Created in 1991, APAD seeks to advance scientific exchanges as well as dialogue with development actors on issues of social change and development, in Africa and elsewhere.
APAD promotes rigorous analysis of the practices and representations of actors, with an orientation rooted in social anthropology and in the qualitative social sciences overall. Initially focused on the study of interactions between actors of development interventions, APAD’s approach has since broadened to include development policies and processes of social change.
APAD publishes the journal Anthropologie & développement (replacing the APAD Bulletin), edits books, and, every two years, organises a conference. 400 members strong, it has created a space for researchers and practitioners – from the Global North and the Global South, Anglophone or Francophone – for sharing ideas and for publishing.
APAD 2020 Conference: the Call for Papers is open
The Call for Papers for our 2020 international Conference is open. Proposals should preferably contribute to one of the 21 selected panels. It is also possible to submit proposals on topics not covered by the panels provided that they are clearly related to the main...
Capitalism, Entrepreneurs and Business Associations at Work: New Ethnographies of Private Sector Dynamics in Africa
Call for papers for a thematic issue of the journal ‘Anthropology and Development’, To be coordinated by Thomas Bierschenk and José María Muñoz, to be published in 2021 This issue aims to explore ethnographically and analytically the links between emergent...
2020 APAD international conference: the call for panels is open
The theme of the APAD 2020 International Conference Circulations in the global South: Ethnographic explorations of globalized exchanges. It is organized in partnership with the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Lomé (Togo) and will take place...
Anthropologie & développement 48-49 est en ligne
Le numéro 48-49/2018 d'Anthropologie & développement est en ligne. Coordonné par Ph.Lavigne Delville, S.Ayimpam et R. Mongbo, le dossier "l'enchâssement social et politique de l'action publique" poursuit la valorisation du colloque de 2015. Issue 48-49/2018 of...
Au coeur des mondes de l’aide internationale : video of the conférence
On September the 18th, Philippe Lavigne Delville gave a conference at AFD, chaired by Gaël Giraud, chief economist at AFD. The video is online.
