Research teams

Presentation of the center for Social Anthropology - LISST CAS

The research carried out within the Center for Social Anthropology covers a large part of the classic fields of anthropology (kinship, religious fact, politics, economics, etc.). They have a marked diachronic dimension, with attention paid by a certain number of members to the historicity of the social. They are organized in particular around a few major cross-cutting themes: living things, reflexivity, belief, forms of link and materialities (find out more).
The team meets and discusses during the monthly sessions of the General Anthropology Seminar. It is involved in education and training, its members leading the bachelor's, master's and doctorate courses in anthropology at Jean Jaurès University.

The Collectif: Expériences Réseaux et Sociétés (CERS) is LISST's fundamental sociology team, which has recently been joined by geographers, anthropologists and psychologists. This openness reflects an interest in the complexity of contemporary social dynamics and a desire to tackle them using a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches and multiple scales of analysis.

Whether studying social networks, migration, work and the digital environment, economic activities and markets, or health, the common starting point for the CERS team is that of the actors, their relationships, their activities and rationale for action, as well as their trajectories and experiences.

The team is committed to interdisciplinary, participatory research, carried out as close as possible to the actors, while maintaining a strong academic and institutional commitment.

CIEU works on the transformations of cities, under the influence of an increasingly globalized circulation of models, norms and forms of organization of urban societies. Its researchers explore diverse areas, ranging from local spaces to more distant geographic areas.
Among the main research themes, we can cite the habitat, the relationship between economy and urban spaces, the sustainable city and the urban climate. The CIEU pays particular attention to policies that act on the city, helping to modify both its social and civic functioning and its economic structures.
The team's work relates not only to Toulouse and the cities of Midi-Pyrénées but also to European cities (Berlin, Bristol, Zaragoza, etc.), to cities in Russia and Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Mexico) , West Africa (Dakar, Saint-Louis ...), or South (Namibia, South Africa ...) of the Middle East (Cairo), the Maghreb, the United States, Canada ...

Presentation of the team of Rural Dynamics - LISST DR