The link between health and (de)coloniality opens up a space for critical reflection on the power relations that run through bodies, healthcare practices and health policies.
In line with anthropological studies that question the production of medical knowledge and its historical roots, this study day proposes to think of health not as a neutral or universal domain, but as a field traversed by colonial heritages, epistemic inequalities and situated social relations.
How does one treat, care for oneself and one’s body in a post-colonial spatio-temporal context? Care practices, far from being universal, remain shaped by regimes of knowledge and body politics marked by the colonial fact. Colonial violence is not confined to medical structures, since it is also present in the way colonized bodies are perceived and treated.
At the crossroads of health, gender and postcolonial studies, psychology, anthropology, literature and sociology, the aim is to (re)think political intimacies as terrains where the continuity of the colonial, the medicalization of the social and the politicization of the sensitive are experienced.
Detailed program
Morning
9:30am-9:45am: Welcome
9:45am-10:00am: Welcome and introduction by the organizing team
10:00am-12:30pm: Panel: An anthropology of the sensible: Affects and knowledge in (de)colonial contexts.Moderation/discussion: Serena Garbolino and Gülistan Zeren
Participant.es:
Fatoumata Outtara (Anthropologist, Research Fellow, IRD) , title to be defined
Riwanon Gouez (Doctoral student in anthropology, EHESS, CNE/CMH (Centre Maurice Halbwachs), “Le quotidien du sentir: naissances, territoires et pratiques de soin contre-coloniales des parteras misak en Colombie)”
Johanna Less (Chercheuse associée au Centre Norbert Elias (CNE)), “Colonialité du savoir en zone industrielle: quand la science invisibilise, déligitime les savoirs intimates de l’expérience de la maladie” (The coloniality of knowledge in industrial zones: when science invisibilizes, deligitimizes intimate knowledge of the experience of illness)Afternoon
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Film screening Château en Santé (directed by Olivier Bertrand, 2021)
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Round table: Utopie(s) en santé publique: Politiques, Imaginaires, PratiquesModerator: Sokhna Boyle (Anthropologist, ATER, AMU)
Participant.es
Olivier Bertrand (journalist, film director)
Marie Dos Santos (Sociologist, Sesstim)
Elisa Beausson (Caregiver, marriage and family counselor at Château en Santé)
Our partners
- Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology (IDEAS)
- Institute of African Worlds (IMAF)
- Norbert Elias Center (CNE)
- Center for Research and Documentation on Oceania (CREDO)
- Institute for Asian Research (IrAsia)
- Population – Environment – Development Laboratory (LPED)
The link between health and (de)coloniality opens up a space for critical reflection on the power relations that run through bodies, healthcare practices and health policies.
In line with anthropological studies that question the production of medical knowledge and its historical roots, this study day proposes to think of health not as a neutral or universal domain, but as a field traversed by colonial heritages, epistemic inequalities and situated social relations.
How does one treat, care for oneself and one’s body in a post-colonial spatio-temporal context? Care practices, far from being universal, remain shaped by regimes of knowledge and body politics marked by the colonial fact. Colonial violence is not confined to medical structures, since it is also present in the way colonized bodies are perceived and treated.
At the crossroads of health, gender and postcolonial studies, psychology, anthropology, literature and sociology, the aim is to (re)think political intimacies as terrains where the continuity of the colonial, the medicalization of the social and the politicization of the sensitive are experienced.
Detailed program
Morning
9:30am-9:45am: Welcome
9:45am-10:00am: Welcome and introduction by the organizing team
10:00am-12:30pm: Panel: An anthropology of the sensible: Affects and knowledge in (de)colonial contexts.Moderation/discussion: Serena Garbolino and Gülistan Zeren
Participant.es:
Fatoumata Outtara (Anthropologist, Research Fellow, IRD) , title to be defined
Riwanon Gouez (Doctoral student in anthropology, EHESS, CNE/CMH (Centre Maurice Halbwachs), “Le quotidien du sentir: naissances, territoires et pratiques de soin contre-coloniales des parteras misak en Colombie)”
Johanna Less (Chercheuse associée au Centre Norbert Elias (CNE)), “Colonialité du savoir en zone industrielle: quand la science invisibilise, déligitime les savoirs intimates de l’expérience de la maladie” (The coloniality of knowledge in industrial zones: when science invisibilizes, deligitimizes intimate knowledge of the experience of illness)Afternoon
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Film screening Château en Santé (directed by Olivier Bertrand, 2021)
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Round table: Utopie(s) en santé publique: Politiques, Imaginaires, PratiquesModerator: Sokhna Boyle (Anthropologist, ATER, AMU)
Participant.es
Olivier Bertrand (journalist, film director)
Marie Dos Santos (Sociologist, Sesstim)
Elisa Beausson (Caregiver, marriage and family counselor at Château en Santé)
Our partners
- Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology (IDEAS)
- Institute of African Worlds (IMAF)
- Norbert Elias Center (CNE)
- Center for Research and Documentation on Oceania (CREDO)
- Institute for Asian Research (IrAsia)
- Population – Environment – Development Laboratory (LPED)