Jean‐pierre Olivier De Sardan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean‐pierre Olivier De Sardan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean‐pierre Olivier |
| FAMILY NAME | De Sardan |
| SIGNATURE | DE SARDAN J P O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonial Studies against Social Sciences: Missing the Mark
Proponents of decolonial studies criticize ‘the epistemology of the North’, inherited from the Enlightenment and inherent in the West's colonial domination of the world, and — in their view — still alive today. They contrast it with the ‘epistemologies of the South’, based on the traditional knowledges and worldviews of Indigenous and colonized peoples. But the decolonial perspective does not take into account the emergence of the empirical socia…
Everyday Corruption and the State: Citizens and Public Officials in Africa
Daily life in Africa is governed by the 'petty' corruption of public officials in services such as health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in three African countries investigates the reasons for its extraordinary prevalence. The authors construct an illuminating analytical framework around the various forms of corruption, the corruptive strategies public officials resort to, and how these forms and …
The ethnographic pact and documentary film1
The opposition between visual anthropology ("ethnographic cinema") and documentaries is basically a false problem, as far as both are based on a “realist pact”, with ethical and technical dimensions. The “ethnographic pact” is only a variant of this realist pact. It is through the complex system of choices common to all documentaries, of which a detailed description is given, that the ethnographicity of a documentary manifests itself, with its em…
Le développement comme champ politique local 1
Le développement : remarques préliminairesÉvitons les sempiternels débats sur "développement et croissance", ce qu'est le "vrai" développement, est‐ce que le développement est un but, une mystique, une utopie, un mal, etc. C'est d'abord une réalité. Il y a développement dès lors qu'il y a des "développeurs" (occidentaux ou nationaux, institutionnels ou ONG), dès lors que des interventions volontaristes d'origine extérieure à un milieu‐cible visen…
Peasant Logics and Development Project Logics
Le développement comme champ politique local 1
Le développement : remarques préliminairesÉvitons les sempiternels débats sur "développement et croissance", ce qu'est le "vrai" développement, est‐ce que le développement est un but, une mystique, une utopie, un mal, etc. C'est d'abord une réalité. Il y a développement dès lors qu'il y a des "développeurs" (occidentaux ou nationaux, institutionnels ou ONG), dès lors que des interventions volontaristes d'origine extérieure à un milieu‐cible visen…
Peasant Logics and Development Project Logics
The ethnographic pact and documentary film1
The opposition between visual anthropology ("ethnographic cinema") and documentaries is basically a false problem, as far as both are based on a “realist pact”, with ethical and technical dimensions. The “ethnographic pact” is only a variant of this realist pact. It is through the complex system of choices common to all documentaries, of which a detailed description is given, that the ethnographicity of a documentary manifests itself, with its em…
Peasant Logics and Development Project Logics
Le développement comme champ politique local 1
Le développement : remarques préliminairesÉvitons les sempiternels débats sur "développement et croissance", ce qu'est le "vrai" développement, est‐ce que le développement est un but, une mystique, une utopie, un mal, etc. C'est d'abord une réalité. Il y a développement dès lors qu'il y a des "développeurs" (occidentaux ou nationaux, institutionnels ou ONG), dès lors que des interventions volontaristes d'origine extérieure à un milieu‐cible visen…
The ethnographic pact and documentary film1
The opposition between visual anthropology ("ethnographic cinema") and documentaries is basically a false problem, as far as both are based on a “realist pact”, with ethical and technical dimensions. The “ethnographic pact” is only a variant of this realist pact. It is through the complex system of choices common to all documentaries, of which a detailed description is given, that the ethnographicity of a documentary manifests itself, with its em…
Everyday Corruption and the State: Citizens and Public Officials in Africa
Daily life in Africa is governed by the 'petty' corruption of public officials in services such as health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in three African countries investigates the reasons for its extraordinary prevalence. The authors construct an illuminating analytical framework around the various forms of corruption, the corruptive strategies public officials resort to, and how these forms and …
Decolonial Studies against Social Sciences: Missing the Mark
Proponents of decolonial studies criticize ‘the epistemology of the North’, inherited from the Enlightenment and inherent in the West's colonial domination of the world, and — in their view — still alive today. They contrast it with the ‘epistemologies of the South’, based on the traditional knowledges and worldviews of Indigenous and colonized peoples. But the decolonial perspective does not take into account the emergence of the empirical socia…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Africa (1 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works)