Françoise Vergès’s scientific contributions

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Creolization and Resistance
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September 2015

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Françoise Vergès

Françoise Vergès applies creolization to the concrete context of the French-Reunion politics of remembrance and its persistent politics of oblivion in the former metropoles of colonial power. Taking the example of the museum project Maison des Civilisations et de l’Unité Réunionnaise, she discusses the unwillingness of the French government to recognize its colonial past. Her discussion on The Maison des Civilisations et de l’Unité Réunionnaise argues for a need to imagine a postcolonial museography for a society still undergoing creolization.

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... By using their self-identification as Black as grounds of solidarity with African migrants in Finland, Roma women engage in "minor-minor" creolization, which takes place between marginalized peoples who are usually prevented from expressions of mutual learning and solidarity due to barriers erected by hegemonic forces (Constable 2011;Vergès 2015). By creating new forms of radical subaltern plurality, minor-minor creolization transgresses the rigid roles assigned to the subaltern through colonialism and slavery (Vergès 2015, 44). ...

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From ‘integration’ to creolization in Finnish migration research? Romanian Roma women’s stories of making homes in Finland
Creolization and Resistance
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Françoise Vergès