Cette rubrique donne un aperçu des publications récentes des chercheurs du LESC. Des listes plus exhaustives peuvent êtres trouvées sur les pages individuelles des membres.

 

What makes an offer impossible to refuse? Combining original ethnography with compelling storytelling, this book traces the social life of extortion across Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Italy, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. The research is grounded in collaborative and comparative ethnography conducted by a team of anthropologists, bringing together fieldwork from across the world to reveal how extortive logics shape different domains of life, following the circulation of threats and the distribution of intimidation across society. The result is a gripping read about the ordinariness of extortion beyond conventional organised crime and mafia spheres. The chapters document how the strength of extortion lies in the gradual and complicit inclusion of individuals and populations within relationships that are simultaneously attractive and violent – capturing the overlapping dimensions of compulsion and choice that define so many of today's livelihoods. In doing so, this book illustrates the dynamics of coercion, force and consent, and offers a fresh perspective on economic violence that moves away from exclusive legalistic definitions of extortion.

A teleoperated robot roaming in the streets of Mumbai enables anyone to put oneself in the place of the Hindu god Ganesha and have a conversation. Initially conceived as an anthropological experiment, the machine was launched in 2014 and became a collective, political and metaphysical experience. Can a machine make a good divine interface? Likewise, what might be the virtues of hacking a god to understand our relation to machines? The Ganesh Yourself experiment is not only a fascinating exercise in anthropology by design, the first of this kind, but it also leads to a radical deconstruction of religion, politics and technology, opening unthinkable possibilities.

Peut-on prêter sa voix, en changer, la perdre ? Que font les timbres, débits, souffles et dynamiques de la voix sur nos identités et nos interactions ? Dans ce numéro, anthropologues, linguistes, poètes, artistes et spécialistes du son y explorent les usages rituels, artistiques et quotidiens de la vocalité. Comment les voix incarnent, trompent, convoquent les esprits, rejouent le passé, déplacent les identités, franchissent des cascades ou défient les intelligences artificielles ?

À l’heure où les voix de synthèse deviennent nos interlocutrices du quotidien, saisir ces mécanismes dans toute la diversité culturelle de leurs réalisations est plus que jamais indispensable.

 

Ce numéro de la revue Terrain a été préparé en collaboration avec l’École Estienne : 12 étudiant·es du DSAA Design Illustration Sciences et Médiation y ont contribué. 

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