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Françoise Vergès

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Françoise Vergès

Françoise Vergès received a PhD in Political Science from Berkley, University of California. Her publications include Amarres. Creolisations India-océanes (with Carpanin Marimoutou; 2003), Abolir l'esclavage: Une utopie coloniale (2001); and Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage (1999). She was awarded the 2006 Françoise Seligmann Foundation Prize Against Racism for her book La Mémoire enchaînée. Questions sur l'esclavage. She is a lecturer at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Articles by Françoise Vergès

Moorings: Indo-oceanic Creolizations
By Françoise Vergès & Carpanin Marimoutou
Moorings (amarres in French), in Reunion Island Creole a profoundly polysemous term, also means   link, ties, enchanted, bewitched, to be in love, to be enraptured, to be bonded, to care (amar lë…
Translated from French by David Ball & Nicole Ball
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