Marie-Aude Fouéré – 2018-22

Marie-Aude Fouéré is a Social and Political Anthropologist researching on collective memories and the uses of the past; ethnicity, nation and race; African socialism and revolution. She mainly works in Tanzania mainland (Morogoro, Rufiji, Butiama) and Zanzibar. She was IFRA’s Researcher and Deputy Director in 2011-2014 and IFRA’s Director in 2018-2022, on a secondment from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France, where she is full-track Assistant Professor and full member of the Institut des mondes africains (IMAF). She is an associate member at Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM, Bordeaux)
Her PhD thesis (published in 2008) was a deconstruction of the category of ‘joking relationship‘ as constructed in colonial and structuralist anthropology, taking Tanzania’s utani as a case study. Since then, she has been researching and publishing about ethnicity, race and nationalism in Tanzania, notably focusing on the memory of former president Julius Nyerere and of African Socialism (Ujamaa), as well as on the revolution of 1964 in Zanzibar. She is also interested in elections in East Africa (Zanzibar 2010, 2015, 2020; Kenya 2013, 2022).
She was one of the founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Sources: Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies between 2018 and 2022 as well as of Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est/The East African Review, IFRA’s journal She is a member of the Editorial Board of Cahiers d’Etudes africaines; and the Journal of Eastern African Studies.
See some of her books and volumes on the African Books Collective platform; see also her professional webpage.
marie-aude.fouere@ehess.fr
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