Announcing ISSUE 11 of SHIFT

We are pleased to announce that Issue 11 of SHIFT: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture is now live! Currently hosted by the Graduate Center, CUNY, and edited by Art History Program PhD candidates Chris Green and Dana Liljegren, the issue–subtitled “BLOOD AND EARTH AND SOIL”– is devoted to contested politics of land and ancestry. As the editors write: 

Fascist and anti-fascist positions are rapidly coming to a head in a face-off over the politics of blood and soil, intimately linked by oppositional claims to (the) E/earth. As identification with soil, land, and place imbricates those who both espouse and resist hateful nationalisms, such ideologies are used to define borders, control the movement of bodies, and reconceive the regime of the visible.

Contributors from our department include Stephanie Lebas Huber and Horacio Ramos, and editorial committee members included Janine DeFeo, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Siwin Lo, Rachel Valinsky, Ian Wallace, and Chloe Wyma.

On March 28th, the issue’s editors will be organizing a symposium in New York to celebrate the launch of the new issue.