Laurent Fourchard
{{Short description|French historian and political scientist}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Laurent Fourchard
| nationality = French
| occupation = Professor, historian, political scientist
| awards = LSA Distinguished Scholar Award
| education = MPhil./PhD., African History, University of Paris 7
| workplaces = French National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP), Centre for International Relations (CERI), Urban School of Sciences Po Paris
| doctoral_advisor = Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
| main_interests = Socio-political history of urbanism in Africa
| notable_works = Classify, Exclude, Police: Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria; Trier, exclure et policer: Vies urbaines en Afrique du Sud et au Nigeria
| discipline = History, Political Science
| thesis_title = "Espaces, pouvoirs et sociétés à Ouagadougou et à Bobo-Dioulasso, Haute-Volta, fin 19ème siècle-1960" (Spaces, Powers and Societies in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, Upper Volta, Late 19th century – 1960)
| thesis_year = 2000
| thesis_url = https://www.theses.fr/2000PA070010
}}
Laurent Fourchard is a French historian and political scientist at the National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP)'s Centre for International Relations (CERI) and at the Urban School of Sciences Po Paris, where he is a research professor.{{Cite web |date=2019-02-21 |title=Chercheur {{!}} Sciences Po CERI |url=http://sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/cerispire-user/13164/14566 |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=sciencespo.fr |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2018-10-29 |title=Laurent Fourchard {{!}} Sciences Po Department of History |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/en/researcher/Laurent%20Fourchard/76183.html |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=www.sciencespo.fr |language=en}} His research and publications explore the themes of crime and violence, security and vigilantism, urbanism and governance of metropolises, urban transport and transport unionism, political sociology of Nigeria and South Africa, and the history and historiography of contemporary Africa.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-22 |title=Laurent Fourchard |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/laurent-fourchard-1441457 |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=The Conversation |language=en}} In June 2023, Fourchard won the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Lagos Studies Association.
Education
Fourchard obtained a Master of Philosophy in history at University of Paris 7 (now Paris Diderot University) in 1995. He earned his doctorate degree in African history at the same university in 2000 under the supervision of Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch.{{Cite thesis |title=Espaces, pouvoirs et sociétés à Ouagadougou et à Bobo-Dioulasso, Haute-Volta, fin 19ème siècle-1960 |url=https://www.theses.fr/2000PA070010 |publisher=Paris 7 |date=2000-01-01 |degree=These de doctorat |first=Laurent |last=Fourchard}} He then received a Habilitation (HDR) in political science from Sciences Po Paris in 2014, under the guaranteeship of Jean François Bayart and Frederick Cooper.{{Cite web |date=2014-10-20 |title=SEMINAR CITIES: Présentation de l'ouvrage collectif "Governing Cities in Africa, Politics and Policies" (2013) avec Laurent Fourchard et Sophie Didier, le 12 novembre 2014, 17h-19h |url=http://blogs.sciences-po.fr/recherche-villes/seminaire-cities-presentation-de-governing-cities-in-africa-politics-and-policies-par-laurent-fourchard-et-sophie-didier-le-12-novembre-2014-17h-19h/ |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=Cities are back in town |language=fr-FR}}
Career
Upon completing his PhD., Fourchard was appointed as Director of the French Institute for Research in Africa in Nigeria (IFRA-Nigeria), in the University of Ibadan, from 2000 to 2003.{{Cite web |title=Laurent Fourchard : podcasts et actualités |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/personnes/laurent-fourchard |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=Radio France |language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Interview with Laurent Fourchard // Studying the Sociology of NURTW members |url=https://www.ifra-nigeria.org/latest-news/2-non-categorise/497-interview-with-laurent-fourchard-studying-the-sociology-of-nurtw-members |website=IFRA-Nigeria}} Before joining CERI in 2016, he was a research fellow at the Les Afriques dans le monde research institute at Sciences Po Bordeaux.{{Cite web |title=Laurent FOURCHARD |url=https://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/membre/laurent-fourchard/ |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM) |language=fr-FR}} In 2008 and 2009 he was visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town, Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2010, 2023), University of Turin (2020), and Columbia University (2022).
Fourchard has authored 3 monographs, and well over 50 journals articles and book chapters in English and French languages. His most recent book is Classify, Exclude, Police: Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria, which was released in 2021 as the English version of his French monograph, Trier, exclure et policer: Vies urbaines en Afrique du Sud et au Nigeria which was released in 2018.{{Cite web |title=Classify, Exclude, Police: Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria {{!}} Wiley |url=https://www.wiley.com/en-ie/Classify%2C+Exclude%2C+Police%3A+Urban+Lives+in+South+Africa+and+Nigeria-p-9781119582649 |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=Wiley.com |language=en-ie}}{{Cite web |last= |title=Trier, exclure et policer |url=https://www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCOI=27246100715710 |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=Presses de Sciences Po |language=en}}
Fourchard combines the methodologies of history and ethnography to deliver compelling comparative analyses of the urban politics of social categorization and policing in Nigerian and South African cities.
At different points in his career, Fourchard has edited or been on the editorial boards of the following high-impact journals: Africa, Journal of African History, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Politique africaine.{{Cite web |last=Périer |first=Miriam |date=2021-06-10 |title=Celebrating Forty Years of Politique africaine. Interview with Sandrine Perrot |url=http://sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/content/celebrating-forty-years-politique-africaine-interview-sandrine-perrot |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=Sciences Po |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Editorial Board |url=https://www.ijurr.org/editorial-board/ |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=IJURR |language=en-GB}}{{Cite journal |journal=Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute|volume= 85|issue= 1|date= February 2015 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/31378 |access-date=2023-06-24 |title=The politics of exclusion and inclusion in Africa |editor1=Fourchard, Laurent |editor2=Segatti, Aurelia |language=en}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite journal |last1=Fourchard |first1=Laurent |last2=Sikiru |first2=Azeez Kayode |year=2023 |title=The 2023 Cashless Election in Nigeria: The Politics of Withdrawing Money |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adad019 |journal=African Affairs |volume=122 |issue=488 |pages=429–445 |doi=10.1093/afraf/adad019 |issn=0001-9909|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |date=2023-01-02 |title=Expanding profit and power. The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Nigeria |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02255189.2022.2132924 |journal=Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement |language=en |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=97–112 |doi=10.1080/02255189.2022.2132924 |s2cid=253616459 |issn=0225-5189|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite book |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOEmEAAAQBAJ&q=laurent+fourchard |title=Classify, Exclude, Police: Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria |date=2021-04-19 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-58262-5 |language=en}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |title=Undocumented citizens and the making of ID documents in Nigeria: an ethnography of the politics of suspicion in Jos |url=https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article-abstract/120/481/511/6409987 |journal=African Affairs |year=2021 |volume=120 |issue=481 |pages=511–541 |doi=10.1093/afraf/adab022 |via=|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite book |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |url=https://journals.openedition.org/lectures/27249 |title=Trier, exclure et policer: Vies urbaines en Afrique du Sud et au Nigeria |publisher=Les Presses de Sciences Po |year=2018 |isbn=978-2-7246-2320-8 |location=Paris |language=fr}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |date=2015 |title=Bureaucrats and Indigenes: Producing and Bypassing Certificates of Origin in Nigeria |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/article/abs/bureaucrats-and-indigenes-producing-and-bypassing-certificates-of-origin-in-nigeria/6C4D2765E8716501EDB773C96E7CFB70 |journal=Africa |language=en |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=37–58 |doi=10.1017/S0001972014000734 |s2cid=144770285 |issn=0001-9720|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |date=2012-03-01 |title=Security and party politics in Cape Town |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718511002132 |journal=Geoforum |series=SI - Party Politics, the Poor and the City: reflections from South Africa |language=en |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=199–206 |doi=10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.12.002 |issn=0016-7185|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |date=2008 |title=A New Name for an Old Practice: Vigilantes in South-Western Nigeria |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/article/abs/new-name-for-an-old-practice-vigilantes-in-southwestern-nigeria/296F5B0BF022FF032FB0B71B02747B29 |journal=Africa |language=en |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=16–40 |doi=10.3366/E000197200800003X |s2cid=17939390 |issn=1750-0184|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |date=2007 |title=Violences et ordre politique au Nigeria |url=http://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2007-2-page-4.htm |journal=Politique Africaine |language=fr |volume=106 |issue=2 |pages=4–27 |doi=10.3917/polaf.106.0004 |issn=0244-7827|doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |date=2006 |title=Lagos and the Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Nigeria, 1920-60 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/abs/lagos-and-the-invention-of-juvenile-delinquency-in-nigeria-192060/726DBC016B543E986030E0F2CB9C7A3A |journal=The Journal of African History |language=en |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=115–137 |doi=10.1017/S0021853705001660 |s2cid=37102680 |issn=1469-5138}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fourchard |first=Laurent |date=2004 |title=L'histoire urbaine en Afrique : une perspective ouest-africaine |url=http://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-urbaine-2004-1-page-129.htm?ref=doi |journal=Histoire urbaine |language=fr |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=129–144 |doi=10.3917/rhu.009.0129 |issn=1628-0482|url-access=subscription }}
References
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External links
- {{ResearchGate | Laurent-Fourchard-2}}
- {{Google Scholar ID|id=L2PCgGkAAAAJ}}
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Category:French political scientists