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Speaker(s): Prof. Jean-Loup Amselle.
Jean-Loup Amselle, Professor at EHESS, Paris. Author of “Globalisation and Culture: New Perspectives on the book: Branchements: Anthropologie de l’Universalité des Cultures”.
Co-referent: Dr. Wim van Binsbergen, Professor of Intercultural Philosophy, ASC, Leiden “The Spectre of Neo-Diffusionism haunts Globalisation Studies”
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A paper by Amselle is available at the ASC secretariat.
One of the main challenges of globalisation studies has been the urgent need to develop a theoretical approach to phenomena of cultural globalisation. Despite the avalanche of research and writing on globalisation over the past decade, this challenge has rarely been met. An exception is the brilliant recent book by Jean-Loup Amselle (EHESS, Paris): Branchements: Anthropologie de l'universalité des cultures (2001). Adressing various topics including the methodological requirements of research into cultural globalisation, the rise of neo-diffusionism, and the emergence of identitary intellectual movements such as Afrocentrism, Professor Amselle makes explicit, explores, and seeks to bring to greater clarification, central analytical and epistemological questions of globalisation research today. In doing so, his research critically converges with that of the Theme group on globalisation of the African Studies Centre, Leiden; that theme group's chair, Wim van Binsbergen, in reaction to Jean-Loup Amselle's book and oral presentation, will bring out some of these correspondences and differences, as an invitation to further constructive discussion.
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