From: Saeed Ur-Rehman <saeed-AT-uow.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Foucault in Tunis
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:51:37 +1000 (EST)


there are some references to Foucault's stay in Tunisia in _The Passion of
Michel Foucault_ by James Miller. There is a complete chaptor on student
riots in Paris in this book but almost nothing on student riots in
Tunisia. perhaps Tunisian students are not as radical as French students
to deserve a chaptor or two. (Eurocentrism of radicality perhaps).

saeed urrehman
australian national university


> Hey !
> 
> Does anybody know anything about Foucault in Tunisia where he had lectured
> just before 68 ?  And does anybody know anything about students riots in
> Tunisia in 68 ? I don't intend to connect both : I am in fact interested in
> French scholars in Tunisia after Independance and the influence of
> Foucault's lectures and student riots on them, especially considering the
> fact a lot of them
> were teaching law (while the political elites from Tunisia like Bourguiba
> had often also studied law in French Universities. I am in fact asking the
> question
> of post-colonial domination through the relationship between French
> academics and their Tunisian students).
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 
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