Thematic areas

The members of this axis are interested in political issues in the broadest sense. What we have in common is that we pay particular attention to the power relations that develop around different issues, and approach them from an ethnographic perspective that is attentive to historical dynamics. This collective reflection lies at the crossroads between political anthropology and various sub-fields of the discipline, such as the anthropology of capitalism, law and health.

Study of the ways in which humans relate to and communicate with the "other-than-human" creatures (animals, plants, spirits, meteorological phenomena, etc.) that inhabit their environment.

This area links the study of the social, cultural and political construction of childhood and youth with that of the daily life and agentivity of children and young people, to gain a better understanding of societies in movement.