Sociology and Anthropology Unit

Our research and teaching aim to understand contemporary transformations on the basis of the ways in which they are actually produced. How can we understand ecological impasses without grasping the forms of 'nature' and 'progress', or even 'development', inherited from the Moderns? And how can we think of these "natures" in abstraction from colonial oppressive enterprises? What are their current effects of coloniality in terms of the production of race relations (whiteness, blackness, Islamophobia, migration policies, trans and international postcolonial relations, police violence, etc.)? How can we think about the relationship of the latter to forms of labour exploitation and gender domination? How is minority knowledge (mis)treated and practices (mis)treated? What forms of struggle, alternatives and experiences are organised and how do they make us think? What do they propose? What do they negotiate? With which institutions? From which hesitations? What does "decolonial approach" mean?
Our questions are numerous; we deal with them on the basis of analyses of specific situations. We strive to extend our analyses into proposals that social actors are likely to take up.