« Cities and circulations: Challenging theoretical frameworks in Gulf histories and Geographies»

Conference organized by Kuwait University, INALCO, NCCL, Sciences Po, the French Embassy in Kuwait and CEFREPA. As an extension of the Workshop organized on November 19 in Kuwait City, it deepens the scientific collaboration between the two countries in SHS.

The conference revisited historical processes of knowledge production, immigration, and cultural exchange in colonial and post-colonial geographies of the Gulf. It also uncovered histories of community, migration, language/dialect, and hinterland denials in both the making of Gulf cities and the production of their histories. The aim was to foster novel investigations that question the positionality of different actors, that humanize the landscape, and that deconstruct persistent myths, material and immaterial structures, spaces and systems that limit a critical reading on the Gulf.