[spectre] New podcast: Fatima El-Tayeb talks about the need to reassess Europe’s internalist narrative and the discourse of integration

[Radio Web MACBA]

New podcast:
Fatima El-Tayeb talks about the need to reassess Europe’s internalist
narrative and the discourse of integration. She evaluates the role of race
in the construction of this account and argues for the creation and
recovery of archives as a strategy for developing other types of narratives.

http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/fatima-el-tayeb/capsula


Fatima El-Tayeb is associate professor in the departments of literature and
ethnic studies, and Director of the Critical Gender Studies programme at
the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of European
Others. Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, published by the
University of Minnesota Press, and many other essays and papers.

In her work, Fatima speaks out against racial amnesia in Europe, in the
sense of the active suppression of the European origins of the concept of
“race” and of the importance of race in the construction of Europe as we
know it. In this framework, it appears that the concept of race and its
effects are brought in from outside the continent by the racialised
subjects themselves: migrant workers, Muslims, and non-white people in
general.

According to this narrative that Stuart Hall describes as “internalist”,
Europe is a self-sufficient, originating source that sees itself as
spearheading a progressive timeline; while anything outside of the
continent remains seemingly anchored in an earlier time. In this Europe
that ignores its internal processes of racialisation, the European of color
is an impossibility, permanently attached to another place and another time.

*Timeline*
*02:22* Where do you come from? no, but where do you really come from?
*05:05* / Racial amnesia
*07:24* Reassessing Europe's historical narrative
*11:17* Not yet fully human; perpetuating the dominance of the european
model
*14:49* Roma and the rethorics of assimilation
*17:49* The present belongs to another
*19:42* Exclusive and homogeneous communities; reinforcing conservative
positions
*21:38* Queering ethnicity
*24:34* This already happened; the power of archives
*28:29* Hip-hop as an archive; Hamé VS Haneke


Enjoy!
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