Moana Jean Packo

Areas of research:
Postcolonial history, history of religious nationalism, postsecular theory, religious identity politics, reproductive politics, the body as property

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Activities


Lectures
  • “Thinking Redress and Reparations beyond the Nation State”, presentation by Moana Jean Packo during the workshop "Race and Propertization". (November 11, 2021)

Publications

  • Packo, Moana J., “‘The Measure of Justice’: Locating the Fight for Land Reparations within Du Bois’ ‘General Strike,’” in: Relating to Land, edited by Helen A. Gibson, Sofia Bianchi Mancini, Dirk Schuck, and Markus Vinzent. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag (forthcoming 2024).
  • Packo, Moana J., “The Struggle for Reparations,” in: Racism in the United States. A Handbook on History, Society, and Politics edited by Silvan Niedermeier. Gesellschaft und Politik, UVK – utb (forthcoming 2024).
  • Packo, Moana J.. Review: Manjapra, Kris: Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation New York 2022, in: H-Soz-Kult (forthcoming 2024).
  • Packo, Moana J., Review: Knewitz, Simone: The Politics of Private Property. Contested Claims to Ownership in U.S. Cultural Discourse, Lanham 2021, H-Soz-Kult, 2 May 2022, http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-114556.

Teaching

  • WiSe 2022/2023 “Race and Religion in American History” (with Alexander Obermüller) BA Seminar, University of Erfurt

Subprojects

A02 Property in one’s own body and in the bodies of others in the United States between the eighteenth and twentieth century.

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