Christiane Rafidinarivo
Christiane Rafidinarivo holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université de la Réunion and a PhD in Political Science from the Université de Toulouse. Her HDR (a post-doctoral French qualification allowing the holder to supervise doctoral theses) thesis focused on local political dynamics and new international relations in the context of financial globalization. Her doctoral thesis was on debt and the international payments system. She is also a graduate of the Institut d'Administration de l'Entreprise and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Toulouse, in the Economics-Finance section. She is a full member of the Madagascan National Academy, Political and Moral Sciences section.
She is Associate Professor of Political Science, International Relations and Geopolitics, and President of the Academic Council of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Madagascar. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre de Recherche Politique de Madagascar. She teaches in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences and is an Associated Researcher at the Laboratoire de recherche sur les espaces Créoles et Francophone at the Université de La Réunion. Before becoming an Associated Researcher, she was a visiting researcher at the CEVIPOF under the supervision of Professor Martial Foucault for her research on Overseas France and the Indian Ocean.
Her research and teaching activities in comparative political analysis focus mainly on democratization (political attitudes and behaviours, voting, social movements, etc.) and the role of the state in this process.
Recent publications:
Grégoire Molinatti, Christiane Rafidinarivo, Bernard Idelson (dir.), Démocratisation de la démocratie : Mouvements sociaux, institutionnalisations citoyennes et mobilisations numériques, Saint-Denis, Presses Universitaires Indianocéaniques, 2023
PUBLICATIONS OF CHRISTIANE RAFIDINARIVO
Research Fields
overseas, Democratization, political attitudes and behavior, Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean: rivalries, conflicts and cooperation, voting, social movements, citizen institutionalization
