Dr Ferdinand De Jong
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer |
F dot Jong at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2459 |
Sainsbury Centre 0.17 |
Biography
Academic Background
Ph.D in Social Science, University of Amsterdam (2001)
Key Research Interests
• Heritage, art and postcolonial memory
• Masquerading, performance and intangible heritage
• Museums, materiality, time and temporality
• Art, aesthetics and performance
• Archive and Utopia
Current Research Projects
• For several years I have researched how art, performance and memory intersect in museums, memorials and heritage. I have addressed questions related to performance and intangible heritage.
• Researching heritage in Senegal, I have found it to be framed by pan-African ideology. My most recent research papers address the complex legacy of pan-Africanism in the current context of Afro-pessimism.
• I am interested in the aesthetic tactics that postcolonial subjects employ to make instant and lasting impressions in a context where impression management matters. How do tactile tactics feed into the making of aesthetic formations that provide some sense (in a literal, metaphorical and material sense) to the postcolony?
• As a result of my interests in contemporary art and memory, I am increasingly drawn to the ways in which artists work in the archive. As a metaphor for systems for the storage of documents and traces of the past, I have started to explore the archive in relation to the memory of a Sufi saint.
Research Grants
• The Aesthetics of Modernity and Postcolonial Citizenship in Senegal. The Royal Academy, award reference: SG102029.
• The Staged Nation: Heritage and Memory in Postcolonial Senegal. Arts and Humanities Research Council, award reference: AH/F013116/1.
• The Public Past: Memory and Heritage in Postcolonial Senegal. Economic and Social Research Council, award reference: RES-000-22-0735.
• History, Heritage and Memory: Politics of the Past in Senegal. The British Academy, award reference: SG-36720.
Teaching Interests
Teaching interests
Anthropology
Material culture
Public art
Cityscapes
Art, aesthetics and performance
The archive
Research supervision
Interested in supervising research students in all areas of traditional and contemporary African art; public art and memory; heritage and material culture; cities and their imagination.
Examples of modules taught
African Art and Performance
Public Art, Performance and Memory
Cultural Heritage
Visualising Others
Article
De Jong, Ferdinand and Foucher, Vincent (2010) La tragédie du roi Abdoulaye? Néomodernisme et Renaissance africaine dans le Sénégal contemporain. Politique africaine, 118. pp. 187-204.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2010) Remembering the Nation: The Mourid Maggal in Saint Louis, Senegal. Cahiers d'études africaines, 197. pp. 123-151.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2009) First Word: Hybrid Heritage. African Arts, 42(4). pp. 4-5.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2009) Shining Lights: Self-fashioning in the Lantern Festival of Saint Louis, Senegal. African Arts, 42(4). pp. 38-53.
De Jong, Ferdinand and Probst, Peter (2009) African Arts: special issue on Art and Heritage. African Arts, 42 (4).
de Jong, Ferdinand (2008) Recycling Recognition: The Monument as Objet Trouvé of the Postcolony. Journal of Material Culture, 13 (2). pp. 195-214.
de Jong, Ferdinand and Michael Rowlands, (2008) Postconflict Heritage. Journal of Material Culture, 13 (2). pp. 131-134.
De Jong, Ferdinand and Rowlands, Michael (2008) Journal of Material Culture: special issue on Postconflict Heritage. Journal of Material Culture, 13 (2).
de Jong, Ferdinand (2005) A Joking Nation: Conflict Resolution in Senegal. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 39 (2). pp. 389-413.
De Jong, Ferdinand and Gasser, Geneviève (2005) Canadian Journal of African Studies: Contested Casamance/Discordante Casamance, special issue on the civil war in the Casamance region of Senegal. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 39 (2).
de Jong, Ferdinand (2005) Contested Casamance: Introduction. Candian Journal of African Studies, 39(2).
de Jong, Ferdinand (2003) Towards an Anthropology of Modernity. Studia Africana, 14. pp. 45-46.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2002) Politicians of the Sacred Grove: Citizenship and ethnicity in southern Senegal. Africa, 72 (2). pp. 203-21.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2002) The Jola Museum: An appropriation of museum practice. Journal of Museum Ethnographers, 14 (2). 0-00.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2001) Il Museo Diola. Identitià locali, oggetti sacri e turismo nella Casamance. Etnosistemi, 8. pp. 91-101.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2001) Démasqué. Etnofoor, 14 (2). pp. 7-22.
De Jong, Ferdinand (2000) Secrecy and the State: The Kankurang Masquerade in Senegal. Mande Studies, 2. pp. 153-173.
De Jong, Ferdinand (1999) Trajextories of a Mask Performance: The Case of the Senegalese Kumpo. Cahiers d’Études africaines , 153. pp. 49-71.
De Jong, Ferdinand (1998) The Production of Translocality: Initiation in the Sacred Grove in Southern Senegal. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology. Special Issue on Globalization/Localization: Paradoxes of Cultural Identity, 30-31. pp. 61-83. ISSN 0920-1297
Mark, Peter, De Jong, Ferdinand and Chupin, Clémence (1998) Ritual and Masking Traditions in Jola Men's Initiation. African Arts, 31 (1). 36-47-94-95.
De Jong, Ferdinand (1997) The Power of a Mask: A Contextual Analysis of the Senegalese Kumpo Mask performance. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology. Special Issue on Visual Art, Myth, and Power. pp. 37-56. ISSN 0920-1297
Book Section
Rowlands, Michael and De Jong, Ferdinand (2007) Reconsidering Heritage and Memory. In: Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek CA, pp. 13-29.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2007) A Masterpiece of Masquerading: Contradictions of Conservation in Intangible Heritage. In: Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Inaginaries of Memory in West Africa. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 161-84. ISBN 9781598743074
De Jong, Ferdinand (2005) The Jola Museum: Poetics of Autochthony in Senegal. In: From Modern Myths to Global Encounters: Belongings and the dynamics of change in postcolonial Africa. CNWS Publications, Leiden, pp. 118-126.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2004) The Social Life of Secrets. In: Situating Globality: African Agency in the Appropiation of Global Culture. Lieden: Brill Publishers, pp. 257-276. ISBN 90 04 13133 7
De Jong, Ferdinand (2000) The Forbidden Masquerade: Ethnicity and the Management of Ritual in Senegal. In: Roots and Rituals: The Construction of Ethnic Identities. Het Spinhuis, Amsterdam, pp. 499-516.
De Jong, Ferdinand (1999) The Production of Translocality: Initiation in the Sacred Grove in Southern Senegal. In: Modernity on a Shoestring: Dimensions of Globalization, Consumption and Development in Africa and Beyond. EIDOS in association with the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Centre of African Studies London, Leiden and London, pp. 315-340.
De Jong, Ferdinand (1998) De Verbeelding van Volkscultuur: Maskers, Maskerades en hun Representatie in Musea en Folklore. In: Yearbook Netherlands Open Air Museum. SUN/Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, Nijmegen/Arnhem, pp. 84-109.
De Jong, Ferdinand (1995) The Making of a Jola Identity: Jola Inventing their Past and Future. In: Popular Culture: Beyond Historial Legacy and Political Innocence (Proceedings of CERES/CNWS Summer School 1994). CERES, Utrecht, pp. 133-150.
Book
De Jong, Ferdinand (2007) Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Indiana University Press, USA and Canada.
de Jong, Ferdinand (2007) Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal (International African Library). Edinburgh University Press, p. 228. ISBN 9780748633197
de Jong, Ferdinand (2007) Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa. Left Coast Press. ISBN 978-1-598743074
