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SciFi Beyond the West: Futurity in African and Asian Contexts 💫 Symposium July 2019 at @SOAS 💫 Stream at @LSFRC_ September 2020 💫 Special issue out now!

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The special issue is live! Read about how authors and creators from postcolonial contexts expand #scifi and use the future as a realm of creativity and critique. https://t.co/d7KDHz4xY6

[Edinburgh University Press @EdinburghUP]

Our previous special issue of Comparative Critical Studies looks at what it means to imagine and anticipate the future from beyond the West.

Find the full listing of articles, as well as an introduction from editors @TasnimQ and @JulyBlalack, here: https://t.co/8DUa6lSRMu

[Tabea Wilkes @tswilkes21]

Honoured to have contributed to this @SfBeyond special edition, reflecting on the legal personhood and the posthuman in environmental africanfuturism
#scifi #lawandliterature

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Can new interpretations of #yalit and #scifi expand the genre beyond its conventional boundaries? 💫Read how author and scholar @sundialgirl answers these questions based on Philippine literature: 🌟https://t.co/DhLLoeTdwA 💫 [@declshorthand @PittLitProgram @EdinburghUP]

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Watch the music video itself here: https://t.co/udBSEqhcNC

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Read about how the gothic and the futuristic merge to make @YugenBlakrok's music a time-bending vehicle in this paper by @ra_pius of @ZASBasel @UniBasel_en https://t.co/Cy9NT7Fbwc

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By @ActuallyAisha

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Will the future of Delhi being altered after protests against the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act? Aishwarya Subramanian offers a view of the city's shifting borders through #scifi https://t.co/ZxTD3ruNuu

[Aisha @ActuallyAisha]

I have an article in this! Spatiality and protest and the future recent anglophone SF has imagined for Delhi.

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We draw from the work of... @OctaviasBrood @adriennemaree @TadeThompson @Nalo_Hopkinson @PeninsulaMovie @markdery @NisiShawl @HBlasim @phamthikang @JWhitehead204 @botbifo @SaraNAhmed @snarkbat ....among others

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The special issue is live! Read about how authors and creators from postcolonial contexts expand #scifi and use the future as a realm of creativity and critique. https://t.co/d7KDHz4xY6

[Annie Webster @annie_webster13]

Congratulations @TasnimQ and @JulyBlalack! So much hard work and it looks amazing!! Looking forward to reading the full issue that emerged from the wonderful @SfBeyond. 💫🌟💥

[Annie Webster @annie_webster13]

New article out now and free to access! A reading of future ruins imagined in Iraq+100 by @commapress, thinking through different chronologies & poetics of ruination and how they spark sentiments of 'solastalgia'. Part of new special issue by @SfBeyond 💫

https://t.co/4DZBXgvt64

[LYU Guangzhao @LyuGuangzhao]

This is finally out 😍 inspired by my presentations at @SfBeyond and @LSFRC_ conferences in 2019 (yeah before covid, feeling like a century ago...). Many thanks to @TasnimQ @JulyBlalack who made this special issue possible despite the pandemic!

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How did a #dystopian universe become the 'Bible' for survival in under capitalism? @LyuGuangzhao examines the reception of Liu Cixin’s Three-Body trilogy beyond the literary realm in post-socialist China https://t.co/Hmm4wr9CCH

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In her paper ‘Poison Rainbows,’ @tswilkes21 considers how Africanfuturist writing can enrich environmental law as both grapple with the #posthuman in an age of ai and extinctions
https://t.co/1S8HcsxtIv

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In this beautiful essay by @annie_webster13, literary visions of Iraq in 2103 are read against the classical Arabic trope of the aṭlāl and the recent phenomenon of "solastalgia" in the Anthropocene. #scifi #worldlit https://t.co/JwIMe3ZE5c

[Nudrat Kamal @nudratkamal]

And finally, my chapter on postcolonial science fiction, cyborgs, goddesses and forms of indigenous knowledge as colonial resistance in @GhoshAmitav's The Calcutta Chromosome was published in @Palgrave's book Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction
https://t.co/QZVxGldpcs