Head of Caribbean and Transatlantic Worlds on the Move programme
Biography
Christine Chivallon is anthropologist and geographer, Research Director at the CNRS, visiting Fellow at Kellogg College (University of Oxford), main founder of the teaching programme “FIFCA” (French-Caribbean Programme) at Sciences Po Bordeaux. Her studies focused on materiality and power, space and identity, mainly in the Caribbean societies and the “Black Atlantic”, including research on memory of slavery. A significant part of her work is concerned by an epistemological approach of concepts in particular those used in the postcolonial thoughts.
Research projects
ANR « ALTER » (Histoires orales alternatives dans la Caraïbe (XIXe-XXIe siècles) ; ANR-14-CE31-0014
ANR « REPAIRS » (Réparations et compensations au titre de l’esclavage), ANR-15-CE33-0007
Selective bibliography
2018 (à paraître) « Decoding the diaspora of Stuart Hall, Historicity, performativity and performance of a concept”, African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, Routledge.
2017, « Colonial violence and civilising utopias in the French and British empires: the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) and the Insurrection of the South (1870) », (Chivallon, C. & Howard D.), Slavery & Abolition, 38 (3), 534-558
2012, L’esclavage. Du souvenir à la mémoire, Paris, Karthala.
2004, La diaspora noire des Amériques. Expériences et théories à partir de la Caraïbe, Paris, CNRS-Éditions
Research topics
Caribbean
colonialism
epistemology
memory
post-colonialisme
slavery
Caribbean and Transatlantic Worlds on the Move
Building a paradigm of modernity based on the Caribbean