It has become a family chorus: learning institutions in France have supposedly colonized by “Woke -is”, gender studies and intersectionality. This accusation has repeated the leg about several years, agitated by the polemicists, resonated by ministers and also some intellectual circles. He has a defender bone for the book Face à l’Onscurantismo waking up (“Overbody will face”), which will be published on April 30. One of his co-director, Xavier-Laurent Salvador, had already declared in Figaro The newspaper, in 2021, that “decolonialism and identity ideologies represent a quarter of research in today’s humanities.”
The Decolonialism Observatory and identity ideologies was created in 2021 based on these repeated accusations. It is now financed by the extreme right-wing billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, and has become called a University Ethics Observatory.
Two “reports on ideological manifestations in universities and research”, published by the Observatory in 2021 and 2023, compile scientific articles, thesis summaries, press articles and conferences dated to the genre and other “awakened” topics. Despite the accumulation effect, the lack of any quantitative analysis makes it impossible to measure what these works really represent as a general academic proportion or production, much less measure any potential increase.
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