Françoise Vergès

FranÃ§oise VergÃ¨s is Consulting Professor at Goldsmiths College, London. Her last book: <em>Lâ€™Homme prÃ©dateur. Ce que nous enseigne lâ€™esclavage sur notre temps</em>, Albin Michel, April 2011.

Xenophobia and the Civilizing Mission

Europe’s civilizing mission is humanitarian - its duty to intervene to spread the good word, protecting the oppressed against local tyrants. The conditions by which this protection is granted are always dictated by the protector and never the protégé. Though this is not said, it is a given.

By Françoise Vergès

/ 13 May 2011