Gabriel FACAL
Deputy Director from 2022
Gabriel FACAL is an anthropologist, currently deputy director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC, Bangkok), and associate researcher at the Southeast Asia Center (CASE, Paris). In the Indonesian Banten province, his dissertation work (2012) focused on the triadic relationship that develops between martial initiation groups, political networks, and Islamic groups. Over the course of several postdoctoral contracts, he has expanded his research to study different types of collective mobilizations, from small societies captured by development projects to identity-based organizations serving politically involved bosses. In 2020, he co-founded the Observatory of Political Alternatives in Southeast Asia (ALTERSEA), which aims to be a platform for cross-sectoral knowledge building on social movements in the region. At IRASEC, he leads an individual research project on social change and agroecology in West Java, and coordinates a program entitled Cross-Sectoralization of Development in Southeast Asia (CROSSDEV-SEA), which brings together a dozen partners in France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand.
Selected bibliography
Personal research book
- 2018 : La foi et la force. L’art martial silat de Banten en Indonésie, Paris, Indes Savantes, 226 p. (version indonésienne, 2016 : Keyakinan dan Kekuatan. Seni Bela Diri Silat Banten (« La foi et la force. L’art martial silat de Banten en Indonésie »), Jakarta, Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, 315 p.).
Book editing
- 2023 : à paraître en janvier, co-direction avec Astrid Norén-Nilsson et Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux, The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norm Dynamics in Southeast Asia – Overlapping Registers and Shifting Practices, 35 contributeurs, contrat signé en décembre 2021 avec Palgrave Macmillan, 565 p.
Articles in internationally refereed journals
- 2022 : “Biopolitics of invulnerability. The regionalist martial arts groups in Southeast Asia”, Indonesia and the Malay World (Q2).
- 2021a : « Initiatives morales et déviations pratiques en Indonésie – Un médiateur politique entre intermédiation et accumulation », Journal des anthropologues, vol. 166-167, pp. 77-97.
- 2021b : « Grandeur, décadence et legs d’une « femme forte ». Au cœur d’une oligarchie familiale en Indonésie », Terrain [Portrait] (Q2).
- 2020 : « Dialogues et questionnements sur l’éthique en anthropologie. Une charte éthique en débat. Lecture critique de l’ouvrage : Plemmons, Dena et Barker, Alex W. (dir.), Anthropological Ethics in Context. An Ongoing Dialogue, Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press, 2016, 249 p. », Lectures Anthropologiques. Revue de comptes rendus critiques, vol. 7 (texte intégral : https://www.lecturesanthropologique...).
Book chapter
- 2020 : « La diffusion du salafisme en Asie du Sud-Est - Réceptions locales d’une pensée globalisante », in Claire Thi Liên Tran et Christine Cabasset (dir.), L’Asie du Sud-Est 2020. Bilan, enjeux et perspectives, Bangkok-Paris, IRASEC-Indes Savantes, pp. 75-94.
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