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• 31 déc 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Resistance and Empire, new approaches and comparisons

  Since the early twentieth century, the notion of resistance became common currency in colonial language and anti-colonial ideologies to refer to military, political, and other forms of countering the authority of the colonizing institutions and agents in the colonies. After World War II and the boom of decolonization, it became an important tool in the critical and conceptual analysis of colonialism as a relationship of domination and opposition. Consequently, a wealth of studies was produced that focused on the ways though which indigenous people actively opposed, rebelled, or contested – militarily, politically, symbolically, culturally – the colonizing presence of Europeans. In the 1990s-2000s the validity of taking on “resistance” as a privileged concept and empirical topic was criticized for reducing the colonial phenomenon to a simplistic dichotomy – and since it appeared to have lost much of its early vitality in historical and anthropological research on empires and colonialism. Yet, since decolonization, ideas of “liberation” and anti-colonial resistance did not lose their significance as powerful tropes in retrospective nationalist readings of the birth of post- colonial nation-states. More recently, across the social sciences, “resistance” as a concept and a research trope seems to be revived, and a trans-disciplinary field of ‘resistance studies’ appears to come into emergence. What it means to study “resistance” both conceptually and comparatively in colonial and imperial history today?

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• 09 nov 2015

  10 nov 2015

  Lyon 07

  Seminar - Africa

  Thinking school since Africa

  L’objectif de ce séminaire fondé sur la méthode de l’anthropologie consistant à développer un « regard éloigné », propose de penser l’éducation à partir de l’Afrique. Ce déplacement du regard est doublement justifié : tout d’abord les politiques éducatives en Afrique soutenues par les bailleurs internationaux sont un excellent révélateur des politiques les plus récentes en matière d’éducation. L’école au Sud apparaît dès lors comme un laboratoire des politiques éducatives internationales. Ensuite l’école en Afrique fait face à des problèmes massifs tels que les inégalités, ou la diversité linguistique. Les réponses apportées par l’offre éducative à ces questions en Afrique permettent d’aborder sous un jour nouveau les problèmes auxquels l’école se confronte de manière aiguë en France.

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• 07 oct 2015

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Contested Hybrid Democracy: Endorsing or Revisiting the Liberal Model in non-Western Countries

  IPSA Istanbul 2016

  Democracy has become a worldwide reference in terms of political organization and governance. While the universal character claimed by such a model has largely been theorized from a Western point of view, the variety of uses and appropriations from non-Western countries, including emerging States, remains unexamined. Disappointed with the results brought by the transition paradigm, the hybrid regimes literature tends to assess the unequal reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries. Nevertheless, the hybrid regimes analytical frame does not exhaust the question of the inner workings of these regimes, since its scientific referential remains based on Western theories and focuses on the uncompleted democratization processes and dynamics. This panel aims at switching the analytical frame towards the reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries through an assessment of uses and reappropriations of this model by political and social actors. Non-Western countries represent an interesting reflection ground for testing appropriation-reject dialectics regarding the Western democratic model. While this model directly inspires some of these countries (India, South Africa or Turkey), it has been rejected by other countries (China and Russia). Are there emerging models of democracy or counter-democracy models in non-Western countries ? We shall address these questions related to the unequal reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries.

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• 24 mai 2015

  Hammamet

  Summer School - Africa

  Approaches and electoral analysis methods in a post-authoritarian context

  Ayant pour objectif de susciter le dialogue et les échanges entre chercheurs et doctorants travaillant d’un côté sur des contextes européens, de l’autre sur les « démocraties » émergentes en Afrique du Nord, ce projet d’école thématique souhaite contribuer au renouvellement des questionnements et des analyses électorales en contexte post-autoritaire. À travers la formation de jeunes chercheurs (rattachés à des institutions françaises et de la région Afrique du Nord), il ambitionne également de contribuer au développement d’une expertise en analyse électorale répondant aux besoins et aux contextes spécifiques des pays de la région.

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• 15 fév 2015

  Nantes

  Summer School - Early modern

  Freedoms and Slaveries in the Atlantic World (14th-20th c.)

  STARACO Summer University (STAtus, ‘Race’ and Colour in the Atlantic World from Antiquity to the Present)

  Today, bibliography on the phenomenon of slavery in the Atlantic is incredibly vast.  However, our research group on the definition of hierarchies of colours and of "races" cannot avoid addressing this subject. It is clear that the deportation of millions of African captives towards the Americas constituted the most powerful impetus for the racialisation of slavery, leading to the ‘natural’ representation according to which all slaves are black. This simple equation, however, covers over a complex historical process that this research conference seeks to analyze more closely. We must begin by ‘denaturalizing’ the concept of slavery. The term slavery, in fact, includes situations that are very different in time and space, which the various specialists in our research network will be able to compare. 

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• 20 jan 2015

  Call for papers - Africa

  The African Diaspora and Political Engagement

  Migrant Voting Behavior

  Studies devoted to the relationship of immigrants to politics have gradually started to unearth unheeded, even unknown swaths of political practices and know-how. Attesting to the prominence of the assimilationist model in migration studies, such studies have long focused exclusively on the political integration of migrants within their countries of residence. The recent diffusion of the transnational paradigm across the social sciences has helped to revitalize this approach. This shift has allowed researchers specialized in migration studies to break free from methodological nationalism and thus pave the way for an investigation of migrant participation in political life in both their countries of residence and countries of origin.

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