Institut des mondes africains
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| formation = 1 January 2014
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| merger = Centre d’études des mondes africains (CEMAf), Centre d’études africaines (CEAf) and Centre d’histoire sociale de l’islam méditerranéen (CHSIM)
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| type = French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Aix-Marseille University
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| purpose = African studies, Anthropology, Archeology, History, Political science
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| headquarters = Ivry-sur-Seine, France
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| coordinates = {{WikidataCoord|Q16643728}} 48°48'49.612"N, 2°23'15.079"E
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| language = French
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| leader_title = Director
| leader_name = Elena Vezzadini and Anne Doquet
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The Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) is a French academic mixed and interdisciplinary research unit for African studies, in which the national research organisation CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), three other French national academic research institutions and two universities collaborate. They are the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD, French Research Institute for Development), the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) and the Aix-Marseille University and the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.{{cite web |url=https://www.ehess.fr/en/african-worlds-institute-imaf |title=Institut des mondes africains - IMAF |last= |first= |date= |website=ehess.fr/en/african-worlds-institute-imaf |publisher=EHESS École des hautes études en sciences sociales |access-date=8 January 2023 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://imaf.cnrs.fr/?lang=en |title=IMAF Institut des mondes africains |last= |first= |date=2023 |website=imaf.cnrs.fr |publisher=IMAF Institut des mondes africains |access-date=8 January 2023 |quote=}}
IMAF was founded on January 1, 2014 by merging three research centres: the Centre d'études des mondes africains (CEMAf), the Centre d'études africaines (CEAf) and the Centre d’histoire sociale de l’islam méditerranéen (CHSIM). The institute is located both at the Campus Condorcet Paris-Aubervilliers in Aubervilliers and at Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme (MMSH) of Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence.{{Cite web |title=IMAF - Institut des mondes africains - Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) |url=https://imaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1&lang=fr |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=imaf.cnrs.fr}}
Research areas
- The creation and circulation of knowledge
- The long history of political economies and globalization in Africa
- Power, space, time and uses of the past
- Religious spaces: Genealogies, textualities, materialities
- Art as a political object
- Gender, bodies, subjectivities.
IMAF academic journals
IMAF is involved in several academic journals:
- Afriques. Débats, méthodes et terrains d’histoire, online journal.Refer to the [http://afriques.revues.org website of Afriques].
- Anthropologie et développement, formerly Bulletin de l'APAD, published by the Association euro-africaine pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement (APAD).Refer to the [http://www.association-apad.org/ website of APAD]. online at revue.orgThe [http://apad.revues.org website of Anthropologie et développement] at revue.org.
- Cahiers d'études africaines, founded in 1960.Refer to [http://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-etudes-africaines.htm Cairn.info] and [http://etudesafricaines.revues.org Revues.org]
- Politique africaine, in collaboration with the institute Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM, Bordeaux), published by Éditions Karthala.Refer to the [http://www.politique-africaine.com website of Politique africaine].
Collaborations
IMAF is a member of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS), a European academic research network for African studies. Within France IMAF participates in the multidisciplinary research group Études africaines en France (African studies in France) of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and houses its secretariat.{{Cite web |language=fr |title=Études africaines en France. Groupement d'intérêt scientifique (GIS) |url=http://etudes-africaines.cnrs.fr |date= |website=etudes-africaines.cnrs.fr |access-date=7 January 2023}} IMAF co-organised biannual meetings of Africanists in France, such the 3e Journées du Réseau des études africaines (REAf) at Bordeaux in 2014,{{Cite web |language=fr |title=3e Rencontres des Études Africaines en France |url=http://reaf2014.sciencesconf.org |date=2014 |website=reaf2014.sciencesconf.org |access-date=7 January 2023}} the 6th European Conferences on African Studies (ECAS 2015) in Paris{{cite web |url=https://www.aegis-eu.org/archive/ecas2015/www.ecas2015.fr/index.html |title=ECAS 2015 6th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN STUDIES Paris, 8-10 July 2015. Collective mobilisations in Africa: contestation, resistance, revolt |last= |first= |date= |website=aegis-eu.org |publisher=AEGIS |access-date=8 January 2023 |quote=}} and the 7e Rencontres des Études Africaines en France (7e REAf and 6e JCEA) at Toulouse in 2022 (JCEA : Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheur·e·s en Études Africaines).{{Cite web |language=fr |title=7e REAf et 6e JCEA Rencontres des Études Africaines en France |url=https://reaf2022.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/14 |date=2022 |website=reaf2022.sciencesconf.org |access-date=7 January 2023}}
Libraries
The Bibliothèque de recherches africaines (BRA) has been transferred to the library Grand équipement documentaire (GED ) of the Campus Condorcet in Paris.{{Cite web |language=fr |title=Grand équipement documentaire : fin du premier déménagement des collections |url=https://www.campus-condorcet.fr/actualites/grand-equipement-documentaire-fin-du-premier-demenagement-des-collections |website=Campus Condorcet |date= |access-date=8 January 2023}}{{Cite web |language=fr |title=La Bibliothèque de recherches africaines (BRA) |url=https://www.imaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article3 |website=imaf.cnrs.fr |date= |access-date=8 January 2023}} The library of the Centre d'études africaines (CEAf),Refer to the [http://ceaf.ehess.fr/index.php?51 website of the library of Centre d'études africaines (CEAf)]. founded in 1957 and containing about 25.000 monographies and more than 500 academic journals, has been subsumed by the Paris Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC) in 2011. At Aix-en-Provence the old library of the Institut d'études africaines has been integrated into the Multimedia library of the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme (MMSH).{{Cite web |language=fr |title=Library. Les bibliothèques de l’IMAF. |url=https://imaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique36&lang=en |website=imaf.cnrs.fr |date= |access-date=12 January 2023}}
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Category:2014 establishments in France
Category:Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
Category:Aix-Marseille University
Category:Anthropological research institutes
Category:French National Centre for Scientific Research