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Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars, Africa VS North America Vol 2, 2019
Africa, UK, and Ireland: Writing Politics and Knowledge Production, 2018
Papers by Nica Cornell
International journal of fashion studies, Apr 1, 2023
This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxf... more This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxford, England for my master’s in African studies. It presents a series of vignettes to explore the interplay of disability, dress and disguise during that time as trauma, alienation and my history of mental illness triggered a health crisis. The physical realities of living in my new body fundamentally changed not only how I dressed it, but my relationship with dress itself. Dressing became an obstacle to being able to be in the external world, a performance of invisibility to dissolve the selves that rendered me so abnormal, both politically and medically, and a touchstone of a prior and better existence.
Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology, May 19, 2020
International Journal of Fashion Studies
This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxf... more This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxford, England for my master’s in African studies. It presents a series of vignettes to explore the interplay of disability, dress and disguise during that time as trauma, alienation and my history of mental illness triggered a health crisis. The physical realities of living in my new body fundamentally changed not only how I dressed it, but my relationship with dress itself. Dressing became an obstacle to being able to be in the external world, a performance of invisibility to dissolve the selves that rendered me so abnormal, both politically and medically, and a touchstone of a prior and better existence.
Africa, UK, and Ireland, 2018
Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology, 2019
Over 600 poets have been given voice in this series which was started five years ago, making it a... more Over 600 poets have been given voice in this series which was started five years ago, making it an important archive of new African poetry. Every year space is given to as many poets as can be accommodated; it takes at least 10 years to make a poet! The greatest positive aspect of this series is the poems received from writers who contribute each year: Archie Swanson, Chaun Ballard, Chengetai Mhondera, Troydon Wainwright, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka and Soberano Canhanga, and several who have poems in the 2016, 2017, and 2018 anthologies, and so many new ones. Many poets have gone on to publish their first collection and more, several have won prizes all over the world, some have become academics, some influential performers of their work and some have travelled all over the world presenting their work.
This year’s Best “New” African Poets 2019 Anthology there is 197 poems from a more than one hundred poets (including collaborations) writing in English, Portuguese, French, and a whole host of African indigenous languages. Featured are poems which deal with love, relationships, politics, governance, spirituality, existence, identity and place. We invite you to this year’s anthology to engage with the most important new African poets writing from the continent and the diasporas and enjoy this African pot-pouri of art and life.
The Frantz Fanon Blog, 2015
The book has a trope of national, social, spatial and teleological borders being breached as the ... more The book has a trope of national, social, spatial and teleological borders being breached as the movement “swept away categorical territories and social definitions” to form alliances rendered impossible within the existent framework of the social division of labour “between very diverse people working together to conduct their affairs collectively,” (Ross, 2002: 7). This is encapsulated by the main idea of May - “the union of intellectual contestation with workers’ struggle” (Ross, 2002:11). This remarkable expansion to overcome prescribed social identities and encounter people located in different categories is a key tenet of what makes May ’68 distinct. This response will therefore focus on that process of transcending borders, because it was this character that necessitated such a forceful and meticulous confiscation of the events of May ’68. The experience of May’s transcendent equality could not be represented within the available forms of representation because it could not be felt within the established social functions. These had to be disregarded for movement to develop. This disregard for that which was previously thinkable “threatens everything that is inscribed in our repertories for all the various ways we have to represent the social” (Ross, 2002: 11), hence the state response at the time and the containment and erasure since then. This character is also what created the possibility of afterlives, rendering the text relevant now.
The Frantz Fanon Blog, 2014
This essay will discuss two of the ways in which the Haitian Revolution is significant for the pr... more This essay will discuss two of the ways in which the Haitian Revolution is significant for the practice of contemporary theory. It suggests that the Haitian Revolution unseals the silenced history of the contemporary praxis of liberal democracy-issuing a warning of the long-term consequences of silencing that which is deemed unthinkable at one time-and in the process offers the emancipatory potential of an actual universal doctrine of human rights. It will track the history of the hegemonic global political order that is now understood to be that of "neo-liberal capitalism and democracy" (Neocosmos, 2011: 362) and its limitation to a negative, legal interpretation of human rights (Nesbitt, 2009: 94). The contradictions and silenced chapter of that history establish the need for a rethinking of human rights. This is necessary for the practice of contemporary theory to constitute an emancipatory political project. The recognition of the Haitian Revolution shifts the genesis of contemporary human rights discourse - with emancipatory implications.
Book Reviews by Nica Cornell
The Journal of Dress History, 2022
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2021
The Journal of Dress History Late Autumn 2021 Issue, 2021
Research Presentations by Nica Cornell
Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars, Africa VS North America Vol 2, 2019
Africa, UK, and Ireland: Writing Politics and Knowledge Production, 2018
International journal of fashion studies, Apr 1, 2023
This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxf... more This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxford, England for my master’s in African studies. It presents a series of vignettes to explore the interplay of disability, dress and disguise during that time as trauma, alienation and my history of mental illness triggered a health crisis. The physical realities of living in my new body fundamentally changed not only how I dressed it, but my relationship with dress itself. Dressing became an obstacle to being able to be in the external world, a performance of invisibility to dissolve the selves that rendered me so abnormal, both politically and medically, and a touchstone of a prior and better existence.
Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology, May 19, 2020
International Journal of Fashion Studies
This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxf... more This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxford, England for my master’s in African studies. It presents a series of vignettes to explore the interplay of disability, dress and disguise during that time as trauma, alienation and my history of mental illness triggered a health crisis. The physical realities of living in my new body fundamentally changed not only how I dressed it, but my relationship with dress itself. Dressing became an obstacle to being able to be in the external world, a performance of invisibility to dissolve the selves that rendered me so abnormal, both politically and medically, and a touchstone of a prior and better existence.
Africa, UK, and Ireland, 2018
Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology, 2019
Over 600 poets have been given voice in this series which was started five years ago, making it a... more Over 600 poets have been given voice in this series which was started five years ago, making it an important archive of new African poetry. Every year space is given to as many poets as can be accommodated; it takes at least 10 years to make a poet! The greatest positive aspect of this series is the poems received from writers who contribute each year: Archie Swanson, Chaun Ballard, Chengetai Mhondera, Troydon Wainwright, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka and Soberano Canhanga, and several who have poems in the 2016, 2017, and 2018 anthologies, and so many new ones. Many poets have gone on to publish their first collection and more, several have won prizes all over the world, some have become academics, some influential performers of their work and some have travelled all over the world presenting their work.
This year’s Best “New” African Poets 2019 Anthology there is 197 poems from a more than one hundred poets (including collaborations) writing in English, Portuguese, French, and a whole host of African indigenous languages. Featured are poems which deal with love, relationships, politics, governance, spirituality, existence, identity and place. We invite you to this year’s anthology to engage with the most important new African poets writing from the continent and the diasporas and enjoy this African pot-pouri of art and life.
The Frantz Fanon Blog, 2015
The book has a trope of national, social, spatial and teleological borders being breached as the ... more The book has a trope of national, social, spatial and teleological borders being breached as the movement “swept away categorical territories and social definitions” to form alliances rendered impossible within the existent framework of the social division of labour “between very diverse people working together to conduct their affairs collectively,” (Ross, 2002: 7). This is encapsulated by the main idea of May - “the union of intellectual contestation with workers’ struggle” (Ross, 2002:11). This remarkable expansion to overcome prescribed social identities and encounter people located in different categories is a key tenet of what makes May ’68 distinct. This response will therefore focus on that process of transcending borders, because it was this character that necessitated such a forceful and meticulous confiscation of the events of May ’68. The experience of May’s transcendent equality could not be represented within the available forms of representation because it could not be felt within the established social functions. These had to be disregarded for movement to develop. This disregard for that which was previously thinkable “threatens everything that is inscribed in our repertories for all the various ways we have to represent the social” (Ross, 2002: 11), hence the state response at the time and the containment and erasure since then. This character is also what created the possibility of afterlives, rendering the text relevant now.
The Frantz Fanon Blog, 2014
This essay will discuss two of the ways in which the Haitian Revolution is significant for the pr... more This essay will discuss two of the ways in which the Haitian Revolution is significant for the practice of contemporary theory. It suggests that the Haitian Revolution unseals the silenced history of the contemporary praxis of liberal democracy-issuing a warning of the long-term consequences of silencing that which is deemed unthinkable at one time-and in the process offers the emancipatory potential of an actual universal doctrine of human rights. It will track the history of the hegemonic global political order that is now understood to be that of "neo-liberal capitalism and democracy" (Neocosmos, 2011: 362) and its limitation to a negative, legal interpretation of human rights (Nesbitt, 2009: 94). The contradictions and silenced chapter of that history establish the need for a rethinking of human rights. This is necessary for the practice of contemporary theory to constitute an emancipatory political project. The recognition of the Haitian Revolution shifts the genesis of contemporary human rights discourse - with emancipatory implications.
The Journal of Dress History, 2022
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2021
The Journal of Dress History Late Autumn 2021 Issue, 2021