André Chappatte
André Chappatte
Professeur assistant
André Chappatte, ancien étudiant en sociologie à l’Université Genève, a obtenu en 2013 un PhD en anthropologie sociale de la SOAS, Londres. Il a ensuite vécu six ans à Berlin où il a travaillé comme chercheur puis responsable d’un groupe de recherche au ZMO. Il est de retour à Genève depuis avril 2020 comme professeur assistant au Global Studies Institute grâce à un subside Eccellenza du FNS. Il est également chercheur associé auprès de l’Institut de Recherches Sociologiques (IRS) de l’Université de Genève.
Accumulant près de 4 ans de terrain entre le Mali et la Côte d’Ivoire, ses recherches multiples ont comme point de départ le devenir moral de l’expérience humaine dans les sociétés musulmanes en Afrique de l’Ouest. Il a notamment publié sur la migration intra-africaine, l’Islam publique et la consommation des produits chinois. Il a aussi récemment fait un film sur la vie nocturne dans une ville provinciale du nord de la Côte d’Ivoire. Son analyse est influencée par la pensée sociale, la géographie humaine et l’écriture phénoménologique.
Il donne un cours intitulé Anthropologie des sociétés musulmanes en Afrique sub-saharienne dans le cadre du Master en études africaines (GSI)
Il travaille actuellement sur un nouveau projet de recherche intitulé « The contemporary expansion of corporate Islam in rural West Africa ».
Sa phase de terrain est illustrée dans le blog suivant : https://cecirwa.hypotheses.org/
Publications
Monograph
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2022. In Search of ‘Tunga’. Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town.
African Perspectives Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
https://www.press.umich.edu/12122673/in_search_of_tunga
Edited volume
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2022. Co-édité avec Abdoulaye Sounaye. Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa. Practice, Influences, and Trajectories. Berlin: de Gruyter.
- 2018. Understanding the City through its Margins. Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Edited with U. Freitag and N. Lafi. New York: Routledge, 190p.
Articles
- ‘Yutong ça nous arrange’: The arrival of Chinese coaches in West Africa, reliefs, opportunities and reactions. Khan-Mohammad, G. and Kernen, A. (eds): Special Issue on Chinese goods in Africa. Critical African Studies (under review).
- When Silence becomes 'Yeelen' (Light): the synesthetic phenomenology of a nocturnal solo zikr practice (Odienné, Ivory Coast). Meyer, B and Stolow, J (eds): Special Section on Religion and Light. Critical Research on Religion. (forthcoming).
- 2018. ‘The vulture without fear’: Exploring the noble Muslim in contemporary rural Mali. Marsden, M. and Retsikas, K (eds): Special Section on Invisible Hands of Life: Alternate Modes of Prosperity. HAU: Journal for Ethnographic Theory 8 (3): 686–701.
- 2018. Crowd, sensationalism and power: the yearly Ansar Dine ‘pilgrimage’ of Maouloud in
- Bamako. Journal of Religion in Africa, 48 (1-2): 3-34.
- 2018. In Search of Urbanity. Co-written with Alimia S., Freitag U. and Lafi N. ZMO Programmatic Texts Series, 12.
https://www.zmo.de/publikationen/ProgramaticTexts/programmatic_text_12.pdf - 2016. Encounter between tiredness, dust and Ebola at a border checkpoint of northwestern Côte d’Ivoire. In Basel Papers on Political Transformations. Mobilities – In and Out of Africa., 10, 9-23.
https://ethnologie.unibas.ch/fileadmin/ethnologie/user_upload/redaktion/Research/Publications/Basel_Papers_No_10.pdf - 2015. Unpacking the concept of urban marginality. ZMO Programmatic Texts Series, 10. Berlin.
https://www.zmo.de/publikationen/ProgramaticTexts/chappatte_2015.pdf - 2014. Night life in urban Mali: being a Muslim maquisard in Bougouni. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 20 (3): 526-44.
- 2014. Chinese products, social mobility and material modernity in Bougouni, a small but fast-growing administrative town of southwest Mali. African Studies Review. 73 (1): 22-40.
Book chapters
- 2018. Exploring youth, media practices and religious affiliations in contemporary Mali through the controversy over the musical zikiri. In Becker F., Cabrita J. and Rodet M. (eds) Religion, Media and Marginality in Modern Africa, 229-255. Athens: Ohio University Press.
- 2018. Introduction: Urban marginality at an interdisciplinary crossroads. Co-written with
- Freitag U. & Lafi N.) In Chappatte A., Freitag U. & Lafi N. (eds.) Understanding the City
- through its Margins: pluridisciplinary perspectives from cases studies in Africa, Asia, and
- the Middle East, 1-15. New York: Routledge.
- 2017. ‘Texas’: an off-centre district at the heart of night life in Odienné. In Chappatte A., Freitag U. & Lafi N. (eds) Understanding the City through its Margins: pluridisciplinary perspectives from cases studies in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, 97-116. New York: Routledge.
Ethnographic Film
- 2019. A Day at Night: Dialogues between darkness and light in Odienné, a provincial town of northern Ivory Coast. Directed by Chappatte André. 2019. Berlin. Takis Sariannidis Smaller than Life Postproduction (forthcoming).