HomeMinority Uses of the Past and Dynamics of Power in the Americas (19th–21st Centuries)

Minority Uses of the Past and Dynamics of Power in the Americas (19th–21st Centuries)

Usages minoritaires du passé et dynamiques de pouvoir dans les Amériques (XIXᵉ–XXIᵉ siècle)

Usos minoritarios del pasado y dinámicas de poder en las Américas (siglos XIX–XXI)

Usos minoritários do passado e dinâmicas de poder nas Américas (séculos XIX–XXI)

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Published on Monday, February 02, 2026

Abstract

This conference follows on from an initial meeting, which focused on the forms of uses of the past, to examine the consequences of these uses and their results, both on national history and on minorities, as well as on disciplines and their methods. Researchers from different disciplines are invited to reflect on the same subjects from the perspective of their methods: anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians, specialists in literary studies, cultural studies, art historians, and linguists. The following four themes may guide proposals for papers.

 

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Argument

The diversity of minority situations in the Americas, resulting from a long history of population mixing and colonial diversity, implies a plurality of representations of multiple pasts. Different uses of the past point to a potential fragmentation of “collective memories” (Lavabre, 2020; Schwaller et al. (Ed.), 2010; Bonniol, 2007). Minorities in the Americas, whether historical, racial, ethnic, religious, or diasporic, according to the “nomenclature” proposed by geographer Pierre George (George, 1984, p. 15), also differ in terms of their numbers, dispersion or, conversely, concentration, legal status, and economic situation, to the extent that it seems difficult to analyze them in the same way or to compare them.  However, at the very least, they share the same minority experience: being categorized, willingly or not, in a power relationship that is imposed on them, sometimes with the awareness that they share common characteristics. Their past has often been marginalized in favor of a national memory and history. We propose to approach the minority experience primarily as a relationship to the past, a relationship that takes on different forms. Ethnorace minorities may ultimately only survive through the preservation and transmission of their past, in order to resist the erasure that threatens them due to the dominance of majority narratives (Candau, 1998; Lomnitz-Adler, 2018).  

By “past,” we mean not only the evocation of memory or history (Hartog and Revel 2001), but also, in the broadest sense of the term, that which can be transmitted or evoked, such as traditions, objects, narratives, and history, but which can also be marginalized, forgotten, rendered invisible, or destroyed. The contemporary omnipresence of memory issues has been reflected in numerous research projects (Gensburger and Lefranc, 2023; Jelin, 2002; Jelin, 2020; Rousso Henry, 2016; Wüstenberg, 2020; Michel, 2005). We propose to open up new perspectives by abandoning the majority viewpoint, which is expressed in terms of domination and assignment, and instead situate ourselves from the minority viewpoint. The minority experience involves numerous uses of the past, which enable people to exist in the present and sometimes to respond to identity assignment and the stigma that accompanies it. This involves situating ourselves at the level of practices and representations in order to grasp the results of minority uses of the past.

The concept of “minorities” has given rise to numerous attempts at definition (Simon, 2006; Tartakowsky, 2020), initially based on distinctive “physical or cultural” characteristics that lead to “differentiated and unequal” treatment (Wirth, 1964, p. 245), then based on a set of criteria: subordination, specific characteristics, sense of belonging, family transmission (Wagley et al., 1958, p. 10). However, minorities do not exist outside of social relations (Guillaumin 1985) and in order to avoid any naturalization, they must be considered through the lens of power relations and the logic of assignment that they (power relations) imply (Policar, 2020, p. 119). The term “minority” implies the dialectic of inclusion/exclusion within a national or regional whole, as it can also refer to a diasporic dimension, whether linked to migration, a shared historical experience, or an imaginary space for the circulation of ideas (Gilroy, 1993; Peretz, 2004; Banerjee et al., 2012).

Thus, despite its ambiguities, the concept of minority allows us to highlight the experiences of groups confined to the margins of history, far removed from the mainstream narrative (Laithier et al., 2008; Capotorti, 1991). The past, in its presence in the present, is traversed by power relations that marginalize certain facts in the service of a national history presented as homogeneous and continuous. The concept of minority is a form of “objective discrimination” that is legitimized on a symbolic level. This raises the question of the extent to which challenging the minority status serves to confirm the group's existence (Voutat et al., 1997, pp. 148-149). The uses of the past play an essential role in these different dynamics, as do externally imposed categorizations and efforts to gain recognition of discrimination.

State memory policies have been analyzed by historians who question their results (Gensburger et al., 2017; Dujisin, 2020; Araujo, 2016). From the perspective of minority experience, it is possible to consider minorities in terms of their capacity for action (Wüstenberg, 2020), through various forms of evocation of the past (literary, artistic, intimate), such as those relating to infrapolitics (Gensburger, 2023; Rosenzweig et al., 1998; Jaramillo Marín, 2012; Farrell-Banks, 2023). More than ever, the tensions of the present are expressed through challenges to memory, as the dismantling of monuments has powerfully demonstrated since 2020 (Gensburger and Wüstenberg, 2023; Tillier, 2022; Chantiluke et al., 2018; Hicks, 2025; Thompson, 2022; Gill et al., 2021; Thompson, 2022). Challenges to the legacies of colonial and slave-based heritage are now an important form of anti-racist action (Aje et al. (eds.), 2018; Chivallon, 2012; Araujo Ana Lucia, 2010; Barre, 1983).

Their occasionally spectacular nature should not obscure the fact that memory most often travels underground, in the registers of infrapolitics (Scott, 2006; Marche, 2012), only to resurface forcefully during brief episodes of mobilisation. Conversely, “memory entrepreneurs” publicly promote minority history (Pollak, 1993, p. 29; Becker, 1963, p. 147; Gensburger, 2010; Autry, 2017). Activists, genealogists, historians, museographers, teachers, often self-taught, they develop practices of collecting and archiving, build monuments, and found museums (Le Dantec-Lowry et al., 2016; Meringolo, 2021; Maheo, 2024; Burns, 2013; Morgan, 2021; Escallón, 2023; Sansone, 2013).

This conference aims to foster dialogue between different fields of research and disciplinary approaches. It follows on from an initial meeting, which focused on the forms of uses of the past, to examine the consequences of these uses and their results, both on national history and on minorities, as well as on disciplines and their methods. Researchers from different disciplines are invited to reflect on the same subjects from the perspective of their methods: anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians, specialists in literary studies, cultural studies, art historians, and linguists. The following four themes may guide proposals for papers.

Facing national history: including, distinguishing, asserting oneself

What are the results of minority uses of the past? Can they contribute to revisions of national history, to a form of decentering the narrative? (Chakrabarty, 2000; Larré, 2009; Bodenstein et al., 2024). What role do they play in the formation of social worlds, identity categories, and collective memory (Célestine, 2018; Gensburger and Lefranc, 2023; Joutard, 2010; Wang, 2018; McGrattan, 2012)? Do they enable effective challenges to discrimination and marginalization, or even changes in representations (Hooks, 1992; Hall (ed.), 1997; Rocksborough-Smith, 2018; Poulot, 2022; Gruson, 2011)? How do traces of minority experiences become embedded in representations, but also in the landscape (Peretz, 2024; Barrère et al., 2025; Gensburger et al., 2021, p. 1)? However, these uses risk freezing minority identities in the past, in a denied contemporaneity that has often characterized the anthropological gaze and museum collections (Modest et al., 2016; Fabian, 1983). Finally, how does the memorial action of marginalized groups relate to the memorial policies of the authorities?

Heritage, museums, and legitimizing minority histories

A central issue in minority uses of the past lies in the appropriation—often conflictual—of heritage and museum institutions. Long shaped by homogenizing national narratives, museums and heritage policies are now becoming spaces where affiliations are renegotiated, silences are challenged, and strategies for historical legitimization are deployed. Ethnorace minorities are working to reinsert their experiences into these mechanisms: creating community museums, rewriting existing narratives, participating in decolonization programs, reinterpreting objects, and even making claims around places of memory (Chagas et al., 2014; Maheo, 2024). These appropriations are not only a quest for recognition, but also a desire to establish historical continuities, consolidate diasporic or indigenous identities, and counter processes of erasure or folklorization. Museums, archives, monuments, and family or community collections have become tools of power, visibility, and emancipation. Proposals for papers may consider how curatorial, artistic, or activist practices are disrupting established heritage frameworks; how minority actors are mobilizing these spaces to transmit, challenge, or transform representations of the past (Golding et al., 2013; Bodenstein et al., 2024; Hicks, 2025). Questions of reception and the potential “effects” of museums should also be considered (Poulot, 2022; Blanc et al., 2023).

Transmission, circulation, and hybridization of identity categories: what effects do they have on minorities?

How do past practices contribute to the continuity of minoritization and the construction of minority identity, in the search for authenticity and conformity to “tradition,” which can contribute to a form of essentialization (Lenclud, 1987)? However, these “authentic” narratives come into tension with new emerging representations, those of diasporic communities and other transnational groups, whether they refer to African, Indian, or other origins (Gilroy, 1993; Barre, 1983; Clifford, 2013; Benesch et al., 2006; Chivallon, 2008). Furthermore, it is possible to question the local fabrications of authenticity and its travesty.      Comparative approaches, which deal in parallel with various situations in different spaces, are also interesting and can also help to understand circulations and transfers. It is also important to consider circulation, starting with migration, but also cultural transfers in the digital age, in order to take into account the imagination of diasporic communities (Flores, 1995; Boumankhar, 2011; Fridman et al., 2020; Guenancia, 2017).

Concepts and methods: epistemological questions

While their uses are diverse, minority pasts are disjointed and discontinuous, to the point that one might wonder whether they share the same texture as the national narrative. How does the duration of a generation's memory relate to the suddenness of memorial mobilizations? (Koselleck 1990). The traces of minority pasts are more tenuous, their archives rarer (Kaplan, 2000; Foscarini et al., 2016; White, 2013; Flinn et al., 2009; Foote, 1990). These pasts do not cover the same spaces, do not follow the same chronologies, and sometimes do not follow the same logic with regard to the administration of evidence, which raises ontological questions about the past as such (Ricœur, 1998, p. 8). So, what methodological approaches can be used to achieve this? And which concepts should be selected? The terms “margins” and “peripheries” have been used to emphasize the spatial dimension and decentering. For their part, decolonial currents challenge the universalism of what is described as Western epistemology (Mignolo, 2011; Policar, 2021; Schaub, 2024; Colin et al., 2023; Bertho et al., 2021; Soumahoro, 2022), propose a form of scientific “polycentrism” (Bertho, 2025, p. 13), or even put forward an epistemology of perspective, which is potentially opposed to disciplinary methods (Soumahoro, 2020; Agudel et al., 2015). Ultimately, to what extent could this “rise of memory and heritage” be a sign of a “perpetual present,” that of presentism as defined by François Hartog? (Hartog et al., 2014, p. 16).

Research on minority groups, and more broadly on issues of memory, exile, identity, and post-colonialism, cannot today be dissociated from the political context in which it takes place, in a climate that is increasingly hostile to the production of critical knowledge, affecting not only our subjects and fields of study, but also our methods, our writing, and our means of transmission. This conference aims to reflect on contemporary forms of resistance through research, creation, and civic engagement. Resisting today means documenting, transmitting, and connecting. It means making minority voices heard, questioning dominant narratives, and opening spaces for dialogue and shared memory. It means refusing to consider migration as a “problem” and affirming, on the contrary, that it constitutes a fundamental prism for thinking about our societies, their tensions, their dynamics, and their futures. From this perspective, research plays an essential role in constructing collective imaginaries that are more open, more just, and more supportive.

Submission guidelines

Abstracts of approximately 500 words should be sent to the organizers, along with a short CV, to the following address: raconterlesminorites@gmail.com before April 15, 2026.

This call is open to both young and experienced researchers. Participants are invited to request financial assistance from their affiliated laboratory to cover travel and accommodation expenses.

Schedule

  • Submission deadline: April 15, 2026
  • Notification of selection: June 15, 2026
  • Conference dates: Thursday, November 26, 2026, Friday, November 27, 2026
  • Location: Condorcet Campus.

Convenors

  • Andréa Delaplace, Docteure, centre de recherche Histoire culturelle et sociale des arts, (HiCSA) de l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
  • Maud Delevaux, Docteure en anthropologie, IFEA/UMIFRE 17 CNRS/MAEDI-USR 3337 América Latina
  • Olivier Maheo, Collaborateur de l’Institut d’histoire du temps présent, IHTP, UMR CNRS/Université Paris 8 

Scientific Committee

  • Gabrielle Adjerad, Maîtresse de conférences, CHCSC – UVSQ 
  • Lawrence Aje, Maître de conférences, DIRE, Université de la réunion 
  • Yves Bergeron, Professeur de muséologie à l’UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Christine Chivallon, Directrice de recherche CNRS, PHEEAC-UMR 8053
  • Elisabeth Cunin, Directrice de recherche (DR2) à l’IRD, UMR URMIS
  • Dorothée Delacroix, maîtresse de conférences en anthropologie, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Institut des hautes études de l’Amérique latine (IHEAL), Centre de recherche et de documentation sur les Amériques (CREDA, UMR CNRS/USN 7227, UMR IRD 280).
  • Alvar De la Llosa, Professeur des universités, Langues et Civilisations Étrangères – Lyon 2 
  • Paola Domingo, Maîtresse de conférences IRIEC - Montpellier 3- Paul Valéry
  • Anne-Claire Fauquez, Maîtresse de conférences de Civilisation américaine, Paris 8
  • Thomas Grillot, Chargé de recherches, IHTP, UMR 8244
  • Lionel Larré, Professeur des universités, CLIMAS – Bordeaux Montaigne
  • Jacques Leenhardt, Directeur d’Études, EHESS-EFISAL 
  • Nicola Lo Calzo, Docteur, CY Héritages
  • C. Rafael Martínez-Martínez, Professeur associé, Université Cardenal Herrera CEU, Valence
  • Pauline Peretz, Professeure, IHTP, Université Paris 8 – CNRS ; Institut Universitaire de France
  • Camille Riverti, Chargée de recherche, CREDA-CNRS
  • Jean Paul Rocchi, Professeur de Littératures et Cultures Américaines, université Gustave EiffelLISAA
  • Ian Rocksborough-Smith, Professeur, University of the Fraser Valley, Canada  
  • Lorena B. Rodríguez, Profeseure – Chercheure, UBA-CONICET, Argentine
  • Rogerio Rosa, Professeur : Teoria e Metodologia da História, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC)                                                          
  • Romy Sanchez, Chargée de recherche, IRHIS – CNRS
  • Mônica Raisa Schpun, Chercheure, Mondes américains - EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales
  • Anne Stefani, Professeure, CAS- Université de Toulouse 2, Jean Jaurès
  • Fabien Van Geert, Fabien Van Geert, Maître de conférences en Médiation culturelle, Sorbonne Nouvelle
  • Jean-Paul Zuniga, Directeur d'études EHESS, Centre de recherches historiques UMR 8558 

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Hybrid event (on site and online)


Date(s)

  • Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Keywords

  • usage du passé, minorité, mémoire, patrimoine, histoire publique, Amériques

Contact(s)

  • Olivier Maheo
    courriel : raconterlesminorites [at] gmail [dot] com

Information source

  • Olivier Maheo
    courriel : raconterlesminorites [at] gmail [dot] com

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Olivier Maheo, Andréa Delaplace, « Minority Uses of the Past and Dynamics of Power in the Americas (19th–21st Centuries) », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Monday, February 02, 2026, https://doi.org/10.58079/15lth

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