Christian CULAS
Statutory researcher from 2008 to 2011
Dr. Christian Culas, Anthropologist at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Centre Norbert Elias (UMR 8562), EHESS, Marseille, France.
He is in charge of the Franco-Vietnamese cooperation project for the study of social change and development in Vietnam (2010-2012), collaboration between the Norbert Elias Centre (EHESS-CNRS, Marseille), the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Lao Cai province (Vietnam) and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Développement (IHEID, Geneva, Switzerland), financed by AFD-Department of International Development Studies.
Study Field
Continental Southeast Asia : Vietnam, Thailand, Laos.
Research topics :
Anthropology of development, relationships between societies and the natural resources (Local knowledge, agro-forestry and Conservation Agriculture). Political anthropology, emergence of civil society in Vietnam, relationships between ethnic minorities groups and development projects in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam since 1992.
Recent publications :
- - 2017, Culas Christian, « La société civile dans le Việt Nam post Đổi Mới. Une indépendance limitée par rapport à l’Etat. », in Dominique Barjeot et Jean-François Klein (eds.), De l’Indochine coloniale au Viêt-Nam actuel, Magelan Edition et Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Paris, pp. 687-705.
- - 2016, Hiwasaki Lisa, Culas Christian, Minh T.T., Senaratna Sellamuttu S, Douthwaite B, Elias M, Kawarazuka N, McDougall C, Pannier E. 2016. Guidelines to engage with marginalized ethnic minorities in agricultural research for development in the Greater Mekong. Hanoi, Viet Nam : World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Program.
https://www.worldagroforestry.org/region/sea/publications/detail?pubID=3761 - - 2016 Emmanuel Pannier et Christian Culas, « De la position d’observateur à celle de médiateur : Expérience d’anthropologie appliquée à une situation de développement au Vietnam », Revue de l’APAD, (Anthropologie et développement)(Association euro-africaine pour l’anthropologie du changement social et du développement), Paris. N° Spécial « Engagement en sciences sociales », 44 : 123-148.
- - 2015 Christian Culas, Razafindrakoto Mireille et Roubaud François, “Ownership and Participatory processes : from global motto to local challenges. The case of a key poverty reduction program in ethnic minority areas of Vietnam”, in Local Politics, Global Impacts : Steps to a Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Scales. Olivier Charnoz, Virginie Diaz Pedregal, Alan L. Kolata (eds.), Ashgate Press, Surrey (UK), pp.223-250.
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