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N°26 - October 2008
Politiques du moment colonial. Historicités indigènes et rapports vernaculaires au politique en "situation coloniale", by Romain Bertrand

The field of colonial studies has gone through tremendous theoretical upheavals in the past three decades. Yet something is still too often missing in the study of 17th, 18th and 19th century situations of colonial or imperial “encounter”, namely this vernacular domain of thought and actions that was kept out of reach of the colonizer’s power and knowledge tools, and that was not geared toward the (whether coerced or not) commercial, political or military interaction with the Europeans. Nevertheless, it is only by focusing on this vernacular (rather than “native” or “indigenous”) hors-champ of the colonial situation that one can achieve a better understanding of the multi-layered historicity of extraeuropean societies. This perspective indeed allows us to make sense of the “colonial moment” of these societies with regards not only to their encounter with Europe, but also to their own long-term ideological and political trajectories (trajectories that began long before the arrival of the Europeans and that never can be wholly equated with the effects and consequences of the latter). This research agenda moreover helps us to get back to a more nuanced and historically accurate view of the initial precariousness and “leopard-skin” style dissemination of European colonial power. Lastly, it enables us to get beyond the now dominant paradigm of the “indigenous appropriation of colonial/Europea n modernity” and its old-fashioned utilitarian language of “native agency” by investigating the local, vernacular visions of the self and of history that were put to use in the tactical engagement with, or avoidance of, colonial rule.

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2008

N°26 - October 2008
Politiques du moment colonial. Historicités indigènes et rapports vernaculaires au politique en "situation coloniale", by Romain Bertrand
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N°25 - June 2008
En quoi les "partis ethniques" sont-ils "ethniques" ? Les trajectoires du MDL en Bulgarie et de l’UDMR en Roumanie, by Antonela Capelle-Pogacean and Nadège Ragaru
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N°24 - March 2008
Le concept de situation thermidorienne : régimes néo-révolutionnaires et libéralisation économique,
by Jean-François Bayart
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2007

N°23 - December 2007
L’analyse de la "rivalité" dans les relations internationales. Le cas de l’Inde et de la Chine, by Renaud Egreteau
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N°22 - October 2007
Le Sangh Parivar et la diaspora hindoue en Occident : Royaume-Uni, États-Unis et Canada, by Christophe Jaffrelot and Ingrid Therwath
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N°21 - September 2007
L’invention de l’aide française au développement. Discours, instruments et pratiques d’une dynamique hégémonique, by Julien Meimon
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N°20 - April 2007
Sovereignties, the World Conference against Racism 2001 and the Formation of a Dalit Human Rights Campaign, by Dag Erik Berg
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2006

N°19 - December 2006
Viewing the “New” South Africa. Representations of South Africa in Television Commercials: an Experiment in Non-directive Methods, by Rehana Ebrahim-Vally and Denis-Constant Martin
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N°18 - June 2006
Les sciences sociales et le "moment colonial" : de la problématique de la domination coloniale à celle de l’hégémonie impériale, by Romain Bertand
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N°17 - May 2006
Le débat russe sur l’informel, by Myriam Désert
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2005

N°16 - December 2005
"Qui a le bâton, a le buffle". Le corporatisme économique de l'armée pakistanaise, by Amélie Blom
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N°15 - October 2005
Solving Europe’s Binary Human Rights Puzzle. The Interaction between Supranational Courts as a Parameter of European Governance, by Laurent Scheeck
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N°14 - June 2005
Les analyses de l'engagement associatif en Russie, by Françoise Daucé
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N°13 - February 2005
"Shadow States" ? State building and national invention under external constraint in Kosovo and East Timor (1974-2002) - Raphaël Pouyé
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2004

N°12 - December 2004
Russian Foreign Policy Discourse during the Kosovo Crisis : Internal Struggles and the Political Imaginaire, by Guillaume Colin
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N°11 - January 2004
Religion and Politics in Greece : The Greek Church’s ‘Conservative Modernization’ in the 1990s, by Anastassios Anastassiadis
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2003

N°10 - June 2003
For a theory of nationalism, by Christophe Jaffrelot
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N°9 - May 2003
Le voleur et la matrice : Les enjeux du "cybernationalisme" et du "hacktivisme", by Laurent Gayer
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N°8 - February 2003
Les marchés de la vertu : la promesse des fonds éthiques et des micro-crédits, by Javier Santiso
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2002

N°7 - September 2002
Analyser le massacre. Réflexions comparatives, by Jacques Sémelin
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N°6 - June 2002
Analyser les modes de représentation des intérêts dans l'Union européenne : construction d'une problématique, by Sabine Saurugger
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N°5 - February 2002
Les relations civilo-militaires en Croatie, 1990-2001, by Renéo Lukic and Jean-François Morel
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N°4 - January 2002
New Perspectives on EU-Member State Relationships, by Simon Bulmer and Christian Lequesne
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2001

N°3 - November 2001
The Adjudication of Ethnic Claims by John Crowley
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N°2 - November 2001
Politics Behind The Mask: Studying Contemporary Carnivals in Political Perspective, Theoretical and Methodological Suggestions, by Denis- Constant Martin
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N°1 - November 2001
"Injustes" sanctions : les constructions internationales de la dénonciation des embargos et l'escalade de la vertu abolitionniste, by Ariel Colonomos
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