Research Project by Damiano Matasci
Conferences, Talks, Calls for Papers, and Events by Damiano Matasci
UNESCO played a pivotal role in shaping postwar educational transformations, contributing to the ... more UNESCO played a pivotal role in shaping postwar educational transformations, contributing to the reconstruction of war-ravaged school systems and fostering new visions of education and learning. Notably, the organization assumed a critical role in the decolonization process, supporting the establishment of independent national education systems and promoting access to education for all peoples. In recognition of the 80 th anniversary of UNESCO's founding, the Roma Tre University is pleased to announce a call for papers for an international webinar series, scheduled to unfold across three distinct dates in the Spring of 2025: March 26, April 16, and May 14. The working languages of the webinar series will be English, French, and Italian, and contributions will be published in open access with Roma Tre University Press. This series is designed to provide a platform for presenters to showcase their ongoing research projects, discuss their chosen methodologies, highlight the types of sources being utilized, and share anticipated outcomes. The focus is on presenting works in progress and fostering collaborative and transdisciplinary discussions on emerging research. In addition to the webinar series, a final conference will be held on November 18, 2025, at Roma Tre University. This conference will provide a platform for broader discussion and reflection on the research project's findings. Proceedings from the conference will be published with an international publisher, to be determined. This initiative invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers that explore UNESCO's key role in postwar educational transformations, with a particular, though not exclusive, focus on the issue of decolonization.
UNESCO played a pivotal role in shaping postwar educational transformations, contributing to the ... more UNESCO played a pivotal role in shaping postwar educational transformations, contributing to the reconstruction of war-ravaged school systems and fostering new visions of education and learning. Notably, the organization assumed a critical role in the decolonization process, supporting the establishment of independent national education systems and promoting access to education for all peoples. In recognition of the 80 th anniversary of UNESCO's founding, the Roma Tre University is pleased to announce a call for papers for an international webinar series, scheduled to unfold across three distinct dates in the Spring of 2025: March 26, April 16, and May 14. The working languages of the webinar series will be English, French, and Italian, and contributions will be published in open access with Roma Tre University Press. This series is designed to provide a platform for presenters to showcase their ongoing research projects, discuss their chosen methodologies, highlight the types of sources being utilized, and share anticipated outcomes. The focus is on presenting works in progress and fostering collaborative and transdisciplinary discussions on emerging research. In addition to the webinar series, a final conference will be held on November 18, 2025, at Roma Tre University. This conference will provide a platform for broader discussion and reflection on the research project's findings. Proceedings from the conference will be published with an international publisher, to be determined. This initiative invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers that explore UNESCO's key role in postwar educational transformations, with a particular, though not exclusive, focus on the issue of decolonization.
This conference aims at ‘reversing the map’, and thus at reconfiguring the genealogy of the new p... more This conference aims at ‘reversing the map’, and thus at reconfiguring the genealogy of the new political cultures which marked the Global 1960s. In so doing we propose to move from the exclusive focus on a 1968 momentum centred on the Berkley-Paris axis towards different political geographies, (re)considering the key importance of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles. In our view, these dimensions are essential for understanding the new issues at stake during the Cold War era.
The goal of the conference is to examine the political, cultural, and activist circulations at the time of decolonization, as well as the redefinition of revolutionary and liberation imaginaries, discourses and practices that resulted from it, with particular emphasis on South-South connections.
The main working hypothesis is to reassess the role played by anti-colonialist, feminist, and anti-racist networks in Europe, both politically and culturally, thus contributing to shed new light on the global dimensions of the 1960s and 1970s.
Décoloniser l'éducation ? Mondialisation et production de savoirs dans le Sud global (XX e-XXI e ... more Décoloniser l'éducation ? Mondialisation et production de savoirs dans le Sud global (XX e-XXI e siècles) archives institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Appel à contribution Au cours de ces dernières années, la présence dans l'espace public genevois ... more Appel à contribution Au cours de ces dernières années, la présence dans l'espace public genevois d'un passé lié à l'esclavage et au colonialisme a été régulièrement au coeur de l'actualité. La gestion de cet héritage, visible dans les monuments ainsi que dans les noms de rues et d'édifices, a fait l'objet de nombreuses discussions, qui ont impliqué des acteur.trices étatiques, académiques, culturel.les et de la société civile. Des mesures concrètes ont aussi été prises, non sans polémiques, à l'image de la récente décision de rebaptiser le bâtiment de l'Université de Genève « Carl Vogt », entérinée en 2022 après les travaux d'un groupe de réflexion pluridisciplinaire.
Suisse romande et Tessin, mi XIX e-mi XX e siècles Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud Équi... more Suisse romande et Tessin, mi XIX e-mi XX e siècles Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud Équipe du Fonds national suisse de la recherche helitte.ch
The event is open to the public. Please register at: Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz (raphaelle.ruppencou... more The event is open to the public. Please register at: Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz ([email protected]); Damiano Matasci ([email protected]).
Appel à contributions pour un numéro thématique de la Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afriqu... more Appel à contributions pour un numéro thématique de la Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique (2021)
Deadline: September 15, 2020
Educational funding is vital for our understanding of mass schooling. As Brian Simon once noted, ... more Educational funding is vital for our understanding of mass schooling. As Brian Simon once noted, finance is "the life blood of any system that requires effective resources for healthy functioning 1 ." An increasing number of researchers -both in history of education and in economic history -have consequently addressed various aspects of the economic and financial dimension of primary, secondary and tertiary education 2 . Economic historians have investigated how variations and changes in educational expenditure have been linked to, for example, factors such as wealth inequality, political voice and fiscal capacity, social historians have explored systems of local funding, and historians and educationalist have also explored finance from a policy-perspective. Despite the immense contributions of these studies, there nevertheless remains a wide range of unanswered questions. Much work has focused on a specific level of funding (local, national, international) or a specific level of schooling (primary, secondary, higher education). There is still much to be learned by emphasizing the interdependence of different levels of funding, especially during transitional stages -e.g. from decentralized to centralized systems -and the transfer of funding models from one level to the other -e.g. from primary to secondary education. Moreover, contemporary issues like school vouchers, student loans and more generally the funding of university -studied by sociologists and economists -would be more clearly apprehended if situated in a broad historical perspective. Finally, the relation between funding models and the content of educational policies needs to be further analyzed.
Worlds of Social Policies: Local and global dimensions of change since 1945, 2020
Worlds of Social Policies: Local and global dimensions of change since 1945
(6-7 February 2020, ... more Worlds of Social Policies: Local and global dimensions of change since 1945
(6-7 February 2020, Lisbon, Portugal)
Organization: Research project Worlds of (Under)Development: processes and legacies of the Portuguese colonial empire in a comparative perspective (1945-1975), Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Keynotes: Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) and Joseph Hodge (West Virginia University)
Scientific Committee:
Joana Brites (University of Coimbra)
Cláudia Castelo (University of Coimbra)
Philip Havik (New University of Lisbon)
Joseph Hodge (West Virginia University)
Steven Jensen (Danish Institute for Human Rights)
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra)
Alexander Keese (University of Geneva)
Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva)
Damiano Matasci (University of Geneva)
José Pedro Monteiro (University of Coimbra)
Description:
Prolonging and reinventing dynamics visible in the interwar period, one of the most salient processes associated with the aftermath of the Second World War was the internationalisation of arguments, debates, norms and policies dealing with social issues. The tentative definition and implementation of standards and policies aiming at human welfare, through the (re)distribution of and access to goods and resources, increasingly included international and transnational actors and expertise. The League of Nations had already promoted social policies in the fields of rural development, public health, labour, the protection of minorities, human trafficking and child welfare, but the range of topics being debated “internationally” would be greatly expanded after 1945. The emergence and consolidation of the United Nations, and its various specialised agencies, contributed to that process, creating platforms for cooperation and exchanges, and for disputes, between international (including imperial and colonial), transnational and national experts. The UN system fostered or expanded existing networks, which promoted the production, accumulation and circulation of different types of expertise. As a result, it standardised and perfected statistical tools while developing major doctrines of social engineering and specialised forms of local intervention in a global context. Thus, rethinking and planning societal change became a “hot topic”, and a subject of heightened competition during the Cold War. Heterogenous visions of “modernity” related to early Cold War dynamics had a direct bearing upon policies introduced by modernisingcolonial empires and post-colonial projects of state-building and found expression in the implementation of large-scale developmental schemes.
At a regional and global level, processes of cooperation and competition coexisted, in which multilateral agencies and networks played a major role. The importance of comparison was reinforced as a political tool by both colonial and post-colonial regimes. As accessible databases circulated, comparisons between social policies and their outcomes in the field of demography, education, labour, health, agriculture, nutrition, citizenship – and, more broadly, within the novel domain of human rights –, and other issues proliferated globally. Shaped by distinct ideological backgrounds and a great diversity of human and financial resources, the social dimensions of distinct political and economic goals and priorities gained major prominence through national, regional and global forums. Strongly embedded in developmental and modernising projects, these dimensions were to translate into a “geopolitics of welfarism” that would be gradually replaced by a market-based perspective following the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.
This conference will explore these dynamics in a comparative perspective in different chronologies and geographical settings, focusing on different actors operating in diverse contexts, in order to reassess traditional periodisations (e.g. colonial-postcolonial), geopolitical divisions (e.g. East West, North-South), analytical frameworks (e.g. “local” versus “metropolitan” versus “international”), and to fruitfully explore the connections, and tensions, between international and national social programmes and policies.
Topics of interest may include:
• The social problem: concepts, arguments, and institutions
• The (geo)politics of social change
• Social policies, developmentalism and the welfare state
• International expert networks and the circulation of social knowledge
• Searching for the modern worker and consumer: labour, markets taxation
• Health-related policies: social medicine, nutrition and sanitation
• Defining citizenship and human rights: cases and accomplishments
• Educating difference: the role of the state, governmental and non-governmental associations, private enterprises and religious missions
• Fostering production: land, agriculture and rural development
• Administering mobility: migration, refugees
• Sustainable cities: urbanization and housing policies
• Gendering social policies: family planning, birth control, or labour recruitment
Conference Language: English
Contact Info:
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Centre of Social Studies, University of Coimbra.
Email: [email protected]
Conference - Programme, 2019
Over the course of the last few years, the “transnational turn” in the social sciences has inspir... more Over the course of the last few years, the “transnational turn” in the social sciences has inspired a profound renewal of colonial and imperial history (Hedinger, Hée, 2018 ; Kreienbaum, Kamissek, 2016). A significant body of research has been investigating the dynamics of “imperial globalization” (Thomas, Thompson, 2014), as well as the vast array of “in-between” actors, spaces and institutions that have contributed to connecting countries and colonial territories of the world (Potter, Saha, 2015 ; Barth, Cvetkovski, 2015). Following this decentered approach, the study of the imperial past can offer a “bridge” toward global history and provide original insights into the ideological, institutional and technological mechanisms of contemporary globalization (Akita, 2002).
Bringing together senior researchers and young scholars, this workshop aims to further this debate by focusing on the history of the political, scientific and technical cooperation in European colonial empires in Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will shed light, on the one hand, on the wide range of collaborations that have been established between and beyond colonial administrations, in areas such as health, labor, security, and education, as well as natural and social sciences. On the other hand, the workshop aspires to connect the history of imperialism and internationalism (Bandeira Jerónimo, Monteiro, 2018). Special attention will be given to the role played by transnational actors – such as international organizations and private companies - in the coproduction of knowledge and in structuring “colonial circuits” (Stoler, Cooper, 1997).
Participants : Miguel Bandeira Jéronimo (Université de Lisbonne et de Coimbra) ; Marie-Luce Desgr... more Participants : Miguel Bandeira Jéronimo (Université de Lisbonne et de Coimbra) ; Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps (Université de Genève et de Manchester) ; Lucile Dreidemy (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) ; Juliette Dumont (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3) ; Damiano Matasci (Université de Lausanne) ; José Pedro Monteiro (Université de Coimbra) ; Eleanor Davey (Université de Manchester) ; Angela Villani (Université de Messine) ; Yi-Tang Lin (Université de Genève) ; Bernard Taithe (Université de Manchester)
Org. Damiano Matasci, Université de Lausanne, [email protected] ; Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, , University of Manchester-Geneva, [email protected].
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Research Project by Damiano Matasci
Conferences, Talks, Calls for Papers, and Events by Damiano Matasci
The goal of the conference is to examine the political, cultural, and activist circulations at the time of decolonization, as well as the redefinition of revolutionary and liberation imaginaries, discourses and practices that resulted from it, with particular emphasis on South-South connections.
The main working hypothesis is to reassess the role played by anti-colonialist, feminist, and anti-racist networks in Europe, both politically and culturally, thus contributing to shed new light on the global dimensions of the 1960s and 1970s.
(6-7 February 2020, Lisbon, Portugal)
Organization: Research project Worlds of (Under)Development: processes and legacies of the Portuguese colonial empire in a comparative perspective (1945-1975), Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Keynotes: Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) and Joseph Hodge (West Virginia University)
Scientific Committee:
Joana Brites (University of Coimbra)
Cláudia Castelo (University of Coimbra)
Philip Havik (New University of Lisbon)
Joseph Hodge (West Virginia University)
Steven Jensen (Danish Institute for Human Rights)
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra)
Alexander Keese (University of Geneva)
Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva)
Damiano Matasci (University of Geneva)
José Pedro Monteiro (University of Coimbra)
Description:
Prolonging and reinventing dynamics visible in the interwar period, one of the most salient processes associated with the aftermath of the Second World War was the internationalisation of arguments, debates, norms and policies dealing with social issues. The tentative definition and implementation of standards and policies aiming at human welfare, through the (re)distribution of and access to goods and resources, increasingly included international and transnational actors and expertise. The League of Nations had already promoted social policies in the fields of rural development, public health, labour, the protection of minorities, human trafficking and child welfare, but the range of topics being debated “internationally” would be greatly expanded after 1945. The emergence and consolidation of the United Nations, and its various specialised agencies, contributed to that process, creating platforms for cooperation and exchanges, and for disputes, between international (including imperial and colonial), transnational and national experts. The UN system fostered or expanded existing networks, which promoted the production, accumulation and circulation of different types of expertise. As a result, it standardised and perfected statistical tools while developing major doctrines of social engineering and specialised forms of local intervention in a global context. Thus, rethinking and planning societal change became a “hot topic”, and a subject of heightened competition during the Cold War. Heterogenous visions of “modernity” related to early Cold War dynamics had a direct bearing upon policies introduced by modernisingcolonial empires and post-colonial projects of state-building and found expression in the implementation of large-scale developmental schemes.
At a regional and global level, processes of cooperation and competition coexisted, in which multilateral agencies and networks played a major role. The importance of comparison was reinforced as a political tool by both colonial and post-colonial regimes. As accessible databases circulated, comparisons between social policies and their outcomes in the field of demography, education, labour, health, agriculture, nutrition, citizenship – and, more broadly, within the novel domain of human rights –, and other issues proliferated globally. Shaped by distinct ideological backgrounds and a great diversity of human and financial resources, the social dimensions of distinct political and economic goals and priorities gained major prominence through national, regional and global forums. Strongly embedded in developmental and modernising projects, these dimensions were to translate into a “geopolitics of welfarism” that would be gradually replaced by a market-based perspective following the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.
This conference will explore these dynamics in a comparative perspective in different chronologies and geographical settings, focusing on different actors operating in diverse contexts, in order to reassess traditional periodisations (e.g. colonial-postcolonial), geopolitical divisions (e.g. East West, North-South), analytical frameworks (e.g. “local” versus “metropolitan” versus “international”), and to fruitfully explore the connections, and tensions, between international and national social programmes and policies.
Topics of interest may include:
• The social problem: concepts, arguments, and institutions
• The (geo)politics of social change
• Social policies, developmentalism and the welfare state
• International expert networks and the circulation of social knowledge
• Searching for the modern worker and consumer: labour, markets taxation
• Health-related policies: social medicine, nutrition and sanitation
• Defining citizenship and human rights: cases and accomplishments
• Educating difference: the role of the state, governmental and non-governmental associations, private enterprises and religious missions
• Fostering production: land, agriculture and rural development
• Administering mobility: migration, refugees
• Sustainable cities: urbanization and housing policies
• Gendering social policies: family planning, birth control, or labour recruitment
Conference Language: English
Contact Info:
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Centre of Social Studies, University of Coimbra.
Email: [email protected]
Bringing together senior researchers and young scholars, this workshop aims to further this debate by focusing on the history of the political, scientific and technical cooperation in European colonial empires in Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will shed light, on the one hand, on the wide range of collaborations that have been established between and beyond colonial administrations, in areas such as health, labor, security, and education, as well as natural and social sciences. On the other hand, the workshop aspires to connect the history of imperialism and internationalism (Bandeira Jerónimo, Monteiro, 2018). Special attention will be given to the role played by transnational actors – such as international organizations and private companies - in the coproduction of knowledge and in structuring “colonial circuits” (Stoler, Cooper, 1997).
Org. Damiano Matasci, Université de Lausanne, [email protected] ; Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, , University of Manchester-Geneva, [email protected].
The goal of the conference is to examine the political, cultural, and activist circulations at the time of decolonization, as well as the redefinition of revolutionary and liberation imaginaries, discourses and practices that resulted from it, with particular emphasis on South-South connections.
The main working hypothesis is to reassess the role played by anti-colonialist, feminist, and anti-racist networks in Europe, both politically and culturally, thus contributing to shed new light on the global dimensions of the 1960s and 1970s.
(6-7 February 2020, Lisbon, Portugal)
Organization: Research project Worlds of (Under)Development: processes and legacies of the Portuguese colonial empire in a comparative perspective (1945-1975), Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Keynotes: Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) and Joseph Hodge (West Virginia University)
Scientific Committee:
Joana Brites (University of Coimbra)
Cláudia Castelo (University of Coimbra)
Philip Havik (New University of Lisbon)
Joseph Hodge (West Virginia University)
Steven Jensen (Danish Institute for Human Rights)
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra)
Alexander Keese (University of Geneva)
Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva)
Damiano Matasci (University of Geneva)
José Pedro Monteiro (University of Coimbra)
Description:
Prolonging and reinventing dynamics visible in the interwar period, one of the most salient processes associated with the aftermath of the Second World War was the internationalisation of arguments, debates, norms and policies dealing with social issues. The tentative definition and implementation of standards and policies aiming at human welfare, through the (re)distribution of and access to goods and resources, increasingly included international and transnational actors and expertise. The League of Nations had already promoted social policies in the fields of rural development, public health, labour, the protection of minorities, human trafficking and child welfare, but the range of topics being debated “internationally” would be greatly expanded after 1945. The emergence and consolidation of the United Nations, and its various specialised agencies, contributed to that process, creating platforms for cooperation and exchanges, and for disputes, between international (including imperial and colonial), transnational and national experts. The UN system fostered or expanded existing networks, which promoted the production, accumulation and circulation of different types of expertise. As a result, it standardised and perfected statistical tools while developing major doctrines of social engineering and specialised forms of local intervention in a global context. Thus, rethinking and planning societal change became a “hot topic”, and a subject of heightened competition during the Cold War. Heterogenous visions of “modernity” related to early Cold War dynamics had a direct bearing upon policies introduced by modernisingcolonial empires and post-colonial projects of state-building and found expression in the implementation of large-scale developmental schemes.
At a regional and global level, processes of cooperation and competition coexisted, in which multilateral agencies and networks played a major role. The importance of comparison was reinforced as a political tool by both colonial and post-colonial regimes. As accessible databases circulated, comparisons between social policies and their outcomes in the field of demography, education, labour, health, agriculture, nutrition, citizenship – and, more broadly, within the novel domain of human rights –, and other issues proliferated globally. Shaped by distinct ideological backgrounds and a great diversity of human and financial resources, the social dimensions of distinct political and economic goals and priorities gained major prominence through national, regional and global forums. Strongly embedded in developmental and modernising projects, these dimensions were to translate into a “geopolitics of welfarism” that would be gradually replaced by a market-based perspective following the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.
This conference will explore these dynamics in a comparative perspective in different chronologies and geographical settings, focusing on different actors operating in diverse contexts, in order to reassess traditional periodisations (e.g. colonial-postcolonial), geopolitical divisions (e.g. East West, North-South), analytical frameworks (e.g. “local” versus “metropolitan” versus “international”), and to fruitfully explore the connections, and tensions, between international and national social programmes and policies.
Topics of interest may include:
• The social problem: concepts, arguments, and institutions
• The (geo)politics of social change
• Social policies, developmentalism and the welfare state
• International expert networks and the circulation of social knowledge
• Searching for the modern worker and consumer: labour, markets taxation
• Health-related policies: social medicine, nutrition and sanitation
• Defining citizenship and human rights: cases and accomplishments
• Educating difference: the role of the state, governmental and non-governmental associations, private enterprises and religious missions
• Fostering production: land, agriculture and rural development
• Administering mobility: migration, refugees
• Sustainable cities: urbanization and housing policies
• Gendering social policies: family planning, birth control, or labour recruitment
Conference Language: English
Contact Info:
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Centre of Social Studies, University of Coimbra.
Email: [email protected]
Bringing together senior researchers and young scholars, this workshop aims to further this debate by focusing on the history of the political, scientific and technical cooperation in European colonial empires in Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will shed light, on the one hand, on the wide range of collaborations that have been established between and beyond colonial administrations, in areas such as health, labor, security, and education, as well as natural and social sciences. On the other hand, the workshop aspires to connect the history of imperialism and internationalism (Bandeira Jerónimo, Monteiro, 2018). Special attention will be given to the role played by transnational actors – such as international organizations and private companies - in the coproduction of knowledge and in structuring “colonial circuits” (Stoler, Cooper, 1997).
Org. Damiano Matasci, Université de Lausanne, [email protected] ; Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, , University of Manchester-Geneva, [email protected].
Le livre adopte une perspective de recherche originale qui remet en cause les frontières classiques de l’analyse historique, trop souvent cloisonnée à la seule sphère nationale, et permet ainsi de placer les débats scolaires hexagonaux dans les circuits européens et mondiaux des idées pédagogiques.
Conference 2022 is a fascinating development in the
discipline of history in the last decade: the rising interest in
trans- and interimperial histories. These build on studies
showing that a single empire’s metropole and colonies
need to be empirically and conceptually integrated. In the
first decade of the 21st century, such more contextualized
and decentered histories of empire started evolving into
trans- and interimperial histories proper. Inspired by an
earlier turn to transnational and global histories, respective
historians have been critiquing a deeply rooted and
ultimately nationally-biased tendency, by many historians
of empire, to focus empirical research and even conceptual
conclusions on one single empire. The rise of trans- and
interimperial histories crystallized by the 2010s—though it
was, one may say, predated by older studies of non-
European modern empires. While methodologically
dissimilar to present trans- and interimperial studies, these
studies quasi by necessity paid considerable attention to
(often unequal) relationships especially with modern
European and American empires.
The fundamental objective of the present conference is
to take stock of this fascinating, partly old though mainly
new field of historical inquiry as it regards the modern
period; to bring together people who work on diverse transand
interimperial themes, approaches, and geographical
areas; and to chart possible future research synergies,
prospects, and trajectories.
To this effect, the conference, which will feature a keynote
by a preeminent scholar of the Japanese Empire,
Louise Young, brings to the Graduate Institute in Geneva
about forty participants whose studies involve the Belgian,
British, Qing Chinese, French, German, Habsburg, Qajar
Iranian, Italian, Japanese, Ottoman, Portuguese, Russian,
and US-American empires, and who will speak on themes
ranging from methodological and historiographical reflections
to regions, labor, economy, settlers and agriculture,
war and violence, culture, institutions and knowledge,
race, law, and nation(alism)s.
Issue coordinated by Damiano Matasci (Université de Genève) and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (Université de Coimbra)
Editorial coordination (RHCA) by Céline Labrune-Badiane and Martin Mourre
The double issue of the Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique explores the wide range of connections, transfers and exchanges that spanned the borders of colonial empires between the end of the 19th century and the 1960s. More specifically, its aim is to contribute to decentering the history of Africa by placing the study of mobility at the heart of the reflection. Based on a variety of case studies embracing the whole continent, the contributions unveil little-known or understudied colonial circuits, as well as the dynamics of cooperation and competition between a wide range of international, imperial, colonial, and African actors. They also highlight connections with other regions of the world and provide original perspectives for understanding the complex transactions that shaped, and were shaped by, the trajectories towards political emancipation. Taken as a whole, the articles ultimately demonstrate the heuristic potential of trans-imperial history and pave the way for new research.
FRENCH
Numéro double coordonné par Damiano Matasci (Université de Genève) et Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (Université de Coimbra)
Coordination éditoriale au sein de RHCA par Céline Labrune-Badiane et Martin Mourre
Ce numéro double de la Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique explore les coopérations et les circulations qui se sont déployées entre et par-delà les empires coloniaux de la fin du XIXe siècle aux années 1960. En plaçant l’étude des mobilités au cœur de la réflexion, il vise plus précisément à alimenter un projet de décentrement de l’histoire de l’Afrique. Fondées sur des études de cas variées et embrassant l’ensemble du continent, les contributions dévoilent des circuits coloniaux encore peu connus ainsi que les dynamiques de collaboration et de compétition entre une vaste gamme d’acteurs internationaux, impériaux, coloniaux et africains. Elles mettent aussi en lumière les connexions avec d’autres régions du monde et amènent des perspectives originales pour comprendre les complexes transactions qui accompagnent l’accès aux indépendances. Pris dans leur ensemble, les articles montrent finalement le potentiel heuristique de l’histoire transimpériale et ouvrent la voie à de nouvelles recherches.
Contributions of Bertrand Taithe, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Eleanor Davey, Angela Villani, Juliette Dumont, Yi-Tang Lin, José Pedro Monteiro, Lucile Dreidemy, Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Damiano Matasci
Policies, Paradigms, and Entanglements, 1890s-1980s (London: Palgrave, 2019), pp. 1-28.
(enseignement de Damiano Matasci)
This dissertation focuses on the internationalization of the « school reform » in France between 1870 and the first half oh the 20th century. The aim is to rethink the history of the « école républicaine », mainly written from a national perspective, by examining the interactions between the construction of the French school system and foreign experiences. The dissertation is organized in three parts and explores a complex system of exchanges, contacts and borrowings which participated in the construction of the modern school system. The first two parts analyze the production of knowledge on foreign school systems, the construction of school models and the role of French reformers within the educational international movement during the second half of the 19th century. The third part examines the uses of foreign references and the impact of the international circulation of pedagogical ideas in the setting up of primary and secondary education in France. The last chapter finally analyses the evolution of the internationalization process during the interwar period, and more precisely the action of international networks and organizations in the educational field. By crossing sources of several national archives, this dissertation thus contributes to place the history of French education in the European context.
Issue coordinated by Damiano Matasci (Université de Genève) and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (Université de Coimbra)
Editorial coordination (RHCA) by Céline Labrune-Badiane and Martin Mourre
The double issue of the Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique explores the wide range of connections, transfers and exchanges that spanned the borders of colonial empires between the end of the 19th century and the 1960s. More specifically, its aim is to contribute to decentering the history of Africa by placing the study of mobility at the heart of the reflection. Based on a variety of case studies embracing the whole continent, the contributions unveil little-known or understudied colonial circuits, as well as the dynamics of cooperation and competition between a wide range of international, imperial, colonial, and African actors. They also highlight connections with other regions of the world and provide original perspectives for understanding the complex transactions that shaped, and were shaped by, the trajectories towards political emancipation. Taken as a whole, the articles ultimately demonstrate the heuristic potential of trans-imperial history and pave the way for new research.
FRENCH
Numéro double coordonné par Damiano Matasci (Université de Genève) et Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (Université de Coimbra)
Coordination éditoriale au sein de RHCA par Céline Labrune-Badiane et Martin Mourre
Ce numéro double de la Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique explore les coopérations et les circulations qui se sont déployées entre et par-delà les empires coloniaux de la fin du XIXe siècle aux années 1960. En plaçant l’étude des mobilités au cœur de la réflexion, il vise plus précisément à alimenter un projet de décentrement de l’histoire de l’Afrique. Fondées sur des études de cas variées et embrassant l’ensemble du continent, les contributions dévoilent des circuits coloniaux encore peu connus ainsi que les dynamiques de collaboration et de compétition entre une vaste gamme d’acteurs internationaux, impériaux, coloniaux et africains. Elles mettent aussi en lumière les connexions avec d’autres régions du monde et amènent des perspectives originales pour comprendre les complexes transactions qui accompagnent l’accès aux indépendances. Pris dans leur ensemble, les articles montrent finalement le potentiel heuristique de l’histoire transimpériale et ouvrent la voie à de nouvelles recherches.