Locating Legacies: ’The Politics of Decolonisation’ with Françoise Vergès
Radicals in Conversation
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The Importance of Emancipation in Feminist Liberation Struggles
Gracie says her parents were anti-colonial activists and she grew up on La Reunion. She draws on philosopher Peter Eckers work to distinguish between colonisation, which he describes as an event or a period, and colonialism that persists into the present. Gracie: I'm not sure I understood everything because I was not there. But I really understood, yes. The plantation had been a colonial slave, you know, with slave and then to workers.
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