Institut des mondes africains


The Institut des mondes africains is a French academic mixed and interdisciplinary research unit for African studies, in which the national research organisation CNRS, three other French national academic research institutions and two universities collaborate. They are the Institut de recherche pour le développement, the École pratique des hautes études, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Aix-Marseille University and the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
IMAF was founded on January 1, 2014 by merging three research centres: the Centre d'études des mondes africains, the Centre d'études africaines and the Centre d’histoire sociale de l’islam méditerranéen. The institute is located both at the Campus Condorcet Paris-Aubervilliers in Aubervilliers and at Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme of Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence.
WWW imaf.cnrs.fr

Research areas

Source:
  1. The creation and circulation of knowledge
  2. The long history of political economies and globalization in Africa
  3. Power, space, time and uses of the past
  4. Religious spaces: Genealogies, textualities, materialities
  5. Art as a political object
  6. Gender, bodies, subjectivities.

IMAF academic journals

IMAF is involved in several academic journals:Afriques. Débats, méthodes et terrains d’histoire, online journal.Anthropologie et développement, formerly Bulletin de l'APAD, published by the Association euro-africaine pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement. online at revue.orgCahiers d'études africaines, founded in 1960.Politique africaine, in collaboration with the institute Les Afriques dans le monde, published by Éditions Karthala.

Collaborations

IMAF is a member of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, a European academic research network for African studies. Within France IMAF participates in the multidisciplinary research group Études africaines en France of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and houses its secretariat. IMAF co-organised biannual meetings of Africanists in France, such the 3e Journées du Réseau des études africaines at Bordeaux in 2014, the 6th European Conferences on African Studies in Paris and the 7e Rencontres des Études Africaines en France at Toulouse in 2022.

Libraries

The Bibliothèque de recherches africaines has been transferred to the library Grand équipement documentaire of the Campus Condorcet in Paris. The library of the Centre d'études africaines, 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 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.