Danielle Tan is research associate at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO-ENS Lyon), France, and at the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC, Bangkok). The contributors are Aranya Siriphon, Caroline Grillot, Caroline S. Hau, Oliver Hensengerth, Johanes Herlijanto, Hew Wai Weng, Weiqiang Lin, Chris Lyttleton, Kevin Woods, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and Juan Zhang. (...)

Geographical areas of Interest :
Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Southwestern China
Discipline :
Ritual and ideological discourse anthropological theories of practice ecological anthropology agrarian change.
Publications :
2002 - Tanabe, Shigeharu and Charles F. Keyes (eds) 2002 (May) Cultural Crisis and Social Memory : Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos, London : RoutledgeCurzon. 2002 - ’Wittgenstein and the anthropological imagination’, Ratsatsan (Political Science Journal, (...)

Fields of interest
Historical Anthropology of upland Southeast Asia Economic Anthropology Ethnicity and Nationalism Memory Studies Southeast Asian History Lao Language and Culture
Experience
2009 - 2014 : Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Germany)
2008 - 2009 : Lecturer at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and WWU Münster
2002 - 2007 : PhD in Social Anthropology and Modern History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1996 - 2002 : MA (...)

Early on in her graduate studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Anne-Christine Taylor flirted with the idea of doing fieldwork in Central Asia or Mexico. At Lévi-Strauss’s behest, however, she and her husband Philippe Descola immersed themselves in holistic ethnographic fieldwork among the Jivaroan Achuar of Ecuador—against the grain of the political preferences for urban and peasant studies in French anthropology of the 70s, but greatly to the benefit of (...)

Resident Researcher from 2023 to 2025
olivier.telle irasec.com
Experience
Olivier is a health geographer at Centre National de la Recherche Française (CNRS). His research aims to better understand how environmental and socio-spatial dynamics of cities are connected to infectious and zoonotic diseases rise in South and SouthEast Asia (Singapore, Delhi, Vientiane, Bangkok). By integrating environmental, socio-economic, and governance disparities, the global aim of his research is to reduce (...)

Julien Ténédos is coordinator of the SHS NCP. He is also in charge of communication and valorisation of the RFIEA foundation. He was the project manager of the fundit platform for the funding of mobility and research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Specialities : Humanities and social sciences, funding, mobility, research, administration, Europe, international.
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Dr. Alain Testart is a French Social Anthropologist (PhD), trained as Ingénieur de l’Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris. Former scholar at the Research Unit “Social Appropriation of Nature” (French National Museum of National History and CNRS), and former Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University Paris X-Nanterre, he is Research Director of the CNRS, and a member of the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale (Collège de France). He is known especially for his works on (...)

Phạm Thanh Hai est chercheur rattaché à la Chaire de recherche du Canada en études asiatiques à l’université de Montréal. C’est dans cette université qu’en 2009 il a défendu avec succès sa thèse de doctorat en géographie intitulée Les migrations internes au Viêt Nam et leur impact sur l’environnement. Depuis vingt ans, il est aussi rattaché au Centre de télédétection et géomatiques à l’Institut des sciences géologiques du Viêt Nam. Parmi ses publications, figure (avec J.-Ph. Leblond) « Recent forest expansion in (...)

Dr. Frédéric Thomas is a French Tourism Economist (PhD in Economie Sciences, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France), specialized in the analysis of tourism’s impact and market development strategies. He has eight years of professional experience with international development cooperation issues, including seven years in Southeast Asia. He combines technical expertise in the areas of social and economic evaluation of tourism, development and migration. (...)

Resident Researcher from 2019 to 2021
thianh-dao.tran irasec.com
Fields of interest
Globalisation and development International integration and assymmetries Integration, mobility and South-South trade Comparative studies in East and Southeast Asia
Experience
Thi Anh-Dao TRAN is Research Fellow at the Centre for Re