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CURRICULUM VITAE
Mathilde Gingembre
Institute of Development Studies
Library Road
Brighton
BN1 9RE
UK
E: [email protected]
W: www.ids.ac.uk
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT:
Doctoral Researcher
LANGUAGES:
French: mother tongue
English: excellent command (oral and written)
Spanish: advanced
Malagasy: deug level
Italian: basic user
Arabic (al-ammiyya): beginner
THEMATIC EXPERTISE:
Land reform and rights, commercial pressure on farmland, politics and power,
environmental governance and social justice, religion and politics
GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE: Madagascar
OVERVIEW
Title PhD Thesis: Anay aby zay? Power, participation and politics in negotiating corporate land access in rural
Madagascar.
My PhD research engages with the issue of large-scale land privatisation in regions characterised by subsistence
agriculture and pastoralism. It focuses on dynamics of power, moral economy and politics in the local negotiations for
corporate land access. It draws on the analysis of the Lalifuel project, an agribusiness biofuel project currently seeking to
access 100,000 ha in an agropastoral area of the south of Madagascar. The research sets to explain the variety of
perspectives that can develop towards corporate land enclosure within peasant populations experiencing different degrees
of vulnerability and contrasted experiences with a consultation process involving both corporate actors and state authorities.
It also documents the different ways local populations invest spaces of negotiations and decision-making, from silence to
active engagement with the official consultation process through the lobbying of decision makers and different forms of overt
and covert resistance. It scrutinises the power mechanisms that inform these engagements and how these intersect with
endogenous understanding of rights and obligations embedded within a specific moral economy. It also explores the
response of state and corporate actors to rights claims, observing how positions towards the land deal shifted with the
engagement of civil society in favour of local land users and the heightened sense of political uncertainty that pervaded
Malagasy politics under Rajoelina’s regime (2009-2014). In the process, the study highlights the different bargaining
endowments that can be found within agrarian populations and the intra-community contestation that land privatisation can
lead to in contexts of inequalities and uncertainty. The purpose of the study is to shed light on key political, power and class
dynamics in processes of land deal negotiations and provide keys to understanding their differentiated outcome on issues of
land rights, social cohesion and social justice.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2011-2012
Masters Degree in Social Research Methods (ESRC Training Package)
University of Sussex, UK
2010
BA in Language and Foreign Civilisation (Madagascar)
Inalco, Paris, France
2008-2009
Masters Degree in African Politics
Sorbonne, Paris, France
2007-2008
Masters Degree in African Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
2003-2007
BA in Political Science, Major in International Relations
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille (IEP), France.
RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT
PRESENT
Reviewer, Journal of Peasant Studies, Canadian Journal of Development Studies,
Journal of Rural Studies
Regular review work for peer-reviewed journals
Jan – Feb 2012
Country Expert, V-Dem, Madagascar
Varieties of Democracy research project, www.v-dem.net
Oct – Dec 2011
Research Assistant, IDS, UK
RA work for IDS based research project on non-violence in Ivory Coast.
Sept – April 2010
Freelance writer, UBIQUS, Paris
Oct – Dec 2009
Research Mission, Peuple Solidaire in association with Action Aid, Paris.
Jun – Aug 2009
Daily Press Review from Madagascar for JUSTMAD
Feb - Aug 2006
Project Manager at NGO BEL AVENIR, Toliara-based NGO, Madagascar.
Sept 05 - Feb 2006
Intern at the French Embassy, Lusaka, Zambia.
Press service
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Sept 2009 - Sept 2011
Sept 04 - July 05
Sept 03 - July 04
General Secretary of the Consortium de Solidarite avec Madagascar
Voluntary Work for Action against Hunger, Paris.
Active Member of What about Africa?
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND OUTPUTS
Peer Review
Gingembre, M. (2015) ‘Resistance or Participation? Fighting against corporate enclosure amid political uncertainty in
Madagascar', Journal of Peasant Studies 42:3-4, Special Issue 'Global land grabbing and political reactions from below'.
Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White and Wendy Wolford (guest eds)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2015.1022867.
Burnod, P., Gingembre, M. and Andrianirina Ratsialonana, R. (2013) ‘Local competition for authority over land and
international land deals in Madagascar’. Development & Change 43:5 190–209.
Gingembre M. (2011) ‘Match religieux en terrain politique. Compétition entre Eglises chrétiennes et chute du régime
Ravalomanana à Madagascar’, in Politique Africaine 120 (La pluralisation religieuse en Afrique).
Others
Ferguson, B., Gardner, C., Andriamarovolonona, M., Healy, T., Muttenzer, F., Smith, S., Hockley, N. and Gingembre, M.
(2014) ‘Governing ancestral land in Madagascar: have policy reforms contributed to social justice?’ In: M. Sowman and R.
Wynberg, eds. Governance for justice and environmental sustainability: lessons across natural resource sectors in SubSaharan Africa, Oxford: Earthscan.
Gingembre, M. (2012) ‘Les Eglises dans la crise de 2009 à Madagascar’, in Randrianja S. (dir), Le coup d'Etat de mars
2009 à Madagascar, Karthala, Paris.
Gingembre M. (2010) ‘Madagascar. Les aspirations confisquées du mouvement 2009 ’, Etat des Résistances dans le Sud,
17, Centre Tricontinental, Louvain-la-neuve.
Gingembre M., Bouhey A., Ratrimoarivony M., Randrianarimanana P. (2010) ‘La résistance à l'accaparement des terres à
Madagascar. Le cas Daewoo ’, in Agricultures familiales et sociétés civiles face aux investissements massifs dans les
terres, Coordination Sud, Commission on Food and Agriculture (C2A), Paris.
Masters Thesis
Gingembre, M. (2008) ‘The Council of Christian Churches in Madagascar under the regime of Marc Ravalomanana (20022009). From oecumenism to public activism: a fragile balance’. MA Dissertation. Srobonne, Paris, DISTINCTION.
Gingembre, M. (2009) ‘Ethnic Federalism and Ethnic Tensions in Ethiopia. A Case Study of Gambella Regional State’ MA
Dissertation, DISTINCTION.
Conference Papers
Gingembre, M. (2015) ‘Deal or no deal? Power, participation and politics in negotiating corporate land access in
Madagascar’, Work in Progress Seminar, Institute of Development Studies, 3 March.
Gingembre, M. (2014) ‘Whose voices and at what costs? Consultation, brokerage and exclusion mechanisms in the context
of large-scale land deals. A case study from Madagascar’, European Association of Social Anthropology conference, Tallinn,
6 August 2014.
Gingembre, M. (2014) ‘Whose voices and at what costs: Land deal, consultations and local disputes’, ‘Future Africa’ VAD
congress 2014, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 13 June 2014.
Gingembre, M. (2013) ‘Resisting foreigners or fighting neighbours? Case study of a large-scale land deal in Madagascar’,
PhD Conference on International Development 2013, University of East Anglia, 19th September 2013.
Gingembre, M. (2013) ‘Resisting Foreigners or Fighting Neighbours? Vying for access in the context of a large-scale land
deal in Madagascar’, paper presented at the European Conference of African Studies (ECAS), Lisbon, 29 June 2013.
Gingembre, M. (2012) ‘Propriété et autorité: dynamiques de construction discursive. Appliquer l’analyse de discours aux
processus d’acquisitions de terre à grande échelle’, Journées Doctorales du Foncier, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme,
Montpellier, France.
Gingembre, M. (2011) ‘Bureaucratie de proximité et défense des droits de propriété. Négociations pour l’acquisition des
terres à grande échelle à Madagascar’, conference paper, Journées Doctorales du Foncier, Maison des Sciences de
l’Homme, Montpellier, France.