Laurent Fourchard
Affiliated researcher
Violence and security, governance of metropolises, vigilantism, history and political sociology of Nigeria and South Africa, history and historiography of contemporary Africa, History of Nigerian migration to Italy
Laurent Fourchard, historian and political scientist, is a research professor at the National Foundation for Political Science (CERI).
Last Publications
- Fourchard, Laurent. 2021. "Historicités en dispute. Généalogies et usages au prisme des études africaines." Politique africaine 2021/1-2 (161-162): 119-137.
- Fourchard, Laurent and Nora Bardelli. 2021. "Bureaucracy and the politics of identification in Nigeria. Issuing certificates of indigene and investigating citizens' ancestral origins." In Identification and Citizenship in Africa. Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self, ed. Séverine Awenengo Dalberto and Richard Banegas, 185-202. London: Routledge. Routledge Contemporary Africa.
- Fourchard, Laurent. 2021. Classify, Exclude, Police: Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria. IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series. Wiley.
- Fourchard, Laurent. 2020. "Review of Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa", by Nicholas Rush Smith. Politique africaine 2020/3:196-198.
- Fourchard, Laurent. 2019. "Vigilantismus, kollektive Gewalt und urbaner Wandel in sozial benachteiligten Bezirken von Kapstadt (Südafrika) und Ibadan (Nigeria)." In Politische Gewalt im urbanen Raum, ed. Fabien Jobard and Daniel Schönpflug, 119-142. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
