Beyond the “North-South”: New territorialities between Africa and Asia

International Workshop
Beyond the “North-South”:
New territorialities between Africa and Asia
December 2nd-3th, 2015
Wednesday, December 2th, 2015
17 :00 - 19 :00
Presentation and kick-off of program PSL
“Understanding the relations between
Africa and Asia : Creating a
interdisciplinary space of research and
education” (CRAA-ETRE)
Venue: EHESS-Bld. Le France, 190 Avenue
de France 75013 Paris, Salle Jean-Pierre
Vernant (8th floor).
Thursday, December 3th, 2015
10 :00 - 17 :00
International Workshop
Venue: EHESS-Bld. Le France, 190 Avenue
de France 75013 Paris, Salle 638-340 (6th
floor)
PANEL 1 : Africa -Asia relations. Beyond the
North-South: new methodological and
epistemological perspectives
PANEL 2 : Geopolitical reconfiguration and
new power relations. States, International
organizations and territorial challenges.
PANEL 3 : Mobility, networks and cultural
hybridisation
17 :30 - 19 :30
Roundtable : Culture of Peace and
Non-Violence: an Asian-African
perspective
With the support of the Permanent
Delegations of Japan and Mali to UNESCO
The workshop will be in English and in French.
Registration : [email protected]
Information and program : http://ffj.ehess.fr//workshop_asia_africa.html
International Workshop
Beyond the “North-South”: New territorialities between Africa and Asia
Kick-off meeting of the program PSL : Comprendre les relations Afrique-Asie : espace transversal de recherches et
d'enseignement (CRAA-ETRE) (2015-2017)
In collaboration with the research program PR6 of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS : New territorialities
between Asia and Africa (NTAA) (2014-2016)
December 2nd-3th, 2015, Paris
190 Avenue de France, 75013, Paris, France
Over the last two decades, relations between Africa and Asia have been increasing, starting with the
significant increase of trade between the two regions and the investments of Asian countries across the
African continent. Economic relations play an important role. But there are many other factors to these
new African-Asian relations. Social, political and cultural interactions continue to increase between the
two continents, the trend being encouraged by globalization.
The purpose of this workshop is to study the new socio-political, economic and cultural exchanges that
extend across the two continents, based on geopolitical, macro or micro- economic, sociological or
ethnographic approaches. To analyze these new relationships across a wide perspective, the question of
the historical relations between the two continents should also be argued: for example, the relations
during the pre-colonial period, colonial times and during the Cold War...
That leads to a reassessment of the new methods and frameworks on social sciences that face these
phenomena which transform these two territories (Africa and Asia), with or without passing through
countries of the global north. How do these new Africa-Asia relations change the paradigms of social
sciences?
How could we review, deconstruct or reconstruct today the epistemological and
methodological approaches developed through centuries of legacy of African and Asian studies in Europe,
established in the colonial and postcolonial contexts?
This reflection allows us to open different perspectives, shifting our view from the “center” (Europe,
America…) to the “peripheries” (Asia, Africa…) and, through this approach, trying to go beyond the
division and opposition between center and periphery, North and South.
Scientific committee of the NTAA program
Jean-Pierre Dozon (FMSH, IMAF)
Mamoudou Gazibo (University of Montreal)
Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga (IMAF, EHESS)
Eloi Fiquet (EHESS)
Frédéric Joulian (EHESS)
Itaru Ohta (Kyoto University)
Thierry Pairault (CNRS)
Organisation committee
Sébastien Lechevalier (résponsable de la géstion) (EHESS-FFJ)
Kae Amo (research coordinator) (FFJ/IMAF, EHESS)
Lala Dadci (FFJ, EHESS)
Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Konaré (Paris Descartes University)
Yumiko Yamamoto (FFJ, EHESS; Sciences Po)
For further information, please contact Kae Amo: [email protected]
Program
Wednesday, December 2th, 2015
Venue: EHESS-Bld. Le France, 190 Avenue de France 75013 Paris, Salle Jean-Pierre Vernant (8th
floor).
17 :00 – 18 :30
Presentation and kick-off of program PSL “Understanding the relations
between Africa and Asia : Creating a interdisciplinary space of research and
education” (CRAA-ETRE)
Introduction : Henri Berestycki (EHESS, CAMS) Dean of Research PSL
Presentation of the Program CRAA-ETRE : Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga (EHESS,
IMAF), scientific coordinator of the program; Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS-FFJ),
president of the France-Japan Foundation of the EHESS; Kae Amo (EHESS-FFJ,
IMAF), research coordinator.
Members (within PSL): Giorgio Blundo (EHESS), Caroline Bodolec (CNRS,
CECMC), Lisa Chauvet (Paris Dauphine University), Ken Daimaru (EHESS, FFJ), Eloi
Ficquet, (EHESS, CEIFR), Bernard-Rene Guillochon (Paris Dauphine University),
Frédéric Joulian (EHESS), Catherine Laffineur (Paris Dauphine University), Kennedy
Loraine (EHESS, CEIAS), El Mouhoub Mouhoud (Paris Dauphine University), Thierry
Pairault (CNRS), Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS ENS), Yann Philippe Tastevin
(CNRS), Yumiko Yamamoto (EHESS, FFJ)
18 :30 – 20 :00
Reception
Thursday, Decembre 3, 2015, EHESS-Bld. Le France, Salle 638 (6th floor) 190 Avenue de France
75013 Paris
Venue : EHESS-Bld. Le France, 190 Avenue de France, 75013, Paris, France, Conference Rooms CNRS,
638-640.
9 :30-10 :00
Registration
10:00 – 10 :15
Introduction and welcome: Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS, FFJ)
Opening remarks: Jean-Pierre Dozon (FMSH)
10 : 15 – 12 :00
Panel 1: Africa -Asia relations. Beyond the North-South: new methodological
and epistemological perspectives
Eloi Fiquet (EHESS): "Tearing the map and holding the helm. From the celestial
view of continents, to the ground level experience of travel and trade as structuring
flows".
Takezawa Soichiro (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) “10th century Chinese
porcelain excavated in Gao, West Africa”
Oussouby Sacko (Kyoto Seika University, Japan) :“Socio-Anthropological
Approach on Community and Family Transitions in Malian and Japanese Society
trough Space Use Observation”
Philippe M.F. Peycam (Leiden University, International Institute for Asian Studies,
Netherlands) : "Preliminary Thoughts on the September 2015 Conference AfricaAsia – A New Axis of Knowledge"
Chair: Jean-Pierre Dozon (FMSH)
Discussant: Kae Amo (EHESS, FFJ, IMAF)
12 :00 – 13 :00
Lunch
13 : 00 – 14 :45
Panel 2: Geopolitical reconfiguration and new power relations. States,
International organizations and territorial challenges.
Antoine Kernen (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) “Is the "emerging
Africa" discurse imported from Asia?”
Mayuka Tanabe (Leiden University, Netherlands) “Local effects of JapaneseMoroccan cooperation in the fishing industry on the Atlantic coast”
Folashadé Soulé-Kohndou (London School of Economics – LSE, UK),
"Passive agents? Bureaucratic Agency in Africa-China negotiations: a case
study of Benin"
Pooja Jain (Science Po) “Investigating the dynamics of South-South
Partnerships: India’s foray in Africa”
Chair: Thierry Pairault (CNRS)
Discussant: Yumiko Yamamoto (EHESS, FFJ)
14 :45 – 15 :15
Coffee break
15 : 15 –17 : 00
Panel 3: Mobility, networks and cultural hybridisation.
Frédérique Louveau (Gaston Berger University, Senegal) "The conversion of
African followers of a new Japanese religion in West Africa"
Alessandro Jedlowski, (University of Liège, Belgium) "Between soft power and
strategic opportunism: Collaborations between the Indian and the Nigerian film
industries"
Takao Shimizu (Research Institute for Humanity and Naature - RIHN, Japan) "Why
his knee was broken? : Exposing the discrimination against an African resident in
Japan"
Caroline Bodolec (CNRS, CECMC) "Be a Heritage Model for Developing
Countries? A People Republic of China's Ambition "
Chair : Loraine Kennedy (CNRS, CEIAS)
Commentator : Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Konaré (Paris Descartes University)
17 :00 – 17 :30
Coffee Break, greeting of external guests.
17 : 30 – 19:00
Roundtable: Culture of Peace and Non-Violence: an Asian-African perspective.
With the support of the Permanent Delegations of Japan and Mali to UNESCO
Panelists:
Satoshi Nara (Minister, Permanent Delegation of Japan to UNESCO)
Oumar Keita (Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Mali to UNESCO),
Kadidia Gazibo (University of Tahoua, Niger),
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki (Chief Executive Officer of the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development - NEPAD)
Dominique Saatenang (African Kung-fu Master and Ambassador of the Shaolin
Temple, China)
Moderator: Oumarou Barry (Press Specialist, Former Editor-in-Chief and Presenter
of two Pan-African TV Shows)
19:00 – 19:10
Closing remarks : Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS, FFJ)
19 : 10 – 20 :30
Reception
Colloque international
Au-delà du « Nord-Sud »: Nouvelles territorialités entre l'Afrique et l'Asie
Lancement du programme PSL : Comprendre les relations Afrique-Asie : espace transversal de recherches et
d'enseignement (CRAA-ETRE) (2015-2017)
En collaboration avec le programme de recherche PR6 de la Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS : Nouvelles
territorialités entre l'Afrique et l'Asie (NTAA) (2014-2016)
Les 2-3 décembre 2015, Paris
Au cours des vingt dernières années, jamais les relations entre l’Afrique et l’Asie n’ont été aussi intenses
qu’aujourd’hui, à commencer par l’accroissement significatif des échanges commerciaux entre les deux
régions, et les investissements massifs des pays asiatiques dans les diverses contrées du continent africain.
Les rapports économiques jouent donc un rôle primordial. Mais il ne s’agit pas uniquement de cela. Les
interactions sociales, politiques et culturelles ne cessent de s’intensifier entre les deux continents. Une
tendance qui est favorisée par le phénomène de la mondialisation.
L’objectif de la journée est d’étudier les nouvelles mouvances sociopolitiques, économiques et culturelles
qui traversent les deux continents, en s'appuyant sur des travaux géopolitiques, macro ou microéconomiques, sociologiques ou encore ethnographiques. Afin d’analyser ces nouveaux rapports à travers
une largeur perspective, la question des relations historiques entre deux continents seront également
traitée : par exemple, les relations durant la période précoloniale, l’époque coloniale ou durant la guerre
froide…
Il s’agit également de réfléchir sur les nouvelles méthodes et théories de recherches en sciences sociales
face à ces phénomènes qui traversent les deux territoires en passant ou non par les pays du « Nord ».
Comment les nouveaux rapports Afrique-Asie modifient le paradigme des recherches en sciences
sociales? Comment pourrions-nous déconstruire ou reconstruire les approches épistémologiques ou
méthodologiques établies à travers les siècles d’héritage de recherches en sciences sociales sur l’Afrique
et sur l’Asie, fondé essentiellement dans les contextes colonial et postcolonial ?
Cet approche nous permet d’ouvrir les différentes perspectives, en déplacent nos regards du « centre »
(Europe, Amérique…) vers les « périphéries » (Afrique, Asie…) et, à travers ce déplacement du regard,
essayer d’aller au-delà de ces découpages et oppositions entre centre et périphérie, Nord et Sud.
Comité scientifique du programme NTAA
- Jean-Pierre Dozon (FMSH, IMAF)
- Mamoudou Gazibo (Université de Montréal)
- Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga (EHESS)
- Eloi Fiquet (EHESS)
- Frédéric Joulian (EHESS)
- Itaru Ohta (Kyoto University)
- Thierry Pairault (CNRS)
Equipe d’organisation
- Sébastien Lechevalier (résponsable de la géstion) (EHESS-FFJ)
- Kae Amo (coordinatrice) (EHESS-FFJ -IMAF)
- Lala Dadci (EHESS- FFJ)
- Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Konaré (Paris Decartes)
- Yumiko Yamamoto (EHESS- FFJ, Sciences Po)
Pour plus d’information : [email protected]
Programme
Le mercredi 2 décembre 2015
Lieu : l’EHESS, 190 Avenue de France 75013 Paris, Salle Jean-Pierre Vernant (8ème étage)
17 :00 – 19 :00
Présentation et lancement du programme PSL : Comprendre les relations AfriqueAsie : espace transversal de recherches et d'enseignement (CRAA-ETRE)
Introduction : Introduction : Henri Berestycki (EHESS, CAMS) Doyen de la recherche
de PSL
Présentation du programme CRAA-ETRE : Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga (EHESS,
IMAF), responsable scientifique du programme ; Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS, FFJ),
Président de la Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS ; Kae Amo (EHESS, FFJ, IMAF),
coordinatrice.
Membres du programme PSL : Giorgio Blundo (EHESS), Caroline Bodolec (CNRS,
CECMC), Lisa Chauvet (Paris Dauphine University), Ken Daimaru (EHESS, FFJ), Eloi
Ficquet, (EHESS, CEIFR), Bernard-Rene Guillochon (Paris Dauphine University), Frédéric
Joulian (EHESS), Catherine Laffineur (Paris Dauphine University), Kennedy Loraine (EHESS,
CEIAS), El Mouhoub Mouhoud (Paris Dauphine University), Thierry Pairault (CNRS),
Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS ENS), Yann Philippe Tastevin (CNRS), Yumiko
Yamamoto (EHESS, FFJ)
19 :00 – 20 :00
Cocktail
Le jeudi 3 décembre 2015
Lieu : l’EHESS, 190 Avenue de France 75013 Paris, avenue de France, 75013, Salles CNRS, 638-640.
190.
9 :30-10 :00
Accueil.
10:00 – 10 :15
Mots de bienvenue : Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS, FFJ).
Introduction : Jean-Pierre Dozon (FMSH)
10 : 15 – 12 :00
Panel 1 : Les relations Afrique-Asie au-delà du Nord-Sud : nouvelles perspectives
méthodologiques et épistémologiques.
Eloi Fiquet (EHESS) : "Tearing the map and holding the helm. From the celestial view of
continents, to the ground level experience of travel and trade as structuring flows".
Takezawa Soichiro (National Museum ou Ethnology, Japon) : « Les porcelaines chinoises
du 10ème siècle découvertes à Gao en Afrique de l'Ouest »
Oussouby Sacko (Kyoto Seika University, Japon) « Approche socio-anthropologique sur
la transition de la communauté et de la famille dans les sociétés malienne et Japonaise à
Travers l'utilisation de l'espace »
Philippe M.F. Peycam (Université de Leiden, International Institute for Asian Studies,
Pays-Bas) "Preliminary Thoughts on the September 2015 Conference Africa-Asia – A New
Axis of Knowledge"
Chair : Jean-Pierre Dozon (FMSH)
Discutant : Kae Amo (EHESS, FFJ, IMAF)
12 :00 – 13 :00
Pause-déjeuner
13 : 00 – 14 :45
Panel 2 : Reconfiguration géopolitique et nouveaux rapports de pouvoir. États,
organismes transnationaux et enjeux régionaux.
Antoine Kernen (Université de Lausanne, Suisse) « Le discours sur l'émergence en
Afrique est-il un produit d'importation asiatique ? »
Mayuka Tanabe (Université de Leiden, Pays-Bas) « Les effets locaux de la coopération
japonaise au Maroc dans le domain de pêche atlantique ».
Folashadé Soulé-Kohndou (London School of Economics – LSE, Angleterre),
"Passive agents? Bureaucratic Agency in Africa-China negotiations: a case study of
Benin"
Pooja Jain (Science Po) “Investigating the dynamics of South-South Partnerships:
India’s foray in Africa”
Chair : Thierry Pairault (CNRS)
Discutant : Yumiko Yamamoto (EHESS, FFJ)
14 :45 – 15 :15
Pause-Café
15 : 15 –17 : 00
Panel 3 : La mobilité, les réseaux et l’hybridation culturelle.
Frédérique Louveau (Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal) "La conversion
d'adeptes africains à une nouvelle religion japonaise en Afrique de l'Ouest"
Alessandro Jedlowski, (Universite de Liège, Belgique) " Entre puissance douce et
opportunisme stratégique: Les collaborations entre les industries cinématographiques
indienne et nigériane"
Takao Shimizu (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japon) "Why his knee was
broken? : Exposing the discrimination against an African resident in Japan"
Caroline Bodolec (CNRS, CECMC) . "Be a Heritage Model for Developing Countries?
A People Republic of China's Ambition"
Chair : Loraine Kennedy (CNRS, CEIAS)
Discutant: Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Konaré (Université Paris Descartes)
17 :00 – 17 :30
Pause-Café, Accueil des invités externes.
17 : 30 – 19:00
Table ronde : Culture de la paix et de la non-violence. réflexions Afrique- Asie.
Avec la participation des Délégations Permanentes du Japon et du Mali et du Japon auprès
de l’UNESCO
Intervenants :
Satoshi Nara (Ministre, Délégué permanent du Japon auprès de l'UNESCO)
Oumar Keita (Ambassadeur, délégué permanent du Mali auprès de l'UNESCO),
Kadidia Gazibo (Universsité de Thoua, Niger)
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki (Secrétaire Exécutif du NEPAD – Nouveau Partenariat pour le
Développement de l’Afrique)
Dominique Saatenang, (Maître de Kung-fu and Ambassadeur du Temple Shaolin,
Chine).
Modérateur : Oumarou Barry (Expert médias, Ancien Journaliste et Rédacteur en chef de
deux émissions de télévision panafricaines
19:00 – 19:10
Mots de clôture : Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS, FFJ)
19 : 10 – 20 :30
Cocktail
Speakers’ profiles
(In order of appearance)
Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS - FFJ)
Sébastien Lechevalier is Associate Professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS,
Paris) since 2005, where he teaches about the Japanese Economy. He is also President of Fondation
France Japon de l’EHESS. He has been a researcher at Maison Franco-Japonaise (2005-2008, Tokyo).
He has also been visiting researcher at Hitotsubashi University and The University of Tokyo. His research
focuses on the Japanese economy; diversity of capitalism; heterogeneity of firms; industrial dynamics,
and inequalities. His publications include: The Great Transformation of the Japanese Capitalism (Routledge,
2014, forthcoming in 2015 in Japanese, from Iwanami Shoten), “Globalization and labor market
outcomes. De-industrialization, job security, and wage inequalities” Review of World Economics
(forthcoming).
Jean-Pierre Dozon (FMSH)
Jean-Pierre Dozon is scientific director at the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH). He
is Emeritus Research director at the Research Institute for Development (IRD), member of the Institute
des Mondes Africains (IMAF). His works focus mainly on West Africa, on development, health, the
ethnic problems, on the relationship between politics and religion, on Franco-African relations, etc. His
publications include : L’Afrique à Dieu et à Diable. Etats, ethnies et religions, Paris, Éditions Ellipses, 2008,
Une anthropologie en mouvement. L’Afrique miroir du contemporain, Paris, Éditions Quæ, 2008, Frères et Sujets. La
France et l'Afrique en perspective, Paris, Éd. Flammarion, 2003.
Éloi Ficquet (EHESS)
Éloi Ficquet, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the EHESS, Paris, and research fellow of the CéSor (Centre
for Social Research on Religions). As an anthropologist and historian, he studies religion, ethnicity and
power in Ethiopia through different kinds of material (ethnographic observations, oral traditions,
unpublished manuscripts, published texts, maps). He was the Director of the French Center for
Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa from 2009 to 2012. Besides many articles on Ethiopian history and
culture, he co-authored a French-Amharic Dictionary with Berhanou Abebe (2003), he coedited with
Wolbert Smidt The Life and Times of Lïj Iyasu of Ethiopia (LIT Verlag, Berlin, 2014), and he recently coedited
with Gérard Prunier: Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia (Hurst, London, 2015).
Shoichiro Takezawa (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
Shoichiro Takezawa is professor at National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, since 2001. Doctor of
Ethnology at EHESS (1985), and Associate Professor at Kyushu University since 1988. Specialized in
African history and archaeology. His works focus on west African history especially in relation to the
outer world. His publications include: “Discovery of the Earliest Royal Palace in Gao and Its
Implications for the History of West Africa”, Cahiers d’études africaines, 2012 (with Mamadou Cisse); "La
fête japonaise: appareil hégémonique de la cité marchande” Techniques &Culture; 2012; Sur la trace des
grands Empires: recherches archéologiques au Mali, Etudes Maliennes Numero special (in printing).
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Oussouby SACKO (Kyoto Seika University, Japan)
Oussouby SACKO is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Professor at the Department of Liberal
Arts, Kyoto Seika University, Japan. He is also affiliate to the Graduate School of Humanities and to
the Graduate School of Design (Architecture). Born in Mali (Bamako), he went to China (Beijing and
Nanjing) after graduating High School to pursue his education in the field of Architecture. He got a
Bachelor Degree from South East University, Nanjing China. He moved to Japan afterward and got a
Master Degree and a Doctor Degree of Engineering in the field of Architecture and Architecture
Planning from the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan. He has been conducted
field researches and worked on housing planning, policy and design in Mali and Japan. Recently, his
main interest is on community architecture, community re-design and architecture conservation,
restoration in historical cites. He has recently conducted field researches in Mali, Mauritania’s historical
cities.
Philippe M.F. Peycam (International Institute for Asian Studies, Netherlands)
Philippe Peycam is the director of the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherland.
He is a trained historian whose first book on the origins of a Vietnamese public culture of contestation
during the colonial occupation, The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism: Saigon 1916-30, was published by
Columbia University Press (May, 2012). For 10 years, Dr. Peycam worked as founding director of the
Center for Khmer Studies, an academic and capacity building institution in Cambodia. He is currently
working on an essay that sets out to frame a reproducible policy model aimed at civil society
empowerment through cultural and intellectual institutional infrastructures in post-war societies. At IIAS,
Dr. Peycam is coordinating a long term Mellon Foundation-supported initiative “Rethinking Asian
Studies in the Global Context” which aims at suggesting alternative models to the normative
epistemologies of knowledge of Asia in Western and Asian academia.
Kae Amo (EHESS – FFJ, IMAF)
Kae AMO is research coordinator at Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS (FFJ - EHESS). She is
coordinator of the research program PSL Comprendre les relations Afrique-Asie : espace transversal de
recherches et d'enseignement (CRAA-ETRE, 2015-2017), and research program PR6 at FFJ "New
territoriality between Asia and Africa ( NTAA ) ". She is PhD candidate in anthropology at EHESS and
affiliated to Institute des Mondes Africaines (IMAF). Master in Anthropology ( EHESS ), sociology
( UCAD, Senegal ) and Political Science ( Keio University , Japan), she realized numerous studies on
Islam in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in ANR projects Publislam (2009-2012) and Priverel (20132016), in research program "Islam and Global Governance " (2007-2009, Keio University, Japan).
Antoine Kernen (University of Lausanne)
Antoine Kernen has a PhD in Political Science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He worked
at the Institute of International Studies and Development in Geneva and currently at the Faculty of
Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lausanne.
Adopting a perspective of political sociology, his work on the Chinese transition, analyze various aspects
of the privatization process (emergence of the private sector, transformation of the social system, labor
protests, the emergence of a third sector). His publications include: China towards a market economy,
privatization in Shenyang (Paris Karthala 2004) and (with F.-X. Merrien, R. Parchet) The welfare state:
An International Perspective (Paris, Armand Colin, 2005) In parallel for several years, he leads and
conducts researches on Chinese presence in Africa. After early work on small Chinese traders in Africa
«Small and Medium-sized Chinese Businesses in Mali and Senegal », African and Asian Studies (9 2010) ,
he currently focus his interest on the impact of Chinese products in Africa and the role of China in a
possible return of a developmental state in Africa. He recently published (with Katy Lam) « Workforce
Localization among Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Ghana », Journal of Contemporary China,
(23:90), « The Revolution of Chinese Goods in Africa: Mass Consumption and New Material Culture »
(with Guive Khan Mohammed) or “Africa facing the Chinese economic power », in a special issue
of Politique Africaine he coordinate "China Ltd: A business African" (No. 134/2014).
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Mayuka Tanabe (Leiden Universitym Netherlands)
Mayuka Tanabe is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University, specialising in anthropology of work.
She received her master’s degrees at the University of Cambridge (M.Phil. Social Anthropology) and the
University of Oxford (M.Litt. Chinese Studies). From 2009 to 2013 she was resident in Morocco where
she taught Academic Study Skills at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, and the Lebanese International
University in Casablanca. She has been an affiliated researcher at the Moroccan Centre for Social
Sciences, Université Hassan II – Casablanca since 2011. She obtained her doctorate in Middle Eastern
Studies at Leiden University in 2015. Her research focused on the work practice of Ayt Khebbash
(Amazigh) fossil artisans in southeastern Morocco. Her current project deals with the socio-cultural
impact of Japanese-Moroccan cooperation in the fishing industry.
Folashadé Soulé-Kohndou (London School of Economics – LSE, Angleterre)
Folashadé Soulé holds a PhD in Intenational Relations from Sciences Po Paris and is currently a PostDoctoral researcher at the International Relations department of the London School of Economics
(LSE). Her post-doctoral research project investigates the bureaucratic politics of negotiation in asymetric
relations between small African states and the BRICS (infrastructure and energy projects). She has been
an Adjunct professor inPolitical science and International Relations at Sciences Po Paris, University of
Lille 2, University of Paris Nord, INALCO and the Catholic Institute of Paris. Her publications include:
Puissances émergentes et multilatéralisme : le cas de l’Afrique du Sud (1999-2008) , aux éditions
L’Harmattan, « Collection Etudes africaines »,and « L’Afrique du Sud dans la relation BRICS-Afrique :
ambitions et paradoxes », in Afrique contemporaine (vol. 4, n° 248) in 2014.
Pooja Jain (Science Po)
Pooja Jain wrote her PhD (2010-2014) on ‘Development Partnerships: A Case Study on India and
Senegal’ at Sciences Po Paris under the supervision of Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot. She has been a visiting
academic at the University of Cambridge in 2015. She has taught World Politics at the CollègeUniversitaire of Sciences Po and is co-founder of the recently created Centre for Research on AfricaIndia Partnerships. Pooja has an eclectic academic background with a double Masters in French and
Francophone Literature (JNU) and Socio-Economics (IEP Grenoble). Her past and previous research
interests include alternative financing for development, the role of private sector in development and
the geo-politics of the Global South.
Thierry Pairault (CNRS, )
Thierry Pairault is Research Director at the CNRS and at the Centre for the Study of Modern and
Contemporary China at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). He is specialized
on the study of the economies of China and Taiwan. His research focuses on diverse topics, as
establishment of a labor law, reform of the accounting system, community self-financing, financial
exclusion, entrepreneurship, etc. His current research focuses on collective management of individual
interests.
Yumiko Yamamoto (EHESS - FFJ)
Yumiko Yamamoto is a Post-doctoral Researcher at Center for International Research (CERI) of
Sciences Po Paris and a Research Associate at Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS. Her research interests
include Asia-Africa Relations, Comparative Asian Aid Policies (Japan, India, China) and Japan’s Foreign
Policy. Between 2008 and 2012, she conducted a comparative study on Development Aid of Japan,
China and India in West Africa in her doctorate. Before joining to CERI as Doctoral Researcher in 2008,
she worked for 3 years as Counselor at Japanese Embassy in Senegal, in charge of research on Japan’s
ODA to Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. She holds Ph.D in International relations from
Sciences Po Paris (2012). She is the author of Politique d’aide au développement de la Chine, de l’Inde et du Japon
en Afrique de l’Ouest (Paris : Les Indes savants, forthcoming).
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Frédérique Louveau (University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal)
PHD in anthropology (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales), researcher-teacher at the Center
of religious studies at the University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis (Senegal) and member of LPED
( AMU-IRD). She leads researches in contemporary religious movements in West Africa with an
approach of political anthropology and an interest in religious globalization and religious minorities (in
particular japanese religions implanted in Africa). She is interessed in the interrelation between religion
and environnement in Africa. She wrote for example a book in 2012 titled Un prophétisme japonais en
Afrique de l’Ouest. Anthropologie religieuse de Sukyo Mahikari (Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Sénégal, France)
edited by Karthala (with a preface from Georges Balandier and a postface from Jean-Pierre Dozon), in
2014 she wrote an article « The Environmentalism of a Japanese Religious Movement in Senegal. From
Healing to Environmental Management through Sukyo Mahikari », EHESS Editions in the review
Cahiers d’Etudes africaines, 2011/4, n°204 : 739-768, in 2014 an article titled « De l’islam au shinto :
l’initiation de musulmans à un mouvement religieux japonais en Afrique de l’Ouest (Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire,
Sénégal) », in Cahiers du HCM : Histoire, Monde et Cultures religieuses, n°28, numéro spécial « D’une
croyance à l’autre, le cas de l’islam » edited by Pr. O. Saaidia : 79-95. In 2015, she wrote the chapter «
Quand l’Afrique prie les dieux du Japon. L’adhésion d’adeptes ivoiriens à un mouvement religieux
japonais (Sukyo Mahikari) », in the book edited by Pr. I. P. L. Lalèyê (dir.), Religion et culture dans
l’Afrique actuelle at the CODESRIA Editions : 207-229, and the same year, she wrote a chapter titled «
Le nouveau modèle de développement des adeptes africains d’une religion japonaise (Bénin, Côted’Ivoire, Sénégal) », in the book edited by D. Malaquais et N. Khouri, Afrique-Asie : Réseaux, échanges,
transversalités, Rouen, PURH (foorthcoming in 2015).
Alessandro Jedlowski (University of Liege, Belgium)
Alessandro Jedlowski is a Belgian Scientific Research Fund (F.R.S./FNRS) post-doctoral fellow at the
University of Liege (Belgium). His current research analyses the political and economic dimensions of
film production in the southern Nigerian video film industry (Nollywood) and compares them with those
of other similar industries emerging around the African continent, particularly in Ethiopia and Côte
d’Ivoire. He published several essays on this topic in international journals and edited collections, and he
is the co-editor (together with Philip Harrison and Ute Röschenthaler) of a forthcoming special issue of
the Journal of African Cultural Studies on China-Africa media interactions.
Takao Shimizu (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japon)
Takao Shimizu is project researcher at Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, since 2012.
Master of Letter at Nagoya University (2008). Specialized anthropology, child studies and Africa area
studies. He used to work on Japanese international NGOs.
His main works focus on culture and survival strategy of children and young generation on the street in
West African urban area. In these years, he is working with NGOs and Quranic schools for study of
street-children.
Caroline Bodolec(CNRS)
Caroline BODOLEC is senior researcher with the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS)
at the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (UMR 8173 Chine, Corée, Japon). Her
field of research focus on the intangible cultural heritage and on the appropriation of the Intangible
cultural heritage convention of UNESCO (2003) in China. She conducts fieldwork studies over northern
part of the country, especially in Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces. She also works on the history of
construction and the anthropology of techniques during Late imperial and contemporary China. She
published several articles in those topics and a book entitled La voûte dans l'architecture chinoise : un patrimoine
méconnu (Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005). She is co-author of a documentary made with Elodie Brosseau
entitled Yaodong, little treaty of construction, 89 ', EHESS & AnimaViva production that won the Intangible
Cultural Heritage Award at the 31st Festival of Ethnographic Film Jean Rouch in 2012 and the second
prize at the Festival du Film de chercheurs, Nancy, 2014. She was associated with the ANR Research
Program " Chinese Cultural Spaces in Africa " conducted by Alexandra Galitzine with whom she
conducted her first fieldworks in Cameroun.
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Loraine Kennedy (CNRS)
Loraine Kennedy is a Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS, posted at the Centre for South Asian Studies
(CEIAS) at the EHESS in Paris. Her current research, on the political economy of scale in India’s federal
democracy, investigates the deployment in urban space of economic development strategies conceived
at various state scales and analyses their implications within the wider context of urban politics. Recent
publications include a research monograph: The Politics of Economic Restructuring in India. Economic
Governance and State Spatial Rescaling (Routledge, 2014) and a special issue of Habitat International
(2015) on ‘The politics and changing paradigm of megaproject development in metropolitan cities’.
Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Ba-Konaré (Paris Decartes)
Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Ba-Konaré is a trained clinical psychologist focusing on human emotional
experiences. He earned his PhD on "The functions of religious investment : study of a Malian Muslim
Population" at Université Paris Descartes (France).
His areas of expertise include religiosity, intercultural psychology, and the sense of identity of the Fula
people. Having lived in Japan in the past, he is currently working on a study comparing Fula and
Japanese ideas and experiences on shame. He also works as a consultant and activist, on human right
issues in nomadic communities, and peace in the Sahel. His approach is strictly cross-disciplinary,
interlinking a personalised, clinical vision to problem-solving, with various fields, such as anthropology,
and political science.
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