SÉNÉGAL - Comment le Sénégal a décolonisé sa diplomatie – à commencer par Kennedy et Senghor / SENEGAL - How Senegal decolonised diplomacy – starting with Kennedy and Senghor

Titre / Title:

Comment le Sénégal a décolonisé sa diplomatie – à commencer par Kennedy et Senghor

How Senegal decolonised diplomacy – starting with Kennedy and Senghor

Par / By:

Yohann C. Ripert, 

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Stetson University

Publié /Published:

The Conversation, April 2022

français: 

https://theconversation.com/comment-le-senegal-a-decolonise-sa-diplomatie-a-commencer-par-kennedy-et-senghor-181357

 

english:  

https://theconversation.com/how-senegal-decolonised-diplomacy-starting-with-kennedy-and-senghor-180421

Citation de l'article:

Dans sa lutte pour se libérer de la France, le peuple sénégalais a parfaitement compris qu’obtenir son indépendance ne suffirait pas. La véritable victoire serait d’obtenir une indépendance durable.  

 

Soixante-deux ans plus tard, l'un des jalons les plus significatifs est ce que j'appelle la « diplomatie décolonisée » du Sénégal.  

 

En effet, on ne peut s’empêcher de se demander si la célèbre stabilité politique du Sénégal est le résultat de sa diplomatie ou sa cause. français 

From the article:

In their fight for freedom from France, what the people of Senegal keenly understood was that securing independence would simply not be enough. True victory would be achieved by a sustainable independence.  

 

Sixty two years later, one of the most significant markers of the victory is what I call Senegal’s “de-colonised diplomacy”.  

 

Indeed, one cannot but wonder whether the celebrated political stability of Senegal has been the result of its diplomacy or its cause.

 

ALSO SEE

 

Ripert, Yohann C. 2021. Decolonizing Diplomacy: Senghor, Kennedy, and the Practice of Ideology. African Studies Review. 

Click here for more information 

 

Student movements and politics in Latin America: a historical reconceptualization [Scholarly Article - Higher Education, 4 February 2021]

Title:

Student movements and politics in Latin America: a historical reconceptualization

 

Author:

Imanol Ordorika

Affiliations: 

Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

&

University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Published:

Higher Education, 4 February 2021

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-020-00656-6

Abstract:

Student movements have played a significant political role in the history of Latin America. Since the beginning of the 20th century until now, students have transformed their universities, resisted totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and struggled against US military occupations. In the early 1900s these movements promoted university reforms, autonomy, shared governance, Latin Americanism, and university obligations towards social change. During the 1960s and 1970s, they fought for democratization and committed to attempts for profound radical transformations of society in many countries. In the 1980s student movements resisted structural adjustment policies and attempts to increase tuition. A decade later they continued to defend public universities against privatization and marketization brought about by the neoliberal model. In spite of these historical facts, mainstream literature in the 1980s and 1990s predicted the decline and even death of student movements in the region. A historical reconceptualization of student mobilization is presented in this article in order to fully grasp the impact and sustained presence of student movements in Latin America up to the present day. In this way it is possible to understand the existing links between movements over time and across countries, the continuity and shifts in student discourses, demands and strategies, and the emergence of new struggles for gender equality and to eradicate violence against women.

Toward a Framework for (Re)Thinking the Ethics and Politics of International Student Mobility [Scholarly Article - Journal of Studies in International Education, 7 December 2020]

Title:

Toward a Framework for (Re)Thinking the Ethics and Politics of International Student Mobility

 

Author:

Peidong Yang

Published:

Journal of Studies in International Education, 7 December 2020

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1028315319889891

Abstract:

In recent years, scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) has proliferated across various social science disciplines. Of late, an interest in the ethics and politics of ISM seems to be emerging, as more scholars begin to consider critically questions about rights, responsibility, justice, equality, and so forth that inhere in the thorny relationships between ISM stakeholders. To date, however, these discussions remain largely scattered. Bringing together these scattered conversations in literature, this article outlines elements of a framework for (re)thinking the ethics and politics of ISM. The proposed framework identifies eight key ISM actors between whom various ethical and political relationships arise, where these relationships range from the social to the institutional. Furthermore, the framework discusses four sets of concepts from the literature deemed pertinent in thinking further about ISM ethics and politics. This proposed framework is aimed at stimulating further conversations and efforts to make ISM more socially equitable and sustainable.

Centre For Risk Analysis (CRA), South Africa - SA in 2020: year in REVIEW by Frans Cronje & David Ansara

Title:

SA in 2020: year in REVIEW

 

Published:

Centre For Risk Analysis, 30 December 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fR0G-E32T8

 

Description of video (1:09:37): 

South Africa was buffeted by a tumultuous set of events in 2020. Frans Cronje and David Ansara of the CRA provide a retrospective on the year that was from a political, economic and social perspective.

WEBINAR (Thursday 27 November 2020) hosted by Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) - The involvement of the military in politics; The case of Mali

Webinar:

The involvement of the military in politics; The case of Mali

 

Hosted by:

Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

Date:

Thursday, 27 November 2020

Time:

11h00 - 13h00 SAST (South African Time)

Focus:

The seminar contextualises the coup within the increasing insecurity challenges in Mali and its impact on governance in the sub-region and Africa as a whole. Emphasis would be on article 4 (p) of the AU Constitutive Act which prohibits the unconstitutional change of government in the continent. The panellists would address (1) the implications of the involvement of the military in African politics, (2) assessing ECOWAS intervention in the country after the coup (3) and implications of the coup on peace and security in the sub-region.

For more information, Zoom link & to register before event:

http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/events/seminars/involvement-of-military-in-politics

Short Article - Brexit: Where now for the UK academy?

Title:
Brexit: Where now for the UK academy?

Authors:
Simon Usherwood & Tanya Bueltmann

Published:
Times Higher Education, 30 January 2020

From the article:
"As the UK finally leaves the European Union after years of turmoil, Simon Usherwood says it is time for remain-supporting academics to focus on the future. But Tanya Bueltmann says that for EU academics the scars are too deep."

To read this article:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/brexit-where-now-uk-academy

Scholarly Article (Dec 2019): Toward a Framework for (Re)Thinking the Ethics and Politics of International Student Mobility

Title:
Toward a framework for (re)thinking the ethics and politics of international student mobility

Author:
Peidong Yang

Published:
Journal of Studies in International Education, Article first publised on 7 December 2019.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315319889891

From the abstract:
"In recent years, scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) has proliferated across various social science disciplines. Of late, an interest in the ethics and politics of ISM seems to be emerging, as more scholars begin to consider critically questions about rights, responsibility, justice, equality, and so forth that inhere in the thorny relationships between ISM stakeholders. To date, however, these discussions remain largely scattered. Bringing together these scattered conversations in literature, this article outlines elements of a framework for (re)thinking the ethics and politics of ISM."