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Meet Gilles Bataillon, sociologist and specialist in contemporary Latin America (CESPRA, EHESS)
The collection "Portraits of Researchers in Area Studies" (PEA) is a series of large-format interviews produced by Inalco as part of the Language and Cultural Area Studies (LaCAS) project. Deposited on the MediHal open archive, this series of portraits joins a set of collections on the LaCAS platform. These collections aim to build a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research on the world's languages, societies and cultures.
Large-format portrait
Video: A political sociology of Central America. An interview with Gilles Bataillon (EHESS)
An interview conducted by Bastien Sepúlveda, in charge of Digital Humanities (DIRVED, Inalco), directed by Dimitri Galitzine, produced by Inalco (12/09/2024, 71 mn).
Podcast:
Gilles Bataillon is Director of Studies at EHESS and a member of the Centre des savoirs sur le politique (CESPRA, UMR 8036). In this interview, he looks back on his fieldwork experiences in Central America, and more specifically in Nicaragua, where he took an interest in the Sandinista revolution; issues he places in the perspective of Americanist research and developments in sociology.
Gilles Bataillon spent part of his childhood in Mexico. A sociologist specializing in Latin America for the past forty years, his research focuses mainly on forms of politics in Latin America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, armed action and violence, and the democratic experience.
He has conducted numerous investigations in Central America, the Andean countries, Nicaragua, Mexico and Costa Rica, and has notably studied the civil war of the Nicaraguan Moskitia (1981-1989).
He was co-director of the journal Problèmes d'Amérique latine from 2010 to 2017 and has written numerous articles on the subject and several books including:
- Geneses of Internal Wars in Central America (1960-1983) (Les Belles Lettres, 2003), translated into Spanish by the Fondo de Cultura Economica in Mexico City (2008).
- Enquête sur une guérilla (Nicaragua 1982-2007), (Le Félin in 2009), also translated into Spanish.