The latest LaCAS I-DEA talks: sociology of Algeria, male initiations in Oceania and mobilizations around work in Latin America

26 February 2025
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Pascale Bonnemère et Bastien Sepúlveda en face à face
Pascale Bonnemère et Bastien Sepúlveda © LaCAS 2025‎
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The interviews of the I-DEA program (Illustration and Documentation of Areal Studies) present themes studied by a researcher in areal studies, approached from different angles: problems, fields, methodologies, issues. Every two months, discover the latest interviews, available on HAL and the LaCAS platform.

 

Latest I-DEA interviews

Saïd Belguidoum
Saïd Belguidoum © LaCAS 2025‎
A sociology of Algeria through the prism of the urban question, interview with Saïd Belguidoum (Aix-Marseille Université)

Saïd Belguidoum, senior lecturer emeritus at Aix-Marseille Université, looks back on a research career that has led him, from the rural to the urban, to follow societal evolutions and dynamics through his various fields (Algeria, Maghreb, China, France) and varied objects of study (peasantry, cities, migratory circulations, social mutations). View

Pascale Bonnemère
Pascale Bonnemère © LaCAS 2025‎
Women in male initiations in Papua New Guinea: a field and archival approach

Pascale Bonnemère, anthropologist and director of research at the CNRS, talks about her research among the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea, where she focused on women's roles in male initiations, calling on an ethnographic approach including extensive archival work. View

Isabel Georges
Isabel Georges © LaCAS 2025‎
Work, social policies and forms of mobilization: a multi-scalar and multi-situated approach to conjunctures in Latin America, interview with Isabel Georges (IRD)

Isabel Georges, director of research at IRD, is interested in the relationship between forms of mobilization and social policies in Latin America, and more specifically in forms of commitment (professional, political, religious, etc.) in working-class environments and in relation to women's work. View