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Africa in contexts. Powers, areas and speech
Organised by GILES HOLDER and HERVÉ PENNEC (Donatecarcenter.com-AIX)
Seminar 2008/2009
On Thursday of 13h30h at 16 h 30
5, rue du Château of the Clock, 13094 Aix-en-Provence / Mediterranean Home of the Sciences of the Man / free entrance
Programme
On Friday, October 24th, 2008, Room 101, 14h-17h
Session of return : presentation of seminar and of programmes ongoing ANR in Donatecarcenter.com AIX
On Friday, November 7th, 2008 : Political Elites and social elites : the political stake of the society in Africa, session co-ordinated by JEAN-FRANÇOIS HAVARD, Room n ° 7, 14h-17h
On Friday, November 21st, 2008 : Missionary Writings : write on and for, session co-ordinated by HERVÉ PENNEC, Lecture theatre, 14h-17h
On Friday, December 5th, 2008 : Practices of writings (French, bambara) in Mali, session co-ordinated by CATHERINE ATLAN, room n ° 9, 14h-17h
On Friday, February 13th, 2009, Room Paul-Albert Février, 14h-17h
On Friday, March 13th, 2009, Lecture theatre, 14h-17h
On Friday, March 27th, 2009, Room Paul-Albert Février, 14h-17h
On Friday, April 10th, 2009, Lecture theatre, 14h-17h
Information to Odile Couture, secretariat of Donatecarcenter.com AIX : 04 42 52 40 61
Presentation
To question Africa in contexts, it is to give an account of knowledges and of the intelligibility of Africain situations in time and in space, by trying hard to exceed local logic to use the comparatisme and to achieve regional dynamics, but also rest of the world : acts of violence and powers, slavery and colonisation, memo and patrimonialisation, Islamization and évangélisations, elites and democracy, borders and globalisation...
Question Africa in contexts, it is also to grab all dimensions, variations and reconfigurations what they sometimes call Africa " , including out of the continental borders, to be interested in phenomena of’ "inventions" and representations of Africa. It will be a question of returning on categories, words, speeches and pictures, and of wondering about the production of knowledges, their subjacent ideology, their format and their cleaned up within an enlarged historiography.
If such requirement of shift is peculiar to scientific reflexion, social sciences however do not have unique vocation in déconstruire what they constituted in objects of analysis and of knowledge. The examination of their conditions of production is only a precondition in the understanding of social logic and of historical reasons in work, before achieving a historical anthropology anxious with revealing the place and the role of each of the actors in presence, including of researchers, sometimes absentees of this appraisal.
It is at this price that studies on Africa will be likely to bring another social and historical intelligibility than that of the North on the South, another look than that of a French history seen to be overseas. On the basis of Africa and Africans, by trying to abandon a position sometimes ethnocentrique and overhanging, and by trying to validate clean methodological and analytical tools, this historical anthropology to which seminar aspires will be then perhaps capable of achieving the different regimes of contemporaneousness of men and of women of Africa with whom we share the same historical swordings.
Finally, from a more pedagogic point of view, seminar will try hard to show how much the meeting of anthropological and historical reading can turn out to be fecund, especially for the students in master, who will so be able to participate in the development of research objects founded on the building of an interdisciplinary question setting, the development of an analysis and the opening up for discussion of the results which compete to a collective validation.
