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    Study days - America

    Race and psychiatry

    History of post-slavery societies (Brazil, United States, Madagascar, Algeria 1900-1960)

    Cette journée réunit des contributions d'historiens s'interessant à l'articulation des savoirs médicaux sur la race et la folie, élaborée dans les sociétés post-esclavagistes au tournant du vingtième siècle: Brésil, États-Unis, Madagascar, Algérie. Cette articulation sert tout autant un projet de contrôle social et de domination des populations racisées qu’elle permet de mettre à l’épreuve de l’expérience l’hypothèse physiologiste de la folie et de la race. Lors de cette séquence qui s’achève après la seconde guerre mondiale, à partir de laquelle la psychiatrie comme les sciences humaines se placent dans un rapport inversé avec la race et la folie, on peut identifier un moment charnière au tournant des années 1930, au cours duquel la « découverte de l’inconscient » par les scientifiques permet de « déphysiologiser » la race pour mettre en évidence les constructions culturelles, anthropologiques et sociologiques des comportements humains, et ainsi interroger l’ordre social.

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  • Abidjan

    Call for papers - Africa

    African popular music: the veritable voices of the people?

    Perhaps for reasons related to intellectual elitism or simply because of the lack of an effective means of analysis, African popular arts (Modern African music in particular) keep on being pushed to the margins of academic discourse on postcolonial cultural identities. To this day and more than not, in classroom discussions on African culture(s), a place of pride is ascribed to literature (at films at times) despite the high rate of illiteracy and difficulty distributing them, which makes these products utterly inaccessible to the masses. That African writers like Ngugi (Kenya) and Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal) decide to take their leave from colonial languages on behalf on “penning” their stories in African languages is sometimes hailed as an exceptional way towards cultural affirmation and identity recalibration. In terms of their production and consumption, however, popular musical forms have an absolute impact on African populations. These forms are transfigurations of the people’s daily life experience in that they bring together and crystallize the identities of the musical forms in question more than any other artistic expression.

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