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.

 

The four priority lines of research have been collectively constructed from many different meetings and experiences on field sites that members of the unit have been surveying for years using various combinations of methodologies and disciplines. They are based on research that has been conducted within the laboratory for a long time, but are structured by more recent concerns and problems, having earned a central place within the unit in recent years. Designed to serve as spaces that unite researchers around focused dialogues, the lines of research offer a network of questions and issues that are autonomous but furnished with bridges that researchers—who will contribute to one or several lines—will have time to cross.

These lines were developed based on broad theoretical concerns, and will link two major problems: first, forms of action and experience, involving either people or groups, generally explored in relational spaces suffused with doubts, confrontations and uncertainties; second, time and temporality, whether it be a matter of considering the moment, the contemporary, the actualisation of the past or projection into the future. In other words, it will be a matter of considering multiple regimes of connection between forms of experience and temporalities.

The laboratory’s scientific plan can be viewed here (in french) : projet scientifique (2020-2024).pdf

1. Sensorialities and interactions
2. Discordances in the Contemporary
3. Actualisations of pasts
4. Fields of the possible

Collectively developed, the four research areas that structure the Lesc’s scientific project (2025-2030), are based on heterogeneous field experiences and research, conducted using a range of approaches. The challenge is to renew the comparative endeavor, as much in terms of disciplinary (sub)fields as in terms of methods and cultural areas.

The laboratory aims to be a space for experimentation with the epistemologies of field inquiry and forms of writing, as well as with modes of circulating knowledge. One of the unique features of work carried out in each of the four areas is to reflect on the phenomena of hybridization that result from the encounter between anthropology and other professional spheres, through collaborative apparatuses and devices, based on dialogue between sciences, arts, engineering, and information technology; and more broadly, from the encounter between anthropology and its publics. These ambitions are underpinned by a long-standing concern at the Lesc for archives. Archives are not only “field sites” and “sources,” “mediums” and “tools” for mediating knowledge; they are also crucibles of political issues concerning heritage preservation and restitution. They are at the heart of reflection on document conservation, work on the “data” of research, and the digital humanities.

These cross-cutting issues surrounding new modes of investigation, analysis, writing, and archiving are accompanied by strategies for restitution, co-construction, and knowledge sharing. The Lesc is thus committed to promoting the critical role of anthropological thought in addressing transformations in the world.

The laboratory’s scientific plan can be viewed here (in french) : projet scientifique 2025

1. Sensorialities: limits, materialities, and interactions
2. Grey zones and turbulence
3. Tectonics of Time
4. Between the human and the non-human: critical recompositions