Le séminaire Actualité critique européenne 12/04/2022 – prof. Michel Wieviorka
Le Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones de l’Université de Varsovie, la Faculté de sciences politiques et d’études internationales de l’Université de Varsovie ainsi que la Faculté de philosophie de l’Université de Varsovie en coopération avec l’École Normale Supérieure rue d’Ulm vous invitent à la rencontre dans le cadre du séminaire d’Actualité critique européenne.
Woke, racialization, cancel culture, etc.: renewed semantic and political fights
prof. Michel Wieviorka (EHESS)
le mardi 12/04/2022
16h45-18h15
La rencontre, en anglais, se tiendra sous forme hybride.
Faculté de philosophie de l’Université de Varsovie, 3 rue Krakowskie Przedmieście, salle nº109
En ligne : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84750371354
Veuillez noter que la réunion est enregistrée. L’enregistrement sera utilisé à des fins scientifiques. La participation à la rencontre équivaut à donner son consentement.
Descriptif
In the French debates, a new or renewed semantic system recently appeared, importing some of its words from USA : « woke » , « cancel culture », « intersectionality », « post-colonial studies », « de-colonial studies » but also inventing French categories such as « écriture inclusive », or « islamo-gauchisme ». The main actors in this debate is a new form a political rightism, in some cases an extreme-right, which promotes rigid ideas of « Republique » and « laïcité », much more than any kind of nationalism, which is strongly opposed to migrants defined first of all as Muslims, which doesn’t differentiate so much Islam and Islamism,, but which appears also as strongly opposed to anti-semitism – considering than hatred towards Jews is mainly a muslim issue. This is a key issue in French contemporary political life, dealing with migrants, religion, and universal values.
Prof. Michel Wieviorka is Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He is chairing the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris). He has been Director of the Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (1993-2009), founded by Alain Touraine and President of the International Sociological Association (2006-2010). He is the founding editor of a new Journal, Socio (first issue in March 2013), and a member of the editorial board of several other international journals.
His main research deal with social movements, racism, terrorism, violence, multiculturalism and cultural differences. Among his main books, in English, are: The Arena of Racism (Sage, 1995); The Making of Terrorism (University of Chicago Press); Violence, a new Approach (Sage, 2008); The Lure of Anti-Semitism. Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France (Brill, 2007), Evil (Polity Press, 2012); The Front National – caught between extremism, populism and democracy (Counterpoint, 2013); Pour une démocratie de combat (Robert Laffont 2020).