10th June 2008

Convenor: Dr Mahbub Gani 

Reading: Stefan Kipfer, 'Fanon and space: colonization, urbanization, and liberation from the colonial to the global city', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2007, volume 25, pages 701 - 726

This session we will be reading and examining a very playful paper which explores the recent Hijab controversy in France through the lens of Frantz Fanon’s work. Fanon is a highly influential figure practically as an anti-colonisation (for the liberation of Algeria from French colonisation) activist and theoretically as an intellectual and critique pre-empting post-colonial theory.

You might find the connections with the subject of Hijab rather tenuous, but the paper at least introduces the person and ideas of Fanon and shows an alternative critique and meanings based on neo-colonialist resistance for religious symbols.

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