Ponzanesi
Biographic Data
| ID | 22193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ponzanesi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ponzanesi |
| SIGNATURE | PONZANESI |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2085-1094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Postcolonial Intellectuals
This article focuses on the life writing narratives of diasporic writers in Europe, such as the Italian writer of Somali descent Igiaba Scego, who, through her writing and public role, manages to create powerful interventions on issues of belonging, diversity, and creativity, contributing to a renewed understanding of gender knowledge and cultures of equalities in localized as well as global contexts. This article focuses on her role as a writer …
Digital/Postcolonial Belongings. Migration, Digital Practices & the Everyday
This article focuses on how migrants appropriate and integrate digital technologies into their everyday lives to manage their local and transnational networks of belonging as media users. It aims to analyse the various forms of cosmopolitan belonging that cut across borders and media platforms. These practices counter the media representations of the recent migration crisis in Europe, where the voices of migrants have often been erased, silenced …
Creating Europe from the Margins
This edited volume centres on how the idea of Europe can be explored by focusing on Europe’s margin. It inquires critically into the relations and tensions in the Global South/Global North divide and the internal differentiation within Europe itself (Southern, Eastern, Northern Europe) and across and within the different nation-states. While recent discussions of migration and Europe and of Fortress Europe seem to assume the concept of Europe as …
Digital Diasporas
This commentary proposes a reorientation of diaspora studies towards new configurations of participation and identification. Digital media affordances in this sense are just such new configurations that enable, sustain and multiply diasporic encounters through social media platforms, digital devices and infrastructures. The emerging digital diasporas do not oppose or replace traditional diasporas, but on the contrary further expand and transform …
Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday
This special issue explores the role that digital technology plays in the lives of migrants. It does so by paying close attention to governmental and supranational organizations as well as to subjective and affective dimensions of the everyday. Digital migration practices emerge as complex negotiations in the digital media sphere between infrastructural bias and agential opportunities, contesting racial practices as well as enabling digitally med…
Postcolonial intellectuals
The aim of this special issue is to gauge the impact of postcolonial intellectuals in contemporary Europe from a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective. This is achieved by challenging the divide between public and private, inclusion and exclusion, and citizens and migrants, thereby creating counterpublics where sexual, ethnic, religious and other minorities stake their claims and play out their actions. For this purpose, the special issue…
Trump and the Death of the Image
Digital Diasporas
This essay revisits the notion of diaspora in connection with recent advancements in communication technologies, which have led to the formation of ‘digital diasporas’. The focus is on digital migrants as ‘connected users’, and therefore as participants in social media platforms. Though there is no consensus on what digital diaspora means exactly because it depends on its many disciplinary takes and media-specific variations, such as ‘e-diasporas…
Digital Cosmopolitanism
This article interrogates new forms of digital cosmopolitanism(s) by introducing a critical postcolonial framework that allows an investigation of how digital connectivity operates in the everyday lives of migrants. We are talking today not of the disenfranchised but of the “connected migrant” (Diminescu 2008), a new citizen of the world, who is both rooted and routed, and whose global interactions are marked by the use of social networks. This a…
Migrancy and digital mediations of emotion
This collection brings together key themes that integrate the scholarship on migration, digital media, and emotion. Drawing from a variety of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological traditions that cross-cut academic disciplines, the articles in this issue explore the emotional facets of digitally mediated migrant socialities in a variety of socio-cultural and geographic locales. These examinations raise important questions about how digital …
Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age
This article charts new directions in digital media and migration studies from a gendered, postcolonial, and multidisciplinary perspective. In particular, the focus is on the ways in which the experience of displacement is resignified and transformed by new digital affordances from different vantage points, engaging with recent developments in datafication, visualization, biometric technologies, platformization, securitization, and extended reali…
Diaspora and mapping methodologies
There is a methodological tendency in work on diaspora and digital media for quantitative investigations to approach diaspora in static ways that contrast with theories of diaspora as a dynamic cultural formation. On the other hand, qualitative, ethnographic work tends not to engage with digital methods and quantitative data-driven investigation. In this article, we sketch this methodological and disciplinary disconnect and address it by proposin…
Connected migrants
Taking a cue from Dana Diminescu’s seminal manifesto on “the connected migrant,” this special issue introduces the notions of encapsulation and cosmopolitanism to understand digital migration studies. The pieces here present a nonbinary, integrated notion of an increasingly digitally mediated cosmopolitanism that accommodates differences within but also recognizes Europe’s colonial legacy and the fraught postcolonial present. Of special interest …
Mediating migration
Review of Mediating migration, by Radha S. Hegde, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2016, 161 pp.\n(paperback), ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4633-6
On the Waterfront
This essay deals with the role of postcolonial cinema in articulating and visualizing issues of migration, uprooting and alienation, with specific relation to Europe and the Southern Mediterranean shore. Cinema as a transnational medium is particularly suitable for conveying denunciation and social critique. Yet this must be combined with an understanding of how the different cinematic traditions and genres contribute, in specific aesthetic and e…
The Point of Europe
In The Point of Europe contributors ask the question whether or not Europe – what is called ‘Europe’ as a geographic, geopolitical, historical entity whose definition was never unambiguous and will never be, but which nevertheless signals a unique crystallisation of traditions and conflicts – has in recent years crossed a defining limit in its relationship to its own past. They consider this question in particular in relation to Europe's colonial…
Edges of Empire
This essay explores the rather neglected case of Italian colonialism, and in particular, the ways in which colonial traces still linger on in Italian contemporary representations, reconfirming or transforming stereotypes and prejudices regarding issues of otherness, ethnicity, and sexuality, which are specific to the Italian case. Although Italian colonialism is subject to denial and oblivion, it is important to account for a growing postcolonial…
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It unearths the role of literary prizes, the a
On digital crossings in Europe
‘On digital crossings in Europe’ explores the entanglements of digital media and migration beyond the national and mono-ethnic focus. We argue how borders, identity and affectivity have been destabilized and reconfigured through medium-specific technological affordances, opting for a comparative and postcolonial framework that focuses on diversity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aspirations. Internet applications make it possible to sustain new …
Gender, globalization, and violence
Introduction: New Frames of Gendered Violence Sandra Ponzanesi Part I: Conflict Zones: Colonial Haunting and Contested Sovereignties 1. Neoliberal Discourses on Violence: Monstrosity and Rape in Borderland War Jolle Demmers 2. Thin Ice: Postcoloniality and Sexuality in the Politics of Citizenship and Military Service Vron Ware 3. American Humanitarian Citizenship: The Soft Power of Empire Inderpal Grewal 4. Female Suicide Bombers and the Politics…
Digital faiths
Postcolonial Cinema Studies
Introduction, Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller Part I Cinemas of Empire Introduction to Part I, Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller 1. Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema: Kif Tebbi, the Conquest of Libya, and the Assault on the Nomadic, Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2. Blackface, Faciality, and Colony Nostalgia in 1930s Empire Films, Julie Codell 3. The Socialist Historical Film, Aniko Imre Part II Postcolonial Cinemas: Unframing Histories Introduction to…
Digital Multiculturalism in the Netherlands
This article focuses on digital practices of Moroccan-Dutch adolescents in the Netherlands. The digital sphere is still rather understudied in the Netherlands. However, it offers a unique, entry to intersecting issues of religiosity, ethnicity and gender as well as to their implications for thinking about multiculturalism from new vantage points. What do digital practices such as online discussion board participation tell us about identity and mu…
The Non-Places of Migrant Cinema in Europe
This article focuses on the representation of ‘non-places’ in European migrant cinema. Postcolonial subjects, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are often depicted in non-places such as city outskirts, hotels, detention centres, on the open sea or in airports. Through the analysis of Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort (UK, 2000), Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things (UK, 2002), and Mohsen Melliti's Io, l'altro (I, the Other, Italy, 2007), migrant…
Digital Multiculturalism in the Netherlands
This article focuses on digital practices of Moroccan-Dutch adolescents in the Netherlands. The digital sphere is still rather understudied in the Netherlands. However, it offers a unique, entry to intersecting issues of religiosity, ethnicity and gender as well as to their implications for thinking about multiculturalism from new vantage points. What do digital practices such as online discussion board participation tell us about identity and mu…
Connected migrants
Taking a cue from Dana Diminescu’s seminal manifesto on “the connected migrant,” this special issue introduces the notions of encapsulation and cosmopolitanism to understand digital migration studies. The pieces here present a nonbinary, integrated notion of an increasingly digitally mediated cosmopolitanism that accommodates differences within but also recognizes Europe’s colonial legacy and the fraught postcolonial present. Of special interest …
In the name of Europe
Though that [imperial and colonial] history remains marginal and largely unacknowledged, surfacing only in the service of nostalgia and melancholia, it represents a store of unlikely connections and complex interpretative resources.The imperial and colonial past continues to shape political life in the overdeveloped-but-no-longer-imperial countries.(Gilroy, 2004, p. 2) 'Europe' in a sense is a phantom of the past, a name that 'is history' rather …
Migrancy and digital mediations of emotion
This collection brings together key themes that integrate the scholarship on migration, digital media, and emotion. Drawing from a variety of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological traditions that cross-cut academic disciplines, the articles in this issue explore the emotional facets of digitally mediated migrant socialities in a variety of socio-cultural and geographic locales. These examinations raise important questions about how digital …
Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age
This article charts new directions in digital media and migration studies from a gendered, postcolonial, and multidisciplinary perspective. In particular, the focus is on the ways in which the experience of displacement is resignified and transformed by new digital affordances from different vantage points, engaging with recent developments in datafication, visualization, biometric technologies, platformization, securitization, and extended reali…
On digital crossings in Europe
‘On digital crossings in Europe’ explores the entanglements of digital media and migration beyond the national and mono-ethnic focus. We argue how borders, identity and affectivity have been destabilized and reconfigured through medium-specific technological affordances, opting for a comparative and postcolonial framework that focuses on diversity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aspirations. Internet applications make it possible to sustain new …
Mediated Crossroads
What strikes me about the habits of the people who spend so much time on the Net-well, it's so new that we don't know what will come next-is in fact precisely how niche in character it is. You ask people what nets they are on, and they're all so specialised! The Argentines on the Argentine Net and so forth. And it's particularly the Argentines who are not in Argentina. (Anderson, in Gower, par. 5) The preceding quotation, taken from his 1996 inte…
Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday
This special issue explores the role that digital technology plays in the lives of migrants. It does so by paying close attention to governmental and supranational organizations as well as to subjective and affective dimensions of the everyday. Digital migration practices emerge as complex negotiations in the digital media sphere between infrastructural bias and agential opportunities, contesting racial practices as well as enabling digitally med…
Feminist theory and multiculturalism
Digital Diasporas
This commentary proposes a reorientation of diaspora studies towards new configurations of participation and identification. Digital media affordances in this sense are just such new configurations that enable, sustain and multiply diasporic encounters through social media platforms, digital devices and infrastructures. The emerging digital diasporas do not oppose or replace traditional diasporas, but on the contrary further expand and transform …
Diaspora and mapping methodologies
There is a methodological tendency in work on diaspora and digital media for quantitative investigations to approach diaspora in static ways that contrast with theories of diaspora as a dynamic cultural formation. On the other hand, qualitative, ethnographic work tends not to engage with digital methods and quantitative data-driven investigation. In this article, we sketch this methodological and disciplinary disconnect and address it by proposin…
Edges of Empire
This essay explores the rather neglected case of Italian colonialism, and in particular, the ways in which colonial traces still linger on in Italian contemporary representations, reconfirming or transforming stereotypes and prejudices regarding issues of otherness, ethnicity, and sexuality, which are specific to the Italian case. Although Italian colonialism is subject to denial and oblivion, it is important to account for a growing postcolonial…
The Point of Europe
In The Point of Europe contributors ask the question whether or not Europe – what is called ‘Europe’ as a geographic, geopolitical, historical entity whose definition was never unambiguous and will never be, but which nevertheless signals a unique crystallisation of traditions and conflicts – has in recent years crossed a defining limit in its relationship to its own past. They consider this question in particular in relation to Europe's colonial…
Digital faiths
The Non-Places of Migrant Cinema in Europe
This article focuses on the representation of ‘non-places’ in European migrant cinema. Postcolonial subjects, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are often depicted in non-places such as city outskirts, hotels, detention centres, on the open sea or in airports. Through the analysis of Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort (UK, 2000), Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things (UK, 2002), and Mohsen Melliti's Io, l'altro (I, the Other, Italy, 2007), migrant…
The past holds no terror
Postcolonial intellectuals
The aim of this special issue is to gauge the impact of postcolonial intellectuals in contemporary Europe from a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective. This is achieved by challenging the divide between public and private, inclusion and exclusion, and citizens and migrants, thereby creating counterpublics where sexual, ethnic, religious and other minorities stake their claims and play out their actions. For this purpose, the special issue…
Digital Multiculturalism in the Netherlands
This article focuses on digital practices of Moroccan-Dutch adolescents in the Netherlands. The digital sphere is still rather understudied in the Netherlands. However, it offers a unique, entry to intersecting issues of religiosity, ethnicity and gender as well as to their implications for thinking about multiculturalism from new vantage points. What do digital practices such as online discussion board participation tell us about identity and mu…
Digital Cosmopolitanism
This article interrogates new forms of digital cosmopolitanism(s) by introducing a critical postcolonial framework that allows an investigation of how digital connectivity operates in the everyday lives of migrants. We are talking today not of the disenfranchised but of the “connected migrant” (Diminescu 2008), a new citizen of the world, who is both rooted and routed, and whose global interactions are marked by the use of social networks. This a…
Digital Multiculturalism in the Netherlands
This article focuses on digital practices of Moroccan-Dutch adolescents in the Netherlands. The digital sphere is still rather understudied in the Netherlands. However, it offers a unique, entry to intersecting issues of religiosity, ethnicity and gender as well as to their implications for thinking about multiculturalism from new vantage points. What do digital practices such as online discussion board participation tell us about identity and mu…
Europe in motion
The article focuses on the contested notion of the (new) Europe from the vantage point of migrant cinema. The aim is to explore how cinematic language offers alternative modalities of representation and subjectification in relation to migration, gender and identity. The emphasis of this analysis is on the politics of encounter: how the presumed strangers to Europe are figurations of Europe's othered self while also embodying the material practice…
Writing against the Grain
This article looks at representations of female infibulation in African literary texts, and offers analyses of three such texts: Nawal El Saadawi's The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World (1980), Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) and Sirad S. Hassan's Sette Gocce di Sangue: Due Donne Somale (Seven Drops of Blood: Two Somali Women) (1996). Writing from a location in the West to which we have migrated, this is an attempt to…
The past holds no terror
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture
A Place in the Sun
Reviewed by: A Place in the Sun. Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present Sandra Ponzanesi A Place in the Sun. Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present. Edited by Patrizia Palumbo. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. This captivating collection of essays covers one of the most neglected aspects of Italian cultural history: the Italian colonial enterprise and…
Feminist theory and multiculturalism
Mediated Crossroads
What strikes me about the habits of the people who spend so much time on the Net-well, it's so new that we don't know what will come next-is in fact precisely how niche in character it is. You ask people what nets they are on, and they're all so specialised! The Argentines on the Argentine Net and so forth. And it's particularly the Argentines who are not in Argentina. (Anderson, in Gower, par. 5) The preceding quotation, taken from his 1996 inte…
Digital Multiculturalism in the Netherlands
This article focuses on digital practices of Moroccan-Dutch adolescents in the Netherlands. The digital sphere is still rather understudied in the Netherlands. However, it offers a unique, entry to intersecting issues of religiosity, ethnicity and gender as well as to their implications for thinking about multiculturalism from new vantage points. What do digital practices such as online discussion board participation tell us about identity and mu…
In the name of Europe
Though that [imperial and colonial] history remains marginal and largely unacknowledged, surfacing only in the service of nostalgia and melancholia, it represents a store of unlikely connections and complex interpretative resources.The imperial and colonial past continues to shape political life in the overdeveloped-but-no-longer-imperial countries.(Gilroy, 2004, p. 2) 'Europe' in a sense is a phantom of the past, a name that 'is history' rather …
Transnational Feminism in Film and Media
Transnational Feminism in Film and Media The edited volume of Transnational Feminism in Film and Media is a rare jewel that successfully reaches different scholarly communities at the same time, bu
Communicative Spaces of Their Own
In this article, we argue how instant messaging (IM) is actively made into a communicative space of their own among migrant girls. Triangulating data gathered through large-scale surveys, interviews and textual analysis of IM transcripts, we focus on Moroccan-Dutch girls who use instant messaging as a space where they can negotiate several issues at the crossroads of national, ethnic, racial, age and linguistic specificities. We take an intersect…
Europe in motion
The article focuses on the contested notion of the (new) Europe from the vantage point of migrant cinema. The aim is to explore how cinematic language offers alternative modalities of representation and subjectification in relation to migration, gender and identity. The emphasis of this analysis is on the politics of encounter: how the presumed strangers to Europe are figurations of Europe's othered self while also embodying the material practice…
Postcolonial Cinema Studies
Introduction, Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller Part I Cinemas of Empire Introduction to Part I, Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller 1. Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema: Kif Tebbi, the Conquest of Libya, and the Assault on the Nomadic, Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2. Blackface, Faciality, and Colony Nostalgia in 1930s Empire Films, Julie Codell 3. The Socialist Historical Film, Aniko Imre Part II Postcolonial Cinemas: Unframing Histories Introduction to…
Digital Multiculturalism in the Netherlands
This article focuses on digital practices of Moroccan-Dutch adolescents in the Netherlands. The digital sphere is still rather understudied in the Netherlands. However, it offers a unique, entry to intersecting issues of religiosity, ethnicity and gender as well as to their implications for thinking about multiculturalism from new vantage points. What do digital practices such as online discussion board participation tell us about identity and mu…
The Non-Places of Migrant Cinema in Europe
This article focuses on the representation of ‘non-places’ in European migrant cinema. Postcolonial subjects, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are often depicted in non-places such as city outskirts, hotels, detention centres, on the open sea or in airports. Through the analysis of Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort (UK, 2000), Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things (UK, 2002), and Mohsen Melliti's Io, l'altro (I, the Other, Italy, 2007), migrant…
Digital faiths
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It unearths the role of literary prizes, the a
On digital crossings in Europe
‘On digital crossings in Europe’ explores the entanglements of digital media and migration beyond the national and mono-ethnic focus. We argue how borders, identity and affectivity have been destabilized and reconfigured through medium-specific technological affordances, opting for a comparative and postcolonial framework that focuses on diversity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aspirations. Internet applications make it possible to sustain new …
Gender, globalization, and violence
Introduction: New Frames of Gendered Violence Sandra Ponzanesi Part I: Conflict Zones: Colonial Haunting and Contested Sovereignties 1. Neoliberal Discourses on Violence: Monstrosity and Rape in Borderland War Jolle Demmers 2. Thin Ice: Postcoloniality and Sexuality in the Politics of Citizenship and Military Service Vron Ware 3. American Humanitarian Citizenship: The Soft Power of Empire Inderpal Grewal 4. Female Suicide Bombers and the Politics…
On the Waterfront
This essay deals with the role of postcolonial cinema in articulating and visualizing issues of migration, uprooting and alienation, with specific relation to Europe and the Southern Mediterranean shore. Cinema as a transnational medium is particularly suitable for conveying denunciation and social critique. Yet this must be combined with an understanding of how the different cinematic traditions and genres contribute, in specific aesthetic and e…
The Point of Europe
In The Point of Europe contributors ask the question whether or not Europe – what is called ‘Europe’ as a geographic, geopolitical, historical entity whose definition was never unambiguous and will never be, but which nevertheless signals a unique crystallisation of traditions and conflicts – has in recent years crossed a defining limit in its relationship to its own past. They consider this question in particular in relation to Europe's colonial…
Edges of Empire
This essay explores the rather neglected case of Italian colonialism, and in particular, the ways in which colonial traces still linger on in Italian contemporary representations, reconfirming or transforming stereotypes and prejudices regarding issues of otherness, ethnicity, and sexuality, which are specific to the Italian case. Although Italian colonialism is subject to denial and oblivion, it is important to account for a growing postcolonial…
Mediating migration
Review of Mediating migration, by Radha S. Hegde, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2016, 161 pp.\n(paperback), ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4633-6
Connected migrants
Taking a cue from Dana Diminescu’s seminal manifesto on “the connected migrant,” this special issue introduces the notions of encapsulation and cosmopolitanism to understand digital migration studies. The pieces here present a nonbinary, integrated notion of an increasingly digitally mediated cosmopolitanism that accommodates differences within but also recognizes Europe’s colonial legacy and the fraught postcolonial present. Of special interest …
Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age
This article charts new directions in digital media and migration studies from a gendered, postcolonial, and multidisciplinary perspective. In particular, the focus is on the ways in which the experience of displacement is resignified and transformed by new digital affordances from different vantage points, engaging with recent developments in datafication, visualization, biometric technologies, platformization, securitization, and extended reali…
Diaspora and mapping methodologies
There is a methodological tendency in work on diaspora and digital media for quantitative investigations to approach diaspora in static ways that contrast with theories of diaspora as a dynamic cultural formation. On the other hand, qualitative, ethnographic work tends not to engage with digital methods and quantitative data-driven investigation. In this article, we sketch this methodological and disciplinary disconnect and address it by proposin…
Sociology (30 works) · Political science (20 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Art (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Media studies (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (12 works)