Avec le Brexit, la France est devenue le pays européen qui possède le plus d’héritages coloniaux sur la planète : 6 pays d’outre-mer (PTOM) dont la Polynésie, où Oscar Temaru (indépendantiste élu 6 fois président) vient d’accuser la France à la Cour Pénale internationale de crime contre l’humanité pour les 193 essais nucléaires (de 1960 à 1996) ; et 6 régions ultra-périphériques (RUP) dont la Guyane qui, depuis le mouvement social de 2017, connaît un débat citoyen pour un changement de (...) statut ainsi qu’une forte mobilisation contre les forages de Total et le consortium russo-canadien de la Montagne d’or, soutenue par le candidat amérindien d’Europe Écologie-les Verts. (shrink)

In this article, I’d like to account for my debt towards Guattari’s thought, by tracking the main phases of our exchanges related to my fieldwork in Australia. Guattari is often cited by English-speaking anthropologists but he is often ignored, or rejected, by a certain generation of French anthropologists. The articulation of existential territories with different systems of valorization and of ontological self-affirmation is in my view an important key in our effort to analyze from an anthropological point of view processes (...) of re-singularization and re-location in our current universe of globalized interactions. (shrink)

Résumé Face à la mésentente disqualifiante autour de l’autochtonie des peuples, il faut reconsidérer fondamentalement les raisons de la revendication autochtone. En effet, être autochtone, ce n’est pas tant appartenir à un lieu qu’offrir la pensée d’une expérimentation de manières d’agir autrement dans le monde en partant des positions hétéroclites de l’écart et de la séparation. Ces positions, initialement comprises dans l’extériorité cosmologique des Peuples Autochtones, leur permettent ainsi de résister, en se revendiquant d’eux-mêmes, aux hégémonies des modes d’administration des (...) populations. (shrink)

This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri people of Australia since 1979. She shows that the ways Aboriginal people actualise virtualities of their Dreaming space-time into collective networks of ritualised places resonate with Guattarian and Deleuzian concepts. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially women, Glowczewski draws on her own conversations with Guattari, and her debates with various scholars to deliver (...) an innovative agenda for radical anthropology. (shrink)

Aboriginal communities in Australia are exiles in their own country and are becoming prorgessively more like domestic refugees. As in the case of refugee camps they are not only subjects to constant harassment from agents of various Australian governmental organizations, but also by forces or representatives of the global market. Faced with globalization, Aborigines experience, hybrid articulations between modern technology and a nomadic lifestyle on a daily basis. Nevertheless, their local situation – which is the result of two centuries of (...) colonial history, remains dramatic. The hardship of their situation often culminates in violent and tragic events, as at Palm Island where riots broke out following the death of an Aborigine held in detention. Such events have the effect of polarizing relations between Australian society and Aboriginal communities. Why is it that Aborigines who remain with their communities and Aborigines who left both experience the same desolation today ? In order to answer this question – which concerns all the Indigenous people in Austrlia and beyond, it is necessary to employ the perspective of an anthropology of disaster survival, not in the sense of an aesthetic of misfortune and « bare life », but as an ethics of hope. (shrink)

Les Amérindiens de Guyane française et les Aborigènes d’Australie, comme d’autres peuples autochtones du monde réinsvestissent leurs savoirs médicinaux traditionnels et réélaborent des rituels pour se soigner et prendre soin de la terre. Comme Starhawk et les Wicca aux USA, en Europe aussi, de la Pologne à la France, des rites de bien-être et de renouage de liens avec la terre se réinventent, que ce soit par la musique et la danse, les festivals de chamanisme ou les ZAD qui réenchantent (...) la manière d’habiter le milieu. (shrink)

Philosopher and anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli is the author of several books criticising multicultural late liberalism in Australia and the United States. Over the past few years she has created the Karrabing Film Collective with Indigenous people from Northern Australia to produce short experimental narrations filmed using smart phones, partly improvised and inspired by what she calls the animist strategy. This article discusses how, in Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism, Povinelli articulates her figure of Animism, with two others, the Desert (...) and the Virus, so as to portray the projections of the life and death of humanity within our current geological era that some call or denounce as the Anthropocene. (shrink)