the French-speaking social sciences have remained singularly silent on prison issues in Africa. This volume aims to fill this gap based on ethnographic research conducted in ten countries of the continent. Breaking with the archetypal images, this book offers a nuanced reading of the prison experience articulated to representations of justice.

the book offers a novel analysis of the gendered dynamics that permeate the forms of collective action and the way in which commitment contributes to changing gender relations in contemporary Mali. From decolonisation in 1960 to 1991 revolution, four decades of social and political struggles have shaped the country's highly non-consensual history.

This book focuses on the competition in the urban space of Dakar, between different categories of actors in a situation of co-presence: groups of deterritorialized Chinese evolving in the commercial activity, and young promoters of economic activities with little legitimacy; shoemakers and street traders.

How to build a Post-Western theory, based on the sociology of migration in France and in China? Where do Western and Non-Western theories converge, and how do common and situated knowledge coexist and interlock? This book is Based on French and Chinese research experiences in the field of migration.

This work, both a historical and sociological survey drawn from a doctoral thesis in sociology, shows how a form of excellence developed in mountaineering as a particular field of practice. the object of this investigation is to reveal how the ideologies of the English bourgeoisie who gave birth to it live on in the spirit of mountaineering.