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Jérôme Melançon

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Professor
Ph.D (Université Paris Diderot); MA (University of Ottawa); BA Honours (University of Ottawa)
Adjunct Faculty, (La Cité universitaire francophone)

Contact Info

Office: 306-585-5243
CT 220.9
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Research Interests

  • Political Philosophy
  • Phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Tran Duc Thao, Frantz Fanon)
  • Settler colonialism, the Indian Residential School System, and Reconciliation
  • Literature, Language, and Translation
  • Canadian Francophone Politics and Society
  • Democracy, Political Engagement, and Action

Representative Publications

  • La politique dans l’adversité. Merleau-Ponty aux marges de la philosophie, Métispresses, Geneva, 2018.
  • Emily Grafton, Jérôme Melançon, Ibukun Fasunhan and Alyssa Parker, ed. Canadian Settler Colonialism: Relating the Past, Opening New Paths. University of Regina Pressbooks, October 2024. https://opentextbooks.uregina.ca/canadiansettlercolonialism/
  • Emily Grafton and Jérôme Melançon, ed. Being Together. A Living Land Acknowledgement for oskana kâ-asastêki / Regina. University of Regina Pressbooks, August 2024. https://opentextbooks.uregina.ca/livinglandacknowledgement/
  • “Colonisation, racialisation, recolonisation : Sur quelques dynamiques autour des communautés francophones des Prairies,” Cahiers franco-canadiens de l’Ouest, vol. 35, no. 1&2 (2023), p. 162-196.
  • “La position contradictoire des communautés francophones en situation minoritaire dans l’ordre colonial canadien,” Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, special issue: “La portée de la Commission de vérité et de réconciliation dans les contextes francophones canadiens,” vol. 20, no. 1 (2023), p. 126-146.
  • “Contradictory Colonial Locations: An Outline for a Theory through Marxism and Phenomenology,” in Bryan Smyth and Richard Westerman, eds., Marxism and Phenomenology. The Dialectical Horizons of Critique, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, 237-258.
  • “Toward a New Balance and Interdependence: Merleau-Ponty on Colonialism and Underdevelopment,” in Jérôme Melançon, dir., Transforming Politics with Merleau-Ponty. Thinking beyond the State, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, 165-184.
  • “Philosophy as a Mediating Institution and the Problem of Tradition in Canada,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 51, 3 (2021), p. 426-442.
  • “La production et l’intentionnalité. De l’origine et de la genèse matérielles de la conscience selon Tran Duc Thao,” Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 117, 3, 2019, p. 547-565.
  • “Liberty, Equality, Laicity: Québec’s Charter of Values and the Reframing of Politics,” Canadian Political Science Review, vol. 9, no. 3 (2015). Open access: http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/cpsr/article/view/613
  • “La philosophie et les transformations de l’identité francophone au Québec. Fernand Dumont et les possibilités du nationalisme,” The International Journal of Canadian Studies, 50 (2014), p. 65-86.
  • “Thinking Corporeally, Socially, and Politically: Critical Phenomenology after Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu,” Bulletin d’analyse phénoménologique, vol. 10, no. 8 (2014). Open access: http://popups.ulg.ac.be/1782-2041/index.php?id=732
  • “Jan Patočka’s Sacrifice: Philosophy as Dissent,” Continental Philosophy Review 46, 4 (2013), p. 577-602.
  • “Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Politics: A Humanism in Extension,” Philosophy and Social Criticism vol. 36, n. 5 (June 2010), p. 623-634.
  • Poetry collections with Éditions Prise de parole and Éditions des Plaines; poetry chapbooks with above/ground press.