The People
This is about us and what we are ready to share on the worlwide web
Jean-Philippe Venot
I am conducting research at the interface of Science and Technology Studies and the Anthropology of Development. I use these critical frameworks in support to the development and implementation of participatory approaches to support just water governance frameworks. I leave lots of comments on drafts, but I also have a particular fondness for cats and dogs, and I love gardening on my balcony – this allows me to keep nature tidy and goes well with my eye for details. I also read and collect comic books but that’s another story…
Romain Valadaud
I am a critical geographer who used to study on irrigation management in Asia. I learned a lot in these contexts, but I felt unanchored to a territory, a culture, and therefore a possibility to meaningfully impact the unequal and unsustaiable uses of water. A few more articles published by a white male in far away scientific journals did not seem like it would go a long way to produce change in water in authoritarien regime struck by a structural poverty. So I came back home, to France, to Montpellier a city were I was born and raised, and where, since then, I am working reflexively on participatory research. This feeds my attempts to build transdisicplinary alliances anchored in a hydrosocial territory in order to challenge power relations and structural to unequal and unsustainable uses of water. To cool down from work and militantism, I tend to walk a lot along all kinds of streams, small and large, quiet and talkative. It also feeds a growing passion for the creation of role playing games, which are increasingly water related…
Géraldine Abrami
she is very cool too
Amandine Adamczewski
she is a very cool guy
Luisa Barquero
she is very cool too
Olivier Barreteau
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Justine Bassoul
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Bruno Bonté
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Samia Chrii
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Anne-Laure Collard
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Raphaele Ducrot
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Titouan Filloux
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Emeline Hassenforder
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Charlotte Hemingway
I am what one could call an agro-geographer specialised in the analysis of agrarian transitions (so far in the Global South) and inequalities in agriculture. My work examines patterns of social differentiation among farms and explores who benefits and who loses from different policies and development processes. My research is grounded in fieldwork, involving extensive semi-structured interviews, alongside observations of landscapes and agricultural practices. I am particularly interested in how material conditions — such as access to infrastructure and the use of resources — shape social inequalities. I’m trying to make visible inequalities in agriculture, with the hope that public policies and development projects better consider the social diversity of farmers.
Caroline Lejars
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Sylvain Massuel
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Véronica Mitroi
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Sylvie Morardet
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Andrew Ogilvie
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Amine Saidani
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Paul-Malo Winsback
I am a political sociologist, and so far my work has mostly dealt with the construction of water bureaucracies in Southern Africa as well as the development of water and electricity markets in Senegal. These different fields have strengthened my interest in a reflexive approach to conducting research, attentive to the structural inequalities that shape our everyday relations and what we often consider to “go without saying” – even more so in postcolonial contexts. I am now conducting research on sustainability science and its role in supporting transformative governance on freshwater in the Global South, trying to bring forth a reflexive and critical perspective on our research practices.
Caroline Falize
I support the emergence of ideas, assemblages, and the expression of agreements and disagreements within groups. I design and facilitate participatory processes and gatherings. My joy lies in adapting programs as we go, making space for the unexpected to foster deep connections and breakthroughs. Walking, playing, moving, creating, awakening the body and the senses, letting emotions dance, elaborating installations and stories, and shifting perspectives to see more clearly. Always with gentleness, sensitivity, and care for each person’s needs and rhythms. Through these sensitive approaches, I widened the space for dialogue and reflexivity — so as to nurture individual and collective awakening and encourage cooperation and commitments to life.