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Les Afriques dans le monde

Les Afriques dans le monde

French research unit for the Africas

Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM) is a French academic research institute in Pessac, France focusing on Africa and its diaspora.

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French Africanist Céline Thiriot was head of Les Afriques dans le monde in 2012-2017, photo 2015.

It is a collaboration[1] of the national research organisation CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and three local universities: the Political science institute of the University of Bordeaux, the Bordeaux Montaigne University) and the University of Pau and the Adour Region. LAM was founded in 2011 by merging the Centre d’étude d’Afrique noire (CEAN, University of Bordeaux) and the Centre d’étude et de recherche sur les pays de l’Afrique orientale (CREPAO, University of Pau and the Adour Region) with other researchers joining.

The research field of LAM is the "Africas": Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and by extension the African diaspora in the Middle East and transatlantic regions, mainly the Caribbean.[2] In 2022 LAM had 26 researchers, fifty-odd PhD students and some 100 associated researchers. Since 2021 it is headed by David Ambrosetti.[2]

Research

Five research themes are addressed by LAM[2] :

  1. State, regulations and contestations in the Africas
  2. Spaces, (im)mobilities, diasporas
  3. Imagination, arts, subjectivities
  4. Markets and entrepreneurship in Africa
  5. Health risks, agrarian crises and environmental challenges

Collaborations

LAM is a member of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS), a European academic research network for African studies, of which LAM's precursor institute the Centre d’étude d’Afrique noire (CEAN, Bordeaux) was among the founders.

Within France LAM participates in the multidisciplinary research group Études africaines en France (African studies in France) of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).[3]

LAM organised annual meetings of Africanists in France, such the 3e Journées du Réseau des études africaines (REAf) at Bordeaux in 2014,[4] the 6th European Conferences on African Studies (ECAS 2015)[5] in Paris and the 7e Rencontres des Études Africaines en France (7e REAf and 6e JCEA) at Toulouse in 2022 (JCEA : Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheur·e·s en Études Africaines).[6]

Journals of LAM

LAM supports the academic journals Afrilex, Cahiers d’Outre-Mer, Études littéraires africaines, Politique africaine in collaboration with the Paris Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) and Revue Sources.

References

  1. [1]
    LAM is a French "mixed research unit" (Unité mixte de recherche, UMR).
  2. [2]
    "Projet scientifique". lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr (in French). 28 March 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023. Depuis sa création en 2011, l'unité de recherche Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM) a pour objectif de constituer un centre multidisciplinaire et comparatiste d'analyse du politique dans les Afriques et les espaces transocéaniques dessinés par les sociétés issues de la traite. (translation: Since its creation in 2011, the research unit Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM) aims to be a centre for the multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of politics in the Africas and the transoceanic regions that emerged from the slave trade.)
  3. [3]
    "Études africaines en France. Groupement d'intérêt scientifique (GIS)". etudes-africaines.cnrs.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  4. [4]
    "3e Rencontres des Études Africaines en France". reaf2014.sciencesconf.org (in French). 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  5. [5]
    "ECAS 2015 6th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN STUDIES Paris, 8-10 July 2015. Collective mobilisations in Africa: contestation, resistance, revolt". aegis-eu.org. AEGIS. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  6. [6]
    "7e REAf et 6e JCEA Rencontres des Études Africaines en France". reaf2022.sciencesconf.org (in French). 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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