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Malini Guha

Malini Guha is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University. Her research and teaching are broadly concerned with spatiality and the cinema, with an emphasis on postcolonial and post-imperial modes of mobility, migration, displacement and settlement. Recent publications include a chapter on the narratives of return in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Diop Mambety in Cinematic Homecomings: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema as well as her monograph, From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in Cinema, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2015. Her current research project addresses the history of location shooting in the city of Kolkata.

no. 3, Screening Canada, vol. 4October 12, 2019

Infrastructural Sovereignty: IsumaTV at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale

By Malini Guha

Each column hosted on Mediapolis is written by a Contributing Editor member of our board, appears two to three times a year, and engages a topic, methodology, or medium in which the author is expert. In each “Screening Canada” column, …

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no. 1, Screening Canada, vol. 4February 20, 2019

‘Unceded’ as Elsewhere: Indigenous-Led Concepts of Architecture at the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale

By Malini Guha
[But our demise is greatly exaggerated – Chelsea Vowel, Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issue in Canada]

‘Unceded: The Voices of the Land’, the very first Indigenous-led exhibition to be presented at the 2018 …

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no. 1, Screening Canada, vol. 3February 14, 2018

The World Is Not Enough

By Malini Guha

We are pleased to announce that we are now hosting columns on Mediapolis. Each column is written by a Contributing Editor member of our board, appears two to three times a year, and engages a topic, methodology, or medium …

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Counterparts, no. 2, vol. 2June 9, 2017

The Space Between: ‘Rethinking Canada 150: Networks and Nodes in Asian Canadian Visual Culture’

By Malini Guha

Jinny Yu’s mixed-media piece Black Matter (2013) materializes some of the oppositions that are endemic to the diasporic experience. As Homi K. Bhabha suggested in a recent keynote address, the experience of displacement lends itself to a series of oppositions …

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no. 4, Remembrance, vol. 1August 31, 2016

The Practice of the Interdisciplinary: A Tribute to Doreen Massey

By Malini Guha

In a conversation with film and television scholar Karen Lury titled “Making Connections,” the late Doreen Massey observes

…what we have already agreed on, it seems, is that the potential for creative dialogue between people in film studies and those

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