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DISASTERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS – CADHOM
This project contributes to improve the research in the South by associating researchers of the South on the issue of human rights always in situation of conflict and resistances faced with the universalism of these rights depending on international conventions. This project is a comparative legal
Energy trajectories in the metro-regions of the South – TERMOS
Energy resources play a fundamental role in economic development and poverty reduction. In most Southern countries, the challenge rests on the capacity to providing a reliable supply with respect to necessities – especially at the industrial level – while ensuring access to modern energy services fo
Scattered Public Action. Production and Institutionnalisation of Public Action in Water and Land tenure Sectors (Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger) – APPI
In West Africa, in contexts where States are weak and dependent on international aid, the possibility of elaborating autonomous and efficient sector-based policies is at question. Reforms implemented in main public services have been encouraged by international institutions and are based on liberal
Anthropology of Law in the African and Asian Muslim Worlds – ANDROMAQUE
The study of law and legal institutions has been largely neglected, in the Muslim world, except precisely what refers to Islam. This applies on all levels: legal training, development of the law, law personnel, law professions, the police and legal management of criminality, legal decision-making, a
The French Overseas Departments Between Proximity and Distance : Construction and Politicization of Boundaries – PRODISDOM
The late 2000s were marked in the French Overseas Departments by large-scale social movements expressing real frustrations regarding citizenship. Historically formed in the framework of a colonial relationship and therefore on a profoundly unequal basis, these societies are still places where a mult
SUBaltern URbanisation in INdia – SUBURBIN
The SUBURBIN project (Subaltern Urbanization in India) acknowledges an ongoing process of urban shift from rural to urban population, but questions both its scholarly representation and measurement. It seeks to counter a vision of urbanization as reduced to a process of agglomeration and a competiti
WEST-AFRICAN MIGRATION NARRATIVES – MIPRIMO
West-African Migration Narratives. Narratives accounts, imagined worlds and social dynamics in West-African Migrations. Mobility has deeep historical roots in West African societies and narratives pertaining to intra-continental African mobility show that it is perceived as part of specific cult
Free Zones as a development strategy. The Manaus Free Trade Zone Case. – ZFM
Since 1975, when they were only 76 in 25 countries, the number of « export processing zones » (EPZ) has reached 3500 in 130 countries in 2006. The number of workers in these zones is assumed to have tripled. According to the OECD, free trade zones “constitute a second best…, because they benefit o
Manufacturing Migrations and Knowledge-related : Mobilities, Productive spaces ans Generations – FABRICAMIG.SA
The pluridisciplinary social science research project « Manufacturing Migrations and Knowledge-related : Mobilities, Productive spaces ans Generations » (sociology, geography, demography, socio-psychology and anthropology) analyses the mechanisms of production of migratory knowledge, as they are the
Medically Assisted Reproduction and Infertility in a Globalizing World (Pretoria, Ouagadougou, Paris) – AMP
Medically Assisted Reproduction and Infertility in a Globalizing World (Pretoria, Ouagadougou, Paris) The use of biotechnology in the case of medically assisted procreation is becoming an increasingly globalized practice (its actors are mobile, as are the gametes…). It is inscribed in a context w
Crises — Work, Employment and Income in Societies of the South – CRITERES
The financial crisis in September 2008 has put the issue of employment back in the headlines, reviving debate on the application of governmental employment policies. The 7 researchers involved in the project presented here – anthropologists, sociologists, and an economist, working in the IRD, the CN
The politics of xenophobic exclusion in Africa: mobilisation, local orders and violence – XenAfPol
As the African population continues to grow and move, the continent’s societies have seen increasing social, cultural, linguistic and economic heterogeneity. Cities and metropolitan areas have now reached a crossroads where local authorities have little effective control over the socio-economic proc
Institutional supply and agency rationales: women on welfare in six Latin American metropolis – LATINASSIST
In this project we wish to study the social effects of public welfare policies implemented in Latin America, in six large cities (Buenos Aires, Bogotá, São Paulo, Guadalajara, Havana, Santiago de Chile). These welfare programmes represent a new generation of public policies, in which various instit
Tackling Inequalities in Health and Access to Health Care in African and Middle-Eastern Countries: Challenges of Measurement and Explanation – INEGSANTE
The 2009 landmark report from the WHO Commission on “Social Determinants of Health” has reemphasized the observed inequalities in morbidity and premature mortality to the detriment of socio-economic groups at the lowest level of the social gradient. Previous research, including that carried out by s
The revival of Iberian Imperial States (1808-1930) : an original globalization? – GLOBIBER
Since the World history school emerged in the USA in the 1980s, it has seen strong growth in the Anglo-Saxon world. However, the decentring of perspectives proposed by that school seems to encounter difficulties when dealing with the Iberian Peninsula; according to this view, the loss of the America