Research Activities by LACET
The Laboratoire d'anthropologie comparative, engagée et transnationale (LACET) builds on decades of joint-research and training activities.
International Conferences
Towards a Decolonization of Knowledges in West Africa Pdf, 2 MB. (hybrid), Mali, June 2024;
Beyond Crisis and Insecurity in West Africa, (online) Sweden, June 2021;
Political transition and municipal governance, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, April 2017;
Municipal Democracy, Bamako, Mali, March 2014;
Engaging Anthropology for Development and Social Change, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, January 2010;
Forest management, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, November 1998;
Bonds and Boundaries, Gaoua, Burkina Faso, July 1998;
Regular workshops
Over the last ten years we have had over 20 workshops in Ouagadougou, Bamako, and Uppsala.
Research Programmes
In forest management, sociopolitical opposition, grassroots democracy, popular struggle, security from below, women leadership, citizen perspectives, decolonizing research methodologies, etc.
Commissioned Research
- Citizen Perspectives in Mali 2022-24;
- Burkina Faso seen from below 2018-22;
- Security from below, Mali, 2016-17;
- Burkinabe sociopolitical transformations 2016-17;
- Social Analysis, Mali 2008-09
Academic Assignments
Including joint supervision arrangements, PhD theses defense participation, etc.
Joint Publications
Joint-publication of research results, including those published in the series Uppsala Papers in Africa Studies (intern länk) and Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology, as well as in journals, such as the Mande Studies. List of main works in LACET.