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Decoding the diaspora of Stuart Hall,

historicity, performativity, and
performance of a concept
Christine Chivallon 
Pages 279-292 | Published online: 27 Mar 2018

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ABSTRACT

This article analyzes the ‘diaspora of Stuart Hall’ using concepts formulated by the
sociologist himself. Through the model of ‘encoding, decoding’, it explores the
meanings of the Caribbean diasporic formations and the theoretical positioning of
Stuart Hall. The rst part adopts a comparative approach on the usages of diaspora
within the French and British academic circles, relying on two exemplary texts to
demonstrate the hegemony of discursive norms prevalent in each of these spheres.
The ‘diaspora of Stuart Hall’ seems to depend on the historicity of codes that witnessed
the shift in the post-modern paradigm. The second part is on the margins from which
Stuart Hall recon gured this shift with an ‘articulation’ of his positioning to academic
normativity. These margins also bring to light his critical theoretical posture vis-à-vis
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postmodernism, as well as the unusual expression of his personal motivation that led
to the adoption of discursive approach of diaspora.

 KEYWORDS: Diaspora the Caribbean Stuart Hall epistemology encoding decoding

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This research was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR ALTER No. 14-
CE31-0014-03] and the UMR ‘Passages’ (CNRS) for translation.

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