Recent publications

We would like to draw your attention to the publication of an article by Soazig Dollet titled “Entre contrôle de l’image de soi et fermeture. Retour sur la grammaire des attitudes adoptées par des personnes réfugiées dans le cadre d’entretiens biographiques” in the journal Bulletin of Sociological Methodology in January 2024. Abstract From self-image control to closing off: a study of the grammar of refugees’ attitudes during biographical interviews. This article examines the interviewer-interviewee relationship in qualitative research with beneficiaries of international protection schemes. It examines how the use of biographical interviews produced forms of docility and resistance on the […]

We would like to draw your attention to the publication of an article by Laurent Fourchard titled “In the Shadow of the State: the Making of Garage Laws in Lagos” in the journal Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology in December 2023. Abstract The National Union of Road Transport workers (NURTW) is the main transport organization in Nigeria and has replaced local governments in most garages of the country. The NURTW exercises its authority in Lagos garages through its own set of rules, qualified here as garage laws. They aim at providing revenues for the union, for state institutions, for police […]

The article written by Marcela Alonso Ferreira and titled The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights: (Non)Programmatic Distribution in São Paulo’s Land Regularization Policy was published in December 2023 in the journal Latin American Politics & Society. Abstract: How do bureaucrats implement public policy when faced with political intermediation? This article examines this issue in the distribution of land rights to informal settlements in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. Land regularization is a policy established over three decades, where politicians’ requests for land titles to their constituencies play a relevant role. Based on interviews and documents, this study finds […]

The working paper titled «An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa» par Pierre-Philippe Combes, Clément Gorin, Shohei Nakamura, Mark Roberts & Benjamin Stewart was published by the World Bank in November 2023. Abstract: This paper provides a detailed descriptive analysis of patterns of urbanization across Sub-Saharan Africa for the year circa 2015. Despite the rapidity and importance of Sub-Saharan Africa’s urbanization, little is known about the anatomy of patterns of urbanization across the region due to a lack of detailed and accurate official data on urban settlements and populations. To address this gap, the paper applies a modified version of […]

The article written by Fatoumata Diallo and titled “Challenging “best practice”: appropriation strategies for the Bus Rapid Transit in Lagos, was published in October 2023 in the journal Espaces et sociétés. Abstract A select number of public policies generate strong interest on the international stage because of the success attributed to them. They are labeled best practices, a description that endows them with legitimacy in the eyes of decision-makers in other countries. In this article, we examine Bus Rapid Transit (brt) policies initially implemented in several South American cities to remedy deficiencies in the provision of public transport, and subsequently […]