French National Centre for Scientific Research

Department Member, Institut interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain IIAC

Other Affiliations: EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) - Paris, Centre d'études africaines
French National Centre for Scientific Research, LMTG

Thesis Title: Le pouvoir aux marges. Les FulaaBe et l'Etat mauritanien (2008), EHESS Paris, University of Milan Bicocca

About

I obtaind my PhD in Anthropology at the EHESS, Paris and at the Univeristy of Milan Bicocca in 2008. Since 2011, I am a researcher at the Institut interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (LAIOS/CNRS-EHESS, Paris). I have previusoly taught Anthropology and carried out research in several European universities (University of Naples l'Orientale, CNRS-Toulouse, University of Teramo, University of Milan-Bicocca). I've done fieldworks especially in Mauritania and in other Sahel countries (Mali, Senegal, Benin) within marginalized groups, especially Fulani with pastoral and nomadic origins. My research interests focus on the relationship between the state and its margins, and the interlinks between political marginality and ecological, social, and economic vulnerability. I also study issues such as development and mobility. More broadly, I carry on a reflection on marginality and modernity and on the "glocal" dimension of contemporary societies' crisis both from an empirical and an epistemological point of view. Theoretically, this brings me to think to Gramsci's notions of hegemony and subalternity in the contemporary worlds.