Johan FISCHER is an associate professor and Head of Studies (International Development Studies) in the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark. His work focuses on modern religion and consumer culture : the interfaces between class, consumption, market relations and the state in a globalized world.
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Member of the team of ANR FORSEA
Claire Flécher is a lecturer and researcher in sociology at Lumière Lyon 2 University and the Max Weber Center. Her research focuses on changes in work and employment, particularly when these involve forms of globalized labor (posted workers, merchant seafarers, migrant workers, etc.). The aim is to better understand the impact of these movements on work and workers, and to what extent they produce specific trajectories and professional careers. The (...)

Alain Forest, historian and professor at the University Paris VII makes a Historical memorandum on the Chinese communities in South-East Asia.
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Resident Researcher from 2013 to 2014
Bernard Formoso est professeur d’ethnologie à l’université Paris Ouest –Nanterre – La Défense et est membre du Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative (LESC – UMR 7186). Il a successivement étudié l’évolution socio-économique de villages rizicoles du nord-est de la Thaïlande, les communautés chinoises de Thaïlande et d’Asie du Sud-Est, l’ethnicité des populations Taïes et des montagnards d’Asie du Sud-Est, la sémiologie des costumes des minorités du Yunnan (...)

Frédéric Fortunel is a lecturer-researcher at the University of Maine, Espaces et Sociétés laboratory (UMR CNRS 6590). With Trần Đac Dân, he is the author of the scientific project supported by the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie "Les hévéacultures familiales vietnamo-cambodgiennes" from 2010 to 2012. For this project, he received a grant from the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) in Siem Reap. This work is part of a series of projects on agricultural and social issues in mainland Southeast (...)

Philip FOUNTAIN is a Teaching Fellow in Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Prior to this he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Religion Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He received his doctorate in anthropology from the Australian National University. He has published extensively on religion and development, religion and disaster relief, the anthropology of Christianity and anthropological theologies. His books include Religion (...)

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Éric Frécon has a PhD in political science (Sciences Po, 2007) and lives in Singapore. He is an associate researcher at IRASEC as well as at IRSEM (Institut de recherche stratégique de l’École militaire) and at the Naval School, where he taught for six years. He is now a visiting academic at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) and associate at SUSS (Singapore University of Social Sciences). From 2012 to 2019, he (...)

Member of the team of ANR FORSEA
Antoine Frémont is a Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), where he has held the Chair in “Transport, Flows, and Sustainable Mobility” since March 2022. He has served in several senior roles within higher education and public transport institutions, including the Université Gustave Eiffel, Réseau Ferré de France (now SNCF Réseau), and IFSTTAR. He has also taught at the University of Le Havre.
His research focuses on maritime (...)

Member of the team of ANR FORSEA
Master’s student in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action at Sciences Po, I spent the last two years studying in Taiwan. I have focused since the beginning of my studies on sociological and human rights issues related to the work and status of seafarers. Various field works with organisations such as the Seamen’s Club have enabled me to meet people who still motivate me today to continue my research in this field. I will be an intern for six months in (...)

Winner of the IRASEC 2025 field grants
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Marvin Freyne is a doctoral student in anthropology at Paris Cité University, affiliated with the Center for Population and Development (CEPED – UMR 196 : Paris Cité University, IRD, Sorbonne Paris Nord University, Inserm). His thesis, supervised by Laëtitia Atlani-Duault (IRD/CEPED) & Myriam de Loenzien (IRD/CEPED), focuses on the mobilizations in Vietnam and France resulting from the long-term consequences of Agent (...)