Publics and Policing: Spies, Surveillance, and Colonial Subjects in Anti-Colonial French Politics
A Winter School webinar with Associate Professor Nancy Luxon
Nancy Luxon is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her work in contemporary political and social theory concentrates on questions of power, subjectivity, and truth-telling. Her first book, Crisis of Authority (2013), considers political authority as a political and psychological process in which individuals come to author themselves, and so to act within and against relations of hierarchy. More recently, she has edited a translation of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families (2017), along with a companion scholarly volume, Archives of Infamy (2019). Her second monograph, Staging the Political: Colonial Encounters in North Africa and France, analyzes a range of speech contexts, from the psychiatric clinics at Blida and Charles-Nicolle, to Tropiques and Présence Africaine, and the sites of anti-colonial postwar politics.
Webinar details
Presenter: Nancy Luxon
Discussants: Fernanda Pinto De Almeida and Lindokuhle Mandyoli
Webinar: 4th September
4pm SAST (GMT+2)
Toronto UTC (GMT-4)
Minnesota CST (GMT-5
Chair: Patricia Hayes
In Partnership
with the SARChI Chair in Social Change, University of Fort Hare (UFH), and the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), University of Minnesota (UM) and The Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto (UT).
