France Bourgouin

PhD, Social Anthropology
Project Researcher, research unit on Politics and development
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Personal CV

Expertise

Political economy of extractive industries (focus on mining); Natural Resource Governance (focus on mineral industries); Mining and development; Mineral policy reform; Anthropology of Law and Policy; Business Anthropology and corporate governance; Sub-Saharan Africa; Greenland and the Circumpolar North.

Selected projects and programmes

Research on mining regulations and policy analysis
International development policy
CSR and Corporate Governance
Research on global uranium industry regulation
Mining industry development in Greenland and the Arctic

Selected publications

with Ole Therkildsen (2012). Continuity and change in Tanzania's ruling coalition. Legacies, crises and weak productive capacity. DIIS Working Paper 2012:06 : Elite Poverty and Productivity Series.
2011. The Politics of Large-scale mining in Africa: domestic policy, donors, and global economic processes. Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Vol 111. no. 7. pp. 525-529.
with C. Vestergaard (in press june 2012). Should Greenland mine its uranium? DIIS Policy Brief.
2011. A missed opportunity: Mining for Sustainable Development. DIIS Policy Brief. January.
2011. Elite Distinction: practices of cosmopolitanism and self-representation. In Daloz, J.P. (ed.) Comparative Sociology Vol. 10. Brill. Pp.571-590.
2012. On being cosmopolitan: lifestyle and identity of African finance professionals in Johannesburg. Ethnos Vol. 77 (1), pp. 50-71.
2011. Des individualistes mondialisés? Ruptures et discontinuités dans les familles d’élites africaines transnationales. In Rozy, E. and V. baby-Colin (eds.) Autrepart No. 57/58.

Selected commissioned work

2012 IAEA: Nuclear Security Programme for the Uranium Industry.
2012 DANIDA Commissioned Research: ReCom: The International Research Programme. Report on development aid practices.
2012 World Bank: Assessment of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Mozambique.

Selected research related activities

Convenor of Arctic Working Group, DIIS.
2009 Lecturer, Sciences Po, Paris - elective course taught Global Africa: big business, economic power and capitalism in sub-saharan African

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