Lisa Tackie, BA

Portrait photo of Lisa Tackie.

Photo source: Der Knopfdrücker.

Contact

Ferstelgasse 5/top floor, apartment 25
Room: D 03
1090 Vienna
T: +43-1-4277-494 53
E-Mail: lisa.tackie@univie.ac.at

Short biography

Lisa Tackie is an MA student in African Studies and International Development at the University of Vienna. From 2021 to 2022, she worked on the FWF project "Concepts of Development in Postcolonial Kenyan Literature" by Martina Kopf. In addition, she has been an active member of the racism-critical working group at the Institute for African Studies since 2021 and works as a workshop trainer on the topics of anti-racism and civil courage for various organisations, including asylkoordination österreich, Schwarze Frauen Community and Disrupt.

Lisa is currently writing her master's thesis with the working title: Travel as a Form of Resistance. How Black women use travel to fight against patriarchal and racist structures.

Research interests

Anti-Racism, Decolonisation, African Diaspora, Intersectionality, Educational Work on Anti-Racism, Travel Studies.

Selected publications

  • Adeaga, Tomi/ Kopf, Martina/ Tackie, Lisa (ed.) (forthcoming 2024):  Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies. Special issue “Current Trends, Uncommon Paths. Decolonising the Academia through Feminism”.
  • Tackie, Lisa (forthcoming 2023): Review on ‘Black Travel Writing: Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors’ by Isabel Kalous. In CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society. Special issue “Sketches of Black Europe”.
  • Tackie, Lisa (2022): BlackLivesMatter als Handlungsrahmen für queeren Aktivismus in Wien? Eine Annäherung. In: Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikawissenschaften 43, 33-47. DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.367_03

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