进行认识论的解构，这些抽象、知识生产、抹杀和沉默源于死亡、身体和承载死亡的殖民地产生的想象、现实和虚构。

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.