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Silyane Larcher is a French philosopher and political scientist, graduate of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (French acronym EHESS), research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research,[1] and researcher at the Interdisciplinary Social Studies Research Institute (IRIS) at EHESS. As a specialist in colonial and postcolonial studies, she specializes in the tensions and contradictions that exist between republicanuniversalism, the (post)colonial situation, and the construction of racial identity in the French West Indies. She is studying political sociology and Afro-feminism in France, which will be the topic of her next book.[2][3] From 2021 to 2022, she was a Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University in the United States.
Biography
Silyane Larcher was born and raised in Martinique. Her father, a lawyer and an far-left, anticolonial political activist advocated for the promotion of Martinican Creole language. Larcher's mother, a midwife, became a union representative before serving in elected office, first in Fort-de-France and later at the Regional Council of Martinique. Larcher found herself "attracted" very early by academic philosophy, defending her Thesis
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- ^ "Silyane Larcher - La Vie des idées". www.laviedesidees.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-05.
- ^ "À l'air libre (122) Silyane Larcher: «Vidal vise des travaux, mais aussi des chercheurs»" (in French). Retrieved 2023-01-15.
- ^ Sociales, Service communication de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences. "Silyane Larcher". Allez Savoir | Festival des Sciences Sociales (in French). Retrieved 2023-01-15.