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Two doctoral students and an Inalco alumnus win Louis Dumont Fund (FMSH) awards
Since 1988, the fonds Louis Dumont has offered temporary assistance specifically devoted to field survey projects in social anthropology giving priority to the collection of descriptive material aimed at opening up a monographic perspective.
Discover Inalco's prizewinners
Margherita Rasulo is a doctoral student in the Languages and Cultures of North Africa and Diasporas (Lacnad, Inalco) laboratory, under international cotutelle with the University of Naples L'Orientale. A lecturer at Aix-Marseille Université since 2021, she is a member of the RT Gendermed - Penser le genre en Méditerranée and of the Center for African Mediterranean Studies Graduate Committee at the University of Arizona. Her work has been published on L'Année du Maghreb, L'Année sociologique and Studi Africanistici, among others. Quaderni di Studi berberi e libico - berberi.
Socio-anthropology of discrete action: invisibility and women's (infra)political commitments in Kabylia (Algeria)
His thesis project, under the supervision of Dahbia Abrous, examines women's involvement in identity reconstruction in Kabylia, analyzing how their participation in the political sphere challenges gender norms and "traditional" values. The project explores forms of adaptation and renegotiation of social and identity roles in a context dominated by gendered institutions. Find out more.
HAN Zixuan is a doctoral student in anthropology at the French Institute for Research on East Asia (IFRAE, Inalco-Université Paris Cité-CNRS) , under the co-direction of Catherine Capdeville-Zeng (Inalco) and Sophie Goedefroit (Université Paris Cité). After a master's degree devoted to the study of homosexuality, the gendered division of labor and the tourism industry in Na society in southwest China, he is now focusing on the dynamics of kinship and homosexuality in Chinese urban contexts.
Chugui (coming out) in China. Experiences and consequences for homosexual people in the context of family and parenthood
His thesis examines the notion of "coming out of the closet" (出柜, chugui) in China, studying how it is reinterpreted and put into practice by homosexual people to reconcile social and family expectations with their quest for personal expression and sexual freedom. This work highlights individuals' strategies for navigating between sometimes contradictory value systems, blending influences from Western individualism and Chinese family traditions centered on the filial role of the individual. Find out more.
David Low is currently a contract PhD student at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, attached to the Langues et Civilisations à Tradition orale laboratory (LACITO, CNRS-Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Inalco) where he is preparing a thesis in linguistic anthropology on the Hakkas of Mauritius under the supervision of Madame Cécile Leguy. Following a course in language didactics at Inalco, specializing in Chinese language and civilization, he is devoting his dissertation to the ethno-sociolinguistics of the Chinese of Mauritius (2022).
The Hakkas of Mauritius. Language practices and diasporic trajectories
This research project focuses on one of the communities of the Republic of Mauritius, defined as such in the constitution, that of the "Sino-Mauritians", the vast majority of whom are of Hakka origin. Using an ethnographic and sociolinguistic approach, it aims not only to study the current situation of the Hakkas of Mauritius, but also to contribute to reflection on the relationship between the local and the global, based on a particular but significant post-colonial context. From an anthropological point of view, the aim is to contribute to the study of Chinese diasporas - in particular Hakka diasporas - from the Mauritian case, which has so far received little scholarly attention, but resonates with research carried out since the 1990s in other contexts and is part of what can be defined as an "anthropology of diasporas". Find out more.