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Gildas Salmon

Gildas Salmon is a research fellow at LIER-FYT in Paris (CNRS-EHESS). His work focuses on the philosophy and history of social sciences. After initially exploring 20th-century French and American anthropology, he is now working on a genealogy of social sciences within the British Empire. He has published Les Structures de l’esprit. Lévi-Strauss et les mythes (The Structures of the Mind: Lévi-Strauss and Myths) Paris, Puf, 2013, and is preparing a book on Orientalist knowledge and power in British India entitled L’Empire de la supervision (The Empire of Supervision, to be published by La Découverte in 2026).

Essays

A Genealogy of Postcolonialism

The ability or inability of insiders to hear the silences that arise on the other side of the borders drawn by colonizing societies around themselves, to perceive them as the echo of missing voices, may constitute, for the victims of colonialism, an indication of whether they can place their hopes for a more just world in something other than violence.