Axis 2 “Inclusive societies”

• Due to a strike, the seminar is canceled : Sophie Chave Dartoen, Amiria Salmond, Maori and decolonial ontology, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Science Po Bordeaux

Coordination: Michel Cahen (LAM, CNRS) and Elara Bertho (LAM, CNRS)

This seminar of theoretical text readings is collegial. It will focus on contemporary thoughts on decoloniality, understood as a continuing process of removing coloniality from power. What universes, what stories, what epistemologies are being put in place to renew the question of the universal, of the too easily binary center/periphery relationship, of a possible outside of coloniality? Anibal Quijano, Viveiros de Castro, Joseph Tonda, Mame-Fatou Niang, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Walter Mignolo will, for example, be read collectively and presented by one of us. Each time it will be about reading together, questioning our misunderstandings, our disagreements or, on the contrary, our enthusiasms. From these theoretical readings, these texts awaken in each of us, depending on our fields, our research, our imaginations, reflections on our own positions. As a follow-up, we are considering: a publication of a journal issue “Decolonial News, Crossed Perspectives”.

The seminar is collegial, which means that a large place is given to discussion, and to what the concept of a lateral universal awakens in us – whether enthusiasm or incomprehension.
Do not hesitate to bounce back, before or after the sessions: the discussions may find a form of publication (possibly also collegial) in the research notebook, Sketches .