CESSMA

The CESSMA - Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques is an interdisciplinary research unit based in Paris, France aggregating researchers and Ph.D. candidates from Paris Diderot University, INALCO, and Institut de recherche pour [le développement|IRD].

History

The CESSMA was created in 2014 from the merger of three research units : the SEDET related to Paris Diderot University, the HSTM, related to INALCO, and the DEVSOC, related to IRD. The project was to combine the strengths of these three prime French research and academic institutes researching on Asia, Africa and South America to build a world-class centre for the comparative study of social dynamics in developing countries.

Selected publications

Véronique Dupont, The Politics of Slums in the Global South
Bernard Hours, Pépita Ould Ahmed, An anthropological economy of debt
Isabelle Guérin, ''Under Development Gender''