Call for contributions for a collective volume Poelitics of Resistance in Contemporary Francophone Literatures and Arts from Africa and the Caribbean Editors: Jovensel Ngamaleu (CUNY)Agathe Dubois (Université Sorbonne)Jean Francky Guerrier (Université de Montréal)Blaise Doré-Caillouette (Université de Montréal) "T]here is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations." (Foucault, 1995: 27) "It is not [...] fundamentally against power that struggles arise, but against certain effects of power, against certain states of domination, in a space that has paradoxically been opened up by power relations. Conversely, if there were no resistance, there would be no effects of power, but simply problems of obedience." (Revel, 2002: 54, our translation) The contemporary world is increasingly violent, divisive, and in decline. Forms, mechanisms, strategies, and logics of resistance are multiplying on a daily basis in response to the many factors of alienation experienced in various areas. Politics, economics, techno-science, health, the environment, education, religion, spirituality, gender, sexuality, culture, art, history, cartography, epistemology, and the media, among others, are both the causes and consequences of the phenomena of power and resistance. The concepts of resistance and transgression are often linked and express the [...]
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