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“CIRCULATING DEAD BODIES”. CONSIDERING POSTSOCIALIST FUNERARY RITUALS AND ECONOMY IN CONTEXTS OF MOBILITY. – REFPoM
This project aims to analyse them according to two main areas of study: a. « Re-territorializing one's dead. Symbolic, ritual and economic imperatives«. The aim is to analyse the symbolic, ritual and economic modalities of the re-territorialisation of the «mobile dead«, which in most cases incl
Monotheistic religions and emacipatory social mouvements: continuities and transformations in the constitution of the critical subject – ReMouS
Reflections on modern emancipation often involve a disavowal of the contribution of religion. The latter is either criticized or portrayed as conservative criticism. This project wants to challenge this conception of the relation between emancipation and religion. Our main thesis is that monotheisti
Popular neighborhoods through the lens of their youths: a participatory research – POP-PART
This participatory and multidisciplinary research project aims to analyze the social and urban reconfigurations underway in the “popular” neighbourhoods from the perspective of their youth. The goal of this study is to understand the experiences of youths, from their territorial anchorages, their in
Linguistic and Intercultural Mediations in a context of International Migrations – LIMINAL
Based on the major hypothesis that there is a language specific to the recent migratory experience, the initial issues of the LIMINAL project concern the interactions and mediations between migrants and institutional, associative and informal actors in situations of migratory and humanitarian crisis
The Integration by Religions of Migrants in Burkina Faso – Relinsert
This project started from questions related to the work of the American anthropologist E.P. Skinner and from several field observations carried out previously by members of the team. In the 1950s, Skinner noted that Moose migrants in Côte d'Ivoire, who were often practicing «traditional« religions w
Postwar agrarian capitalisms. A comparative perspective – PWACCOP
The PWACCOP project aimed to understand the construction and impact of rural land policies in post-conflict situations. It offers an original approach to these contexts, which are rarely analysed from the perspective of political economy and land issues. It focuses on the growing link between peaceb
« What do the Indians want? » Socio-spatial configurations, political issues and ontological debates in Amazonia. – AMAZ
For three decades now, indigenous amazonian societies have been playing an increasingly active role on the political arena. Their organizations become the main actors in hundreds of so-called “environmental” conflicts that shake the region, against companies an State administration. However, their m
Catholic migrants in a plural society : social and religious anchoring – relimig
Aim: To study the Catholic migrants in France coming from extra-European countries, from African Creole, Asian and Latin American societies in the cities of Paris and Lyon. The project focuses on first-generation Catholic migrants. We have chosen to study them in two major French cities, Lyon and P
Intensive religiosities, rigorisms and radicalities – RIGORAL
Our originality is to investigate how religious intensity, rigorism and (in)transigence are articulated, by analyzing life trajectories, modes of socialization as well as religious and non religious discourses. . While refuting particularist and a fortiori pathological interpretation of these phen
Research Project on Orchestras, discriminations and gender – PRODIGE
Measuring discrimination requires the ability to isolate the effect of discriminatory factors (gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, etc.) from the effect of differences in individual skills (education, experience, talent, etc.). These differences may themselves be the result of discriminatory pro
Inequality at work: tackling the local mechanisms of inequality in French firms – ineq_at_work
Widening inequality has become a major source of political, social, and scientific concerns during the last decades. Although patterns and trends in inequality have been extensively documented in many countries, research tends to overfocus on individual determinants and to overlook the local context
EConomics of HOusing and Public Policy Evaluation – ECHOPPE
Housing is a primary good, defined by Johh Rawls as desirable to any citizen, thus a common base for social justice. Public policies are explicitly targeted to the reduction of housing inequality with respect to laissez-faire. An extended set of policies (social housing, taxes and subsidies to renti
Family and inequality – FAMINEQ
Over the last 50 years, industrialized countries have undergone major economic and demographic changes that affected both the distribution of earnings across individuals and the family structure in which these individuals live. Since the 1970s, inequality in the distribution of individual income has