Session 2 of the CEPEL Seminar on Current Research Trends for Young Researchers – November 24, 2023

As part of the “CEPEL Seminar on Current Trends in Social Science Research,” we are pleased to invite you to the second seminar of the 2023–2024 academic year:

OnNovember 24, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. inthe Linz Room of Building 3 at the University of Montpellier’s Faculty of Law and Political Science, where we will welcome:

Frédéric Thomas, Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at CETRI,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Anti-Colonialism(s) – Perspectives from the South, Alternatives Sud, 2023

The session will be discussed by Eric Savarese, Professor at the University of Montpellier, and Anne Goerens, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at CEPEL

Summary:

While anti-imperialism is often reduced to a strategy that replicates the assumptions—if not the reflexes—of the Cold War, decolonialism tends to focus on intellectual and academic issues. Anti-colonialism—its history and its enduring nature—remains outside the frame. Anti-colonial struggles, still relevant today, offer a far more complex perspective on many of today’s issues, at the intersection of geopolitics and social movements. Is the transition to a multipolar world now a fait accompli…