Sotto il prisma di Stuart Hall. Esercizi di analisi collettiva della colonialità del presente in Italia e in Europa

Miguel Mellino

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-360-8

Sotto il prisma di Stuart Hall. Esercizi di analisi collettiva della colonialità del presente in Italia e in Europa

Authors

Miguel Mellino

University of Naples - L'Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-360-8

Keywords:

Critical pedagogy, coloniality, racism, university, education, migration, securitarianism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, citizenship

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 146

Language: Italian

Abstract: The volume emerges from a collective pedagogical experience at the Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, where students enrolled in the MA programme Identity Processes and Global Scenarios developed a theoretical and political reflection on the thought of Stuart Hall, ten years after his death. The essays collected here constitute exercises in analysing the “coloniality of the present” in Italy and Europe, conceived not as conventional academic papers but as practices of shared and processual thinking. The project draws inspiration from the model of the Working Papers of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, privileging the collective dimension of knowledge production and the situated translation of Hall’s concepts. The editor’s role intervenes only as a form of philological and formal “punctuation” within a work that belongs entirely to the students, who are the authors both of the essays and of their interpretative directions.The book positions itself as a critical response to the “banking model of education” denounced by Paulo Freireand to the growing neoliberalization of the university, marked by the corporatization of knowledge, quantitative evaluation systems, and the standardized use of pedagogical devices such as PowerPoint. Drawing also on the work of bell hooks, Henry Giroux, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière, the volume advocates a dialogical, participatory, and decolonial pedagogy capable of restoring subjectivity and agency to students, while reclaiming the university as a space for critical and collective formation. Taken as a whole, Under the Prism of Stuart Hall is both a testimony and a political act: an attempt to reopen the possibility of an “other language” within the neoliberal university, a “murmur” — to borrow the expression of Roland Barthes — that resists managerial and market-oriented language, and restores to Hall’s thought its most vital function: that of serving as an instrument for the critical decoding of the contemporary world.

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Author Biography

Miguel Mellino, University of Naples - L'Orientale

Miguel Mellino is an Associate Professor and teaches “Postcolonial Studies and Interethnic Relations” at the University of Naples L'Orientale . His research focuses on the relationships between colonialism, capitalism, racism, and migration, as well as on postcolonial theory, Black radical political theory and Latin American political thought. Among his publications are: Marx nei margini. Dal marxismo nero al femminismo postcoloniale (Alegre 2020), Governare la crisi dei rifugiati. Sovranismo, neoliberalismo, razzismo e accoglienza in Europa (Deriveapprodi 2019), Stuart Hall: Cultura, Razza e Potere (ombre corte 2015), Cittadinanze Postcoloniali. Appartenenze, razza e razzismo in Italia e in Europa (Carocci, 2012), Post-Orientalismo. Said e gli studi postcoloniali (Meltemi, 2009); La Cultura e il Potere. Conversazione sui Cultural Studies (Con Stuart Hall, Meltemi, 2006), e La Critica Postcoloniale. Decolonizzazione, capitalismo e Cosmopolitismo nei Postcolonial Studies (Meltemi, 2005). È stato inoltre il curatore degli scritti politici di Frantz Fanon, L'anno V della rivoluzione algerina (Deriveapprodi, 2007) e Per la rivoluzione africana (Deriveapprodi 2006), di Discorso sul Colonialismo di Aimé Césaire (ombre corte, 2010),di Black Marxism.Genealogia della tradizione radicale nera (Alegre, 2023) di Cedric Robinson, e di Il colonialismo è un sistema. Colonialismo, neocolonialismo e postcolonialismo, di Jean-Paul Sartre (2024).