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Robert Stock
Robert Stock coordinates the DFG-research unit ‘Participation and Media. Between Demand and Entitlement’ at the University of Konstanz. He has a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies (2017) and holds a Master Degree in European Ethnography from the Humboldt-University of Berlin (2009). In his dissertation project at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (Gießen) he analysed postcolonial memory politics in documentary films from Mozambique and Portugal. His main research interests are cultural practices of hearing and seeing, digital media and dis/ability, ambivalences of audiovisual testimony and postcolonial memory politics. Recent publications: (with Mathias Deneke, Anne Ganzert and Isabell Otto) (2016) ReClaiming Participation. Technology – Mediation – Collectivity. Bielefeld: transcript; (2014) ‘Archival images and audiovisual testimony: Negotiating the end of empire in the documentary films Guerra Colonial. Histórias de campanhas em Moçambique (1998) and Natal 71 (1999)’ in: International Journal for Iberian Studies 27:2&3, pp. 183–201; (2012) ‘Apologising for colonial violence: The documentary film Regresso a Wiriyamu, transitional justice, and Portuguese-Mozambican decolonisation’ in: Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory: Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century, ed. by Birgit Schwelling. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 239–76.