CESSMA (UMR 245) – Centre d’Études en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains, Américains et Asiatiques

Les nationalismes se sont toujours déclinés sur le mode civilisationnel en Inde. Mais le Mahatma Gandhi et Jawaharlal Nehru évoquaient la civilisation indienne, quand Narendra Modi et ses lieutenants valorisent aujourd’hui la civilisation hindoue. Cette différence […]

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Depuis une vingtaine d’années, l’étude des narratifs en Relations Internationales et en science politique s’est largement structurée autour de l’analyse de leur contenu : visions du monde, représentations de l’ordre international, […]

Redefining key economic concepts such as “production” and “work” is a major advance of feminist economics. In a financialized economy where poor households are increasingly dependent on credit and savings to make a living, further redefinition is needed: financial work […]

Looking back over a couple of years, this paper considers the tensions affecting land markets in the Cercle of Kati and subdivision operations around Bamako, the capital of Mali. A sample of eight peri-urban sites emphasizes the extent of the conflict, which has destabilized community rights […]

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Abstract Small mammals are regular inhabitants of urban centres worldwide. The house mouse Mus musculus and rats of the genus Rattus , major invasive alien species, are increasingly present, particularly in West Africa where house mice and black rats ( Rattus rattus ) are frequently met in […]

Household debt has expanded dramatically worldwide, yet little is known about how many people rely on borrowing simply to meet basic needs. This paper provides the first global estimate of everyday debt. In the absence of harmonised international data, we adopt an indirect estimation strategy based […]

Résister, y compris à l’impuissance. Ce numéro réunit des œuvres d’artistes gazaouis et des textes de chercheur·es, issus de travaux de terrain. Ceux-ci éclairent la diversité des résistances et des imaginaires de lutte qui […]

Dans cette thèse, qui s’inscrit dans le cadre des recherches sociolinguistiques, nous avons cherché à étudier les dynamiques de la transmission intergénérationnelle du tachelhit, l’une des variétés de la langue amazighe, en nous […]

From the mid-19th century till well into the second quarter of the 20th century, Delhi’s topography underwent a significant metamorphosis, as the ailing Mughal dynasty (1526-1858) finally came to an end and British rule was established over India. Several edifices in the capital Shahjahanabad […]

This chapter focuses on the budget organisation and consumption habits of the working classes. The aim is to highlight and analyse the economic and social logics at work in the balancing of the domestic economy of working-class households. After the Second World War in Japan and France, and from […]