Jean-Philippe DEDIEU
Educated at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, Jean-Philippe Dedieu holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School and a Ph.D. in History and Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). His research focuses on the political history and sociology of African diaspora.
In addition to his contributions to Al Jazeera, The New Yorker and The New York Times, his scholarly articles have appeared in African Studies Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Foreign Affairs, Humanity, and The Journal of African History, among others. He has published a book in French: Immigrant Voices. African Migrants in the Public Sphere in France, 1960-1995 (Paris: Klincksieck, 2012).
A former Fulbright Scholar at University of California, Berkeley, Jean-Philippe Dedieu received a CIRHUS Fellowship at New York University in 2014, a Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Fellowship at Harvard University in 2015, a Senior Fellowship from the Max Weber Foundation in 2018, and a Visiting Scholarship from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 2019.
In addition to his contributions to Al Jazeera, The New Yorker and The New York Times, his scholarly articles have appeared in African Studies Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Foreign Affairs, Humanity, and The Journal of African History, among others. He has published a book in French: Immigrant Voices. African Migrants in the Public Sphere in France, 1960-1995 (Paris: Klincksieck, 2012).
A former Fulbright Scholar at University of California, Berkeley, Jean-Philippe Dedieu received a CIRHUS Fellowship at New York University in 2014, a Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Fellowship at Harvard University in 2015, a Senior Fellowship from the Max Weber Foundation in 2018, and a Visiting Scholarship from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 2019.
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Ce livre s'emploie à restituer la place des migrants africains dans l’espace public en France, des indépendances jusqu'au début du mouvement des « sans-papiers », en décrivant les itinéraires de leaders associatifs et de militants syndicaux, d'avocats et de comédiens.
Deux thèmes forts apparaissent. Le premier montre les stratégies développées par les gouvernements africains, avec le soutien de l’État français, pour marginaliser les revendications des migrants dans l’ancienne métropole coloniale. Le deuxième révèle les pratiques de discrimination et les rhétoriques de stigmatisation publique qui ont dévalorisé l’immigration africaine, des ouvriers aux élites.
La Parole immigrée montre que les sociétés africaines et françaises partagent ainsi une histoire commune qu'aucun discours politique ne saurait défaire, histoire que les migrants tissent chaque jour, au fil de leurs souffrances et de leurs conquêtes.""
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and the Rapidly Transforming Landscape in Nigeria.
Ce livre s'emploie à restituer la place des migrants africains dans l’espace public en France, des indépendances jusqu'au début du mouvement des « sans-papiers », en décrivant les itinéraires de leaders associatifs et de militants syndicaux, d'avocats et de comédiens.
Deux thèmes forts apparaissent. Le premier montre les stratégies développées par les gouvernements africains, avec le soutien de l’État français, pour marginaliser les revendications des migrants dans l’ancienne métropole coloniale. Le deuxième révèle les pratiques de discrimination et les rhétoriques de stigmatisation publique qui ont dévalorisé l’immigration africaine, des ouvriers aux élites.
La Parole immigrée montre que les sociétés africaines et françaises partagent ainsi une histoire commune qu'aucun discours politique ne saurait défaire, histoire que les migrants tissent chaque jour, au fil de leurs souffrances et de leurs conquêtes.""
and the Rapidly Transforming Landscape in Nigeria.
Her earliest works were insightful contributions to the growing scholarship on the overlooked history of African communities in imperial and post-colonial Europe. Her first book, Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich, was an oral history acknowledging the participation of African minorities to the German history, from the Weimar Republic to the postwar period.
More recently, Campt has deepened her intellectual reflection by exploring the crucial issue of visual representation. In Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe, published last year by Duke University Press, she traces the emergence of a black (European) subject by analysing a rich photographic documentation that intertwines her own family albums with snapshots of black German families and studio portraits of West Indian migrants in England.
In an interview with Think Africa Press, Campt talked to the French scholar Jean-Philippe Dedieu about the intellectual discourses on diasporas across the Atlantic as well as the significance of photography for allowing black people to imagine themselves, freed from racial prejudice.
http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137412997
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Dedieu, WIGH Fellow; Research Fellow, NYU.
Commentator: TBA
Graduate Student Commentator: Joan Chaker, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.
This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global history. It is part of History 2950hf, Approaches to Global History, and includes both reading sessions designed for graduate students and research sessions open to the interested public during which students and faculty participants will present current research. Faculty participants will be drawn from a number of schools, and, most especially, from the group of fellows in global history who are spending the academic year 2015/16 at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Discussions will be moderated by Professors Sven Beckert and Charles S. Maier.
Papers will be precirculated and available on the course website (Harvard ID required) or by request to [email protected] one week ahead of time.
Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are in the Lower Level Library, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, from 4:00-6:00pm.
Date:
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 16:00 to 18:00
1% Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality /
Ed. Myles Little, texts by Geoff Dyer, Joseph Stiglitz
On Tuesday, January 19, Myles Little shared the story of his book and the traveling exhibit he curated which accompanies it. NYU Visiting Scholar Jean-Philippe Dedieu moderated the discussion, and the following contributing photographers joined us: Kevin Cooley, David Leventi, Juliana Sohn, Jaqueline Hassink, and Floto+Warner.
In March 2015, billionaire private equity investor Paul Tudor Jones II predicted that the wealth gap would close “…in one of three ways: either through revolution, higher taxes, or wars.” To curate 1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality, Myles took as a departure point Edward Steichen's 1955 project The Family of Man. Steichen’s aim with Family was to capture "the essential oneness of mankind.” But sixty years later, the colossal inequality underpinning the world's societies means that for Myles's purposes, Steichen's goal was "less and less viable." (As example, the six-heir Walmart fortune accounts for more wealth than what the bottom 42% of Americans possess.) Thus, Myles crafted his project to reflect such distortion, aiming to "borrow the language of privilege and use it to observe and critique privilege.” In the end, he landed on “a small number of polished, well-crafted, medium format photographs by some of today’s best photographers."
The influx of migrants and asylum-seekers, from Africa and the Middle East to Europe and from Central and Latin America to the USA, are being met with a combination of repressive measures: walls and fences, naval military operations, laws criminalizing undocumented immigration, racial profiling, insufficient integration policies, to mention a few. Populist and xenophobic parties have fuelled racist resentment towards Muslims and immigrants in general and have encouraged hate speech and crimes.
At the same time, the USA and Europe are increasingly engaging in counter-terrorism operations in a way which is straining the democratic fabric of our society. Some of these measures have a disproportionate impact on ethnic and religious minorities, thus further polarizing societies. Governments and policy makers, claiming the incompatibility of security with human rights protection, are adopting laws and policies, which increase the powers of security services without guaranteeing the checks and balances necessary in a democracy. Ultimately, such policies contribute to the erosion of democratic core values on both sides of the Atlantic and play in the hands of populist parties and of those who promote antidemocratic causes.
Within this framework, the decision was made to organize an International Symposium in Paris at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme on November 20 and 21, 2014. The Symposium’s theme is “African students in the USSR and other former Eastern Bloc countries -- 1960–1990: From national histories to an international context.”
The main purpose of this two-day symposium will be to put together primarily historiographical research findings on the academic and scientific relationships between newly independent sub-Saharan and Maghreb countries, and the Soviet Union and nations within its sphere of influence. There are still very few interconnected histories of political and academic relations between the USSR and African countries. A more in-depth knowledge of the geopolitical context and its changes is required in order to grasp sometimes highly significant variations in student migratory flows from the same country and the differences between Africa’s sub-Saharan and Maghreb countries, as well as contrasts between the life stories of former students educated in the USSR but coming from different countries.
Le partenariat entre la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) et la Fondation scientifique de Russie pour les Sciences humaines (RGNF), lui a permis de développer une collaboration durant trois ans avec l’Institut d’Afrique de l’Académie des Sciences de Russie, sur Les étudiants africains en URSS. 1960-1990. Mobilité, expériences, et devenir professionnel. Dans ce cadre, il a été convenu d’organiser des Journées d’études internationales à Paris à la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme les 20 et 21 novembre 2014. Celles-ci ont pour thème : « Etudiants africains en URSS et dans les autres pays de l’ancien bloc soviétique. 1960-1990. Entre histoires nationales et contexte international ».
L’objet principal de ces deux journées est de rassembler des recherches, historiographiques principalement, sur les relations politiques et académiques entre les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne et du Maghreb nouvellement indépendants et l’Union soviétique et les pays de son aire d’influence. Les histoires croisées des relations politiques et académiques entre l'URSS et les pays d'Afrique ne sont en effet qu’assez peu écrites. Connaître le contexte géopolitique et ses fluctuations est nécessaire pour comprendre les variations parfois très importantes dans les flux d'étudiants d'un même pays et les différences entre les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne ou du Maghreb ou encore les contrastes entre les « récits » d'expériences entre des anciens étudiants ayant fait leurs études en URSS, venant de pays différents.