New Post.Doc project: The Politics of Transnational Capitalism in TanzaniaFrance Bourgouin joins the research unit for Politics and Governance.France Bourgouin joined DIIS on April 1, 2009, as a Project Researcher with the Politics and Governance Research Unit. Her research focuses on the impact of transnational capitalist practices on the political authority of state elite in the current post-colonial setting of foreign mining investments in Tanzania. She will be exploring how the configuration of state elite is changing with increased FDI and the presence of external agents of capital in extractive industries. France Bourgouin completed her doctoral thesis in 2007 on the formation of a new African transnational capitalist elite Johannesburg. This work is focused on the study of processes of identification and emergence of capitalist elite migrants in relation to contemporary socio-economic and political processes and considers the links existing between elite African migration into Johannesburg and the recent transitions in the city’s economic environment, the increasing South African economic involvement throughout sub-Saharan African. Since 2003 she has been based at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is a member of the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (Iris) and was a lecturer at Sciences Po. Before coming to Paris, she was a doctoral candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg. She also lectured at the University of Pretoria and had a short internship with the Southern African Migration Project. Her academic training is in Economics, Human Geography, and Social Anthropology. |
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