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“Le “décolonialisme” est une stratégie hégémonique” : l’appel de 80 intellectuels, Le Point, 28/11/2028.
“La pensée “décoloniale” renforce le narcissisme des petites différences” : l’appel de 80 psychanalystes, Le Monde, 26/09/2019.
“Panique décoloniale chez les psychanalystes !” : la réponse aux deux premiers manifestes.
“Mais que font les psychanalystes ?” AOC Opinion, Silivia Lippi et Patrice Maniglier, 11.10.2019.
Ayouch, Thamy. Psychanalyse et hybridité : Genre, colonialité, subjectivations. Leveu Unicersity Press, 2018.

La psychanalyse serait-elle prise d’une crise de panique décoloniale ? C’est en tout cas ce que pourrait laisser penser la polémique qui a opposé, en 2019, deux groupes de psychanalystes et universitaires autour de la question de l’émergence et de la légitimité des études décoloniales et post-coloniales, et plus largement des théories critiques et multi-culturalistes en provenance des Etats-Unis. Les premiers, dans Le Monde du 25 septembre 2019, reprenant le Manifeste des « 80 intellectuels » publiée dans Le Point l’année précédente (28 novembre 2018), reprochait à la « pensée décoloniale » de faire l’impasse sur le vécu personnel au nom des déterminismes culturels et sociaux, et de faire ainsi le jeu du populisme et du racisme sous couvert d’activisme politique. Une autre, parue dans Libération, lui répondait en s’étonnant et de cet enrôlement de la psychanalyse dans la croisade anti-« décoloniale » et de la conception de la discipline sur laquelle elle se fondait, insistant au contraire sur la solidarité de la psychanalyse bien comprise avec au moins certaines des interrogations associées à ces discours « décoloniaux », à condition qu’ils soient eux-mêmes bien compris. Prenant appui sur cette polémique, ce cours se proposera de déployer les enjeux épistémologiques, métapsychologiques et cliniques qui sous tendent la possibilité d’instaurer un tel dialogue, et s’attardera pour cela sur la manière dont les études décoloniales et post-coloniales nous invitent à repenser la notion d’identité et de sujet à partir d’une prise en compte radicale des logiques de dominations qui en sous-tendent le fonctionnement.

Introduction : Panique décoloniale chez les psychanalystes !

The Ellison Center presents the panel "Feminist Anthropology of Old Europe: Celebrating the Centennial of Marija Gimbutas" on April 30, 2021.

This panel was part of the virtual 2021 REECAS Northwest Conference. Find more information about the conference here: jsis.washington.edu/ellisoncenter/reecas-nw/

Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994), Professor of European Archaeology and Indo-European Studies at UCLA, wrote numerous popular and controversial books about the prehistoric gods and goddesses of Old Europe. Her research was a source of inspiration for environmentalist, feminist, neo-pagan, and other social movements on both sides of and transgressing the “Iron Curtain.” Born in Lithuania, educated at the Universities of Vilnius, Tübingen and München, Gimbutas immigrated to the United States to teach at Harvard University before moving to the West Coast. This roundtable celebrates the Centennial of her birth.

Moderator & Organizer:

- Guntis Šmidchens, Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington-Seattle.

Panelists:

- Rasa Navickaitė, Visiting Lecturer, Central European University; Navickaitė's 2020 dissertation examines the transnational reception of Gimbutas’s work and persona in diverse feminist and women’s activist contexts on both sides of the “Iron Curtain.”  Among her other publications are “Postcolonial Queer Critique in Post-Communist Europe -Stuck in the Western Progress Narrative?” Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies (2014); “Under the Western Gaze: Sexuality and Postsocialist ‘Transition’ in East Europe,” in Postcolonial Transitions in Europe (2015), and numerous articles and essays in Lithuanian scholarly publications.

- Ernestine Elster, Associated Researcher, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archeology; Elster was a graduate student of Marija Gimbutas and participated in four of her archeological expeditions.  She has authored numerous publications on Italy and Greece in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, among them Excavations at Sitagroi, a prehistoric village in northeast Greece (1986), coauthored with Marija Gimbutas and this panel’s discussant Colin Renfrew. 

- Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge; Renfrew was a friend and colleague of Marija Gimbutas. He is author of many articles and books, among them Before Civilisation: The Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe (1973); Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change (1979); Archeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (1990); Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archeology (2000); and Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (2008).

This panel is cosponsored by the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the University of Washington Baltic Studies Program and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. The 2021 REECAS Northwest Conference, an ASEEES Regional Conference, is organized by the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Image courtesy of Ernestine Elster. From left to right, Ernestine Elster, Colin Renfrew, and Marija Gimbutas in 1986 at the publication celebration for the first volume of the Sitagroi excavations.

Ma Vlast: Vltava (Moldau)

2021 REECAS Northwest Panel | Feminist Anthropology of Old Europe: Marija Gimbutas (4.30.2021)

This lecture responds to criticisms that Spinoza cannot account for vulnerability since he does not have a strong enough conception of negativity that could account for loss and mourning (Butler). This lecture argues that affects, as with the social in Spinoza, support the conception of relational individuals, and that elements of negativity both in Spinoza and in Deleuze’s conception of death can help us redefine social vulnerability.

Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University Michel-de-Montaigne of Bordeaux-III in France. More information can be found at http://criticaltheory.berkeley.edu.

Introduction: Judith Butler, Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

Affect and Vulnerability: Spinoza and Deleuze on Negativity | Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung | 9/6/12

Conversation recorded with Laleh Khalili in London on May 18, 2015
http://the-archipelago.net/2015/05/18/laleh-khalili-the-geopolitics-of-maritime-transportation-in-the-middle-east/

LALEH KHALILI /// The Geopolitics of Maritime Transportation in the Middle East

Conversation recorded with recorded with Eyal Weizman in London on February 22, 2016
https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/eyal-weizman-forensic-investigations-designed-destructions-gaza

EYAL WEIZMAN /// Forensic Investigations of Designed Destructions in Gaza

Michael Vicente Pérez is a professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Washington. His research interests include migration and displacement, ethnicity and nationalism, memory, violence, human rights, Muslim societies and Islam.

https://anthropology.washington.edu/people/michael-vicente-perez

#024: Sociocultural Anthropology (From Cuba to Palestine & Beyond) w/ Michael Vicente Pérez

Roskilde University Intercultural Studies, Open seminar and Postcolonial Europe book launch : 

“(Anti)Racism in the University”
December 4, 2017, 1-4 pm

This public seminar invited such a discussion based on presentations by scholars whose work emphasizes problems of epistemic racism and its close connection to other structural expressions of racism. The presenters addresses questions as:

• What is the connection between epistemic racism and other structural expressions of racism?
• What are the alternative understandings of scientific validity, objectivity, and universality that continue being marginalized and/or ignored in white academia?
• How to understand and address the racial hierarchies and their operation in academia?
• What is meant by ‘decolonizing the university’?

Presenters:
Alice Feldman, Masters Programme in Race, Migration & Decolonial Studies, School of Sociology, University College Dublin.
José Arce, MA student, Global Refugee Studies. Coordinator of the reading group on Postcolonial Perspectives on Borders, Migration and Asylum
Yannick Nehemiah Antonio Harrison –Marronage
Tara Skadegaard Thorsen) and Christopher Macias Escalona. -FRONT 
Discussant/moderator: Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Roskilde University

Decolonising the Curriculum -  Roskilde University

In this episode, Dr. Dána-Ain Davis — activist, anthropologist, poet, doula, mother, grandmother— discusses citation as spiritual practice, poetry, love, birth and Black Women's storytelling with CBW's Christen Smith. This reflective and insightful conversation takes on a journey from her research to the possibilities and horizons of storytelling as radical engagement with Black women’s lives.

Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology.  She is the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center. Davis’ work covers two broad domains: Black feminist ethnography and the dynamics of race and racism. With regard to the latter, she has examined the ways race and racism animate neoliberalism and reproduction. This project has resulted in one co-edited volume with Shaka McGlotten, Black Genders and Sexualities(2013) and two single authored books Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and Hard Place (2006) and Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (2019).Davis has co-edited or co-authored two books on feminist ethnography with Christa Craven, reasserting the importance of feminist ethnographic production as intervention. The most recent being Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (2016).

Season 1, Episode 2: Dr. Dana-Ain Davis: "Citation As Spiritual Practice"

Conversation recorded in Johannesburg on September 12, 2019.

TSHEPO MADLINGOZI /// There Is Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in South Africa

L'autrice Béatrice Bienville, passionnée de contes, de mythologie, d'Histoires, Béatrice Bienville travaille souvent autour de réécriture de mythes afin de se ré emparer leurs forces évocatrices.
Odyssée Apocryphe, Si Ulysse n'était pas blanc écrit en 2017 dans le cadre d'une commande du festival En Actes, c'est un texte qui reprend le mythe de L'Odyssée, seulement cette fois-ci Ulysse ne cherche plus à rentrer chez lui, mais à partir...

Béatrice Bienville, Odysée Apocryphe, si Ulysse n'était pas blanc

A Moment of True Decolonization,
A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement
Episode nº24

As many of us are confined in many places of the world, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast in partnership with Radio Alhara emitting from Palestine. Our ambition for it is to not add to the saturation of information we are currently experiencing but, rather, to propose a daily extension 15-minute of our political imaginaries.

The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation.

While we are recording this podcast in privileged conditions of confinement, we keep in our thoughts the multitude of people around the world who do not share similar conditions or have no choice but to risk being affected by the pandemic because of criminal policies that have to do with neoliberalism, carceralism, or colonialism

We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you are.

http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/daily-podcast-24-menna-agha-the-nubian-house-wont-die-silently

A Moment of True Decolonization #24 Menna Agha /// The Nubian House Won't Die Silently

A Moment of True Decolonization,
A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement
Episode nº26

As many of us are confined in many places of the world, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast in partnership with Radio Alhara emitting from Palestine. Our ambition for it is to not add to the saturation of information we are currently experiencing but, rather, to propose a daily extension 15-minute of our political imaginaries.

The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation.

While we are recording this podcast in privileged conditions of confinement, we keep in our thoughts the multitude of people around the world who do not share similar conditions or have no choice but to risk being affected by the pandemic because of criminal policies that have to do with neoliberalism, carceralism, or colonialism

We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you are.

http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/daily-podcast-25-shahram-khosravi-border-smuggling-as-decolonial-practice

A Moment of True Decolonization #25 Shahram Khosravi /// Border Smuggling as Decolonial Practice

A Moment of True Decolonization,
A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement
Episode nº27

As many of us are confined in many places of the world, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast in partnership with Radio Alhara emitting from Palestine. Our ambition for it is to not add to the saturation of information we are currently experiencing but, rather, to propose a daily extension 15-minute of our political imaginaries.

The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation.

While we are recording this podcast in privileged conditions of confinement, we keep in our thoughts the multitude of people around the world who do not share similar conditions or have no choice but to risk being affected by the pandemic because of criminal policies that have to do with neoliberalism, carceralism, or colonialism

We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you are.

http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/daily-podcast-27-jaskiran-dhillon-the-idle-no-more-indigenous-movement

A Moment of True Decolonization #27 Jaskiran Dhillon /// The Idle No More Indigenous Movement

A Moment of True Decolonization,
A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement
Episode nº28

As many of us are confined in many places of the world, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast in partnership with Radio Alhara emitting from Palestine. Our ambition for it is to not add to the saturation of information we are currently experiencing but, rather, to propose a daily extension 15-minute of our political imaginaries.

The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation.

While we are recording this podcast in privileged conditions of confinement, we keep in our thoughts the multitude of people around the world who do not share similar conditions or have no choice but to risk being affected by the pandemic because of criminal policies that have to do with neoliberalism, carceralism, or colonialism

We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you are.

http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/daily-podcast-28-atiyyah-khan-jazz-against-apartheid

A Moment of True Decolonization #28 Atiyyah Khan /// Jazz Against Apartheid (Talk + DJ Mix)

A Moment of True Decolonization,
A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement
Episode nº29

As many of us are confined in many places of the world, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast in partnership with Radio Alhara emitting from Palestine. Our ambition for it is to not add to the saturation of information we are currently experiencing but, rather, to propose a daily extension 15-minute of our political imaginaries.

The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation.

While we are recording this podcast in privileged conditions of confinement, we keep in our thoughts the multitude of people around the world who do not share similar conditions or have no choice but to risk being affected by the pandemic because of criminal policies that have to do with neoliberalism, carceralism, or colonialism

We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you are.

http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/daily-podcast-29-minia-biabiany-an-island-giving-birth-to-islands

A Moment of True Decolonization #29 Minia Biabiany /// An Island Giving Birth to Islands

A Moment of True Decolonization,
A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement
Episode nº30

As many of us are confined in many places of the world, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast in partnership with Radio Alhara emitting from Palestine. Our ambition for it is to not add to the saturation of information we are currently experiencing but, rather, to propose a daily extension 15-minute of our political imaginaries.

The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation.

While we are recording this podcast in privileged conditions of confinement, we keep in our thoughts the multitude of people around the world who do not share similar conditions or have no choice but to risk being affected by the pandemic because of criminal policies that have to do with neoliberalism, carceralism, or colonialism

We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you are.

http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/daily-podcast-30-mariana-de-matos-poetic-fictions-from-brazil

A Moment of True Decolonization #30 Mariana de Matos /// Poetic Fictions from Brazil

A Moment of True Decolonization,
A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement
Episode nº31

As many of us are confined in many places of the world, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast in partnership with Radio Alhara emitting from Palestine. Our ambition for it is to not add to the saturation of information we are currently experiencing but, rather, to propose a daily extension 15-minute of our political imaginaries.

The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation.

While we are recording this podcast in privileged conditions of confinement, we keep in our thoughts the multitude of people around the world who do not share similar conditions or have no choice but to risk being affected by the pandemic because of criminal policies that have to do with neoliberalism, carceralism, or colonialism

We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you are.

http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/daily-podcast-31-ruth-wilson-gilmore-the-beginning-of-a-perfect-decolonial-moment

A Moment of True Decolonization #31 Ruth Wilson Gilmore /// Beginning of a Perfect Decolonial Moment

In this conversation recorded to be featured in The Funambulist 30 (July-August 2020) REPARATIONS, Hawaiian activist Edward Halealoha Ayau describes the signification of the Return of Hawaiian kūpunas (ancestors) to their homeland, as well as the training, strategies, and rituals that the Return of over 6,000 remains and cultural items have necessitated these past 30 years.

http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/edward-halealoha-ayau-reparations-30-years-of-repatriation-of-hawaiian-ancestors

EDWARD HALEALOHA AYAU /// Reparations: 30 Years of Repatriation of Hawaiian Ancestors

This conversation with Zoé Samudzi was recorded to operates as a complement of her text “Reparative Futurities: Thinking From the Ovaherero and Nama Colonial Genocide,” commissioned for and published in The Funambulist 30 (July-August 2020) REPARATIONS. Zoé begins by contextualizing the history of the first 20th century genocide, which was committed by the German settler colonial army against the Ovaherero and Nama nations in what is now Namibia. We then talks of the various forms of coalition settler colonial powers practice with each other, but also how the struggles against them can, in turn, form large solidarity fronts worldwide. Finally, Zoé describes the argument of her piece in The Funambulist 30 about the notion of reparative futurities.

Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral candidate in Medical Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a photographer and the archivist with MATATU Nomadic Cinema. Along with William C. Anderson, she is the co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Our Liberation (AK Press, 2018). She is currently a fellow with Political Research Associates.

https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/zoe-samudzi-namibian-history-anticolonial-solidarities-reparative-futurities

ZOÉ SAMUDZI /// Namibian History, Anticolonial Solidarities & Reparative Futurities

Invoking the global Black uprising, this conversation between Margarida Waco and Awa Konaté examines Anti-Blackness and the different ways in which institutional and structural violence against Black and Brown bodies is normalised and manifested across the Nordics, i.e. Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland in particular. The conversation draws upon Scandinavian colonial history and Denmark's role in slave trading as frameworks allowing for a critical examination of the cultural and political languages and iconographies associated with the Nordic Paradigm in an attempt to challenge, and finally dismantle the concept of Nordic Exceptionalism.

Margarida Waco in conversation with Awa Konaté, recorded on July 17, 2020.
http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/awa-konate-anti-blackness-and-nordic-exceptionalism

AWA KONATÉ /// Anti-Blackness and Nordic Exceptionalism

L’écologie décoloniale, les écologies du Sud et les mouvements populaires nous poussent à interroger la façon dont l’écologie politique se pense et se fait au Nord. Une écologie encore malheureusement souvent masculine, blanche et privilégiée qui, malgré elle, reproduit des schémas culturels postcoloniaux et véhicule une image de la transition dont les minorités sont absentes. Un débat qui s'est tenu dans le cadre des Rencontres de l'écologie politique, avec Mohammed Taleb (ALG), Malcom Ferdinand (FRA) et Stéphanie Ngalula Mukadi. Animé par Sophie Wustefeld.

Ecologie décoloniale. Avec M.Taleb, M. Ferdinand, S. Ngalula Mukadi

The Funambulist Podcast operates in parallel of The Funambulist, a magazine that engages with the politics of space and bodies.