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The significance of the first Jesuit mission in Iroquoisie transcends its short history (May 1656 – April 1658). Indeed, the two-year experience reveals less a successful practice of evangelization of America's demons than the limits and powerlessness of French diplomacy and its colonial politics in America in the 1640-1650s. Imposed on New France authorities by Iroquois forces at the cost of the abandon by the French of their aboriginal allies (mainly the Hurons), the Onondaga mission must be understood as the imperial turn of the colonial politics of the French Crown in the 1660s. It shows a double danger for the royal authority : the influence of the French colonial Church and the power of the Iroquois Confederation. The French colonial empire in America will rise against both perils.
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This article is a story narrating the evolution of my own reflections during my Ph.D.: “Planning at the Borders of European Peripheries: The Serbia/Croatia Borderland and the EU Cooperation and Reconciliation Injunctions” (Ph.D. thesis, Tours, Université François-Rabelais, 2016). Using auto-ethnographic methods, this article demonstrates a conviction, the necessity to engage with a reflexive and critical approach, before, during, and after the production of research. I show first how I built the thesis' epistemological approach, by progressively deconstructing classical theoretical frameworks (nationalist, post-socialist, post-Yugoslav). I expose and discuss then the outcomes of such a reflexivity, in particular how I gradually became conscious of the coloniality of (my) knowledge. These mental gymnastics allowed me to occasionally overcome – but regularly report on – the limits of my research, but also to recognize the unsurpassibility of certain aspects of my work connected to the situation in which I stated and conducted it. Reflecting on epistemological reflexivity contributes to clarifying scientific (in)validity of research, and better situates researcher's arguments, their position and positionality.
Keywords: Réflexivité, pensée décoloniale, épistémologie, nationalismes méthodologiques, post-socialisme, post-yougoslave, Reflexivity, decolonial option, epistemology, methodological nationalisms, post-socialism, post-Yugoslav