December 2006
Trinh T. Minh-ha essay
by jlesageNot You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha
November 2006
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
by jlesageGeography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
Senses of Cinema
by jlesageone of the best online film journals; exhaustive and regularly updated links page
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
by jlesageBraidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
by jlesage"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
Homi Bhabha - Excerpts
by jlesageexcerpts from postcolonial scholar's major works, also bibliography, links, other material
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith
by jlesageentire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
by jlesagevery large bibliography on Critical Whiteness Studies, broken down into various categories; not interactive and does not lead to full text essays; worth going to the library to follow up on
The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference
by jlesageby Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
by jlesagean important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies
by jlesagehuge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies
October 2006
Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
by jlesagecurrent issue has free articles, progressive social geography
Movement by Grigorio Agamben
by jlesageauthor traces concept of movement from Aristotle and asks us to "rethink the concept of movement and its relation to biopolitics."
Professor Stephen Graham - Writing & Publication
by jlesageleft urban geographer, with many online writings, often with an international focus
TRANSFORMATIONS
by jlesage"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"
multilingual web journal
by jlesagecheck out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"
Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch)
by jlesageupdated 2006. Topics include historical periods for British and U.S. Literature, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature & Feminism, Ethnicities & Nationalities, Hypertext
Carnival of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
by jlesageaccumulation of blog entries on important postcolonial theorist
Cultural Studies Central
by jlesagelast updated, 2002; a plan and partial execution of a clearinghouse, discussion formum, journal
re-public: re.imagining democracy
by jlesagee-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective
Kali Tal - Reviews: Lisa Nakamura: Lisa Nakamura, "Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet"
by jlesageKali Tal is a major writer on trauma literature and film; this essay appears on her blog.
"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet"
by jlesagemajor essay by Lisa Nakamura
September 2006
Film Bibliographies: Media Resources Center UCB
by jlesageGood place to start research for both scholars and students, comprehensive resource collection for film studies at UC-Berkeley: Bibliographies here for many film/TV Topics,Themes, Genres, Directors; on National Cinemas; and on Individual Films/Videos; Ful
Film Studies Resources - Academic Info
by jlesageuseful site with lots of resources: bibliographies, "digital library" links, academic programs listed; full text artices; Online Film Collections, Archives, Themes: women, genre, theory; Film History, silent and sound eras, International--by region; Indiv