## Section I: Chapter 6  
Françoise VERGES is a political scientist. She worked as a journalist and editor in Paris, before obtaining a doctorate in political science at Berkeley. In 1996, she began teaching at the University of Sussex, and since 2000 she has been a member of the political sciences department at the Center for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She examines issues of colonial slavery and the phenomena of creolization, using political theories that emphasize post-colonial logics.