RITA – Revue Interdisciplinaire de Travaux sur les Amériques invites researchers in the Humanities to submit original articles for the special issue "De-linking: Anti-, Post-, and Decolonial Perspectives in the Arts and Media Culture in the Global Space (20th–21st Centuries)", edited by Thales Reis Alecrim and Bruno Guaraldo de Paula Silveira. Submissions are welcome in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or English until October 15, 2025.
This issue seeks to gather interdisciplinary investigations that mobilize anti-colonial, post-colonial, and decolonial theories in the analysis of artistic, cultural, and media practices in the 20th and 21st centuries. We are especially interested in highlighting how these approaches shed light on forms of resistance, creation, and cultural reinvention that challenge the Eurocentric paradigms still dominant in epistemologies, cultural policies, and aesthetic production on a global scale.
Rather than merely encouraging theoretical discussion, this special issue aims to illuminate the praxis of these schools of thought by bringing together case studies that demonstrate how visual arts, literature, cinema, music, periodicals, digital media, and other cultural expressions have functioned as vehicles for critique, emancipation, and reimagining of historically subalternized worlds.
Inspired by thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Edward Said, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Achille Mbembe, Aníbal Quijano, Walter Mignolo, and Arturo Escobar, this special issue encourages critical debates on the role of art and media culture in deconstructing colonial narratives, rewriting history from peripheral perspectives, and building a pluriversal world, one capable of embracing multiple ways of being, knowing, and living.
Researchers from various fields—including history, literature, cultural studies, arts, anthropology, communication, sociology, philosophy, and others—are encouraged to submit reflections that challenge established canons and broaden the critical horizon of the Humanities and the Arts. Innovative methodological approaches and studies on the transnational circulation of counter-hegemonic ideas, narratives, and aesthetics are also welcome.
Submissions must be made through the RITA website, following the editorial guidelines available at:
http://www.revue-rita.com/note-aux-auteurs/normes-de-presentation.html
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