Christine Chivallon

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