Françoise Vergès, Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London & Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’Esclavage

Françoise Vergès is currently Consulting Professor at the Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and president of the Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’Esclavage (France). Françoise Vergès has written on vernacular practices of memories, on slavery and the economy of predation, the ambiguities of French abolitionism, French republican colonialism, colonial and postcolonial psychiatry in the French colonial empire, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, French postcolionality, postcolonial museography, the routes of migration and processes of creolization in the Indian Ocean world.