Postcolonial studies under erasure: The politics of the transnational in Italian studies

Abstract

My position on Italy, Italian studies, and the future of the discipline focuses on the method of two recent ‘ turns ’ in Italian studies, the postcolonial turn and the transnational turn, pertinent to the study of Italy and migrant mobility. It is my contention that the discipline, in its institutional discourse and material practices has promoted their relevance unevenly