{"id":1775,"date":"2018-02-13T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2018-02-13T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T10:00:30","slug":"beyond-the-post-colonial-au-dela-du-post-colonial-workshop-report-and-podcast-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the post(-)colonial?\/ Au-del\u00e0 du post(-)colonial? Workshop Report and Podcast (1\/4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Presentation<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beyond the post(-)colonial?<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than fifty years have passed since decolonisation was achieved in most of the former colonies of the European colonial powers. During that time, a substantial body of critical work has been produced under the rubric of \u2018postcolonial theory\u2019, which has in turn been the subject of extensive debate and critique. The reception and influence of this postcolonial \u2018turn\u2019 has also varied widely between academic disciplines and between countries, with France often viewed as an outlier in comparison to developments in the United States and Britain. The current conjuncture of political and social upheaval seems an appropriate moment to take stock and to ask a series of questions. Does the postcolonial framework of analysis still provide a useful set of concepts for the understanding of the modern world? Or have the flaws in this theoretical corpus now definitively outweighed the insights it facilitated? Has history now moved on in different directions requiring radically new interpretative approaches (e.g. global, decolonial)? How will European colonial imperialism and its demise be viewed in a longer historical perspective? How do these questions impinge on the understanding, not just of the European past in its relations with the rest of the world, but also of potential future(s) for Europe?<\/p>\n

Au-del\u00e0 du post(-)colonial?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plus d\u2019un demi-si\u00e8cle a pass\u00e9 depuis la d\u00e9colonisation de la plupart des territoires colonis\u00e9s par des puissances europ\u00e9ennes. Cette p\u00e9riode a \u00e9t\u00e9 marqu\u00e9e par la cr\u00e9ation et la publication d\u2019un corpus important qu\u2019on a pu cat\u00e9goriser sous le nom de la \u2018th\u00e9orie postcoloniale\u2019, un corpus qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019objet de nombreux d\u00e9bats et critiques par la suite. De m\u00eame, la r\u00e9ception et l\u2019influence du ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne \u2018postcolonial\u2019 n\u2019ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 les m\u00eames selon les disciplines scientifiques ou les contextes nationaux, et \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard la France est souvent d\u00e9crit comme un cas \u00e0 part en d\u00e9calage par rapport aux Etats-Unis et au Royaume Uni. La conjoncture actuelle, avec ses sursauts sociaux et politiques, nous semble le moment de tenter un bilan et de poser un certain nombre de questions. Cet appareil th\u00e9orique peut-il toujours fournir des concepts et des outils qui restent valables pour ceux qui veulent comprendre le monde actuel\u00a0? Le bilan de ces innovations th\u00e9oriques reste-t-il plut\u00f4t positif\u00a0? Ou les faiblesses de cette th\u00e9orie se sont-elles av\u00e9r\u00e9es plus importantes que les d\u00e9couvertes qu\u2019elle aurait facilit\u00e9es\u00a0? L\u2019histoire elle-m\u00eame a-t-elle \u00e9volu\u00e9 dans des sens diff\u00e9rents, exigeant des approches interpr\u00e9tatives radicalement diff\u00e9rentes\u00a0(par exemple, histoire globale ou d\u00e9coloniale) ? Comment penser aujourd\u2019hui la colonisation europ\u00e9enne et sa fin, dans une perspective historique plus longue\u00a0? Quels sont les enjeux de ces d\u00e9bats, non seulement pour une nouvelle analyse des rapports historiques de l\u2019Europe avec le monde plus large, mais aussi pour des perspectives ouvrant sur l\u2019avenir, ou les avenirs, de l\u2019Europe\u00a0?<\/p>\n

Event\u00a0report<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This workshop brought together colleagues from several universities in the UK and France for a discussion and exchange around current directions in postcolonial theory, the history of decolonization and academia\u2019s relationship to wider social issues around anti-racism, cultural diversity and discrimination. At the same time, the occasion was a celebration of the career of our distinguished colleague Margaret Majumdar and her appointment as professor emeritus at the University of Portsmouth.<\/p>\n

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The event was generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR). Participants included UoP staff and PhD students from SLAS and SSHLS, members of the Francophone Africa and CRaB clusters, alongside academics from the Universities of Westminster, South Wales, Lyon (France), Chichester, and University of West England. The format of the event was three panels with short opening contributions followed by a wider discussion: the three panel themes were \u2018The remaking of France? New histories of decolonisation\u2019; \u2018Theorising postcoloniality in cultural and literary studies\u2019 and \u2018The postcolonial beyond academia\u2019. Each panel and Q&A lasted around 90 minutes. The workshop concluded with an open roundtable discussion that brought out a number of key themes, including the importance of different national academic and public contexts in determining the reception of postcolonial theory; the challenges of engaging with, and putting academic research in the service of, wider societal debates on racism, power and representation; the ongoing challenge of opening up academic forums to researchers from the global South.<\/p>\n

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Podcast<\/u><\/strong>: The three panel sessions and discussions were recorded and have been edited into three podcasts which will be posted to the blog over the coming days.<\/p>\n

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