The rise of social inequality and disenchantment with Western modernity have sparked experiments in alternative lifestyles around the world. Climate change and the necessary “environmental transition” have only made these projects more urgent. In the quest for a more related existence, indigenous peoples and non-Western grassroots movements recurrently appear as sources of inspiration. AltLife-SSEA sheds light on alternative life projects in the context of rural South and Southeast Asia (…)

In the Indo-Pacific region, cities and urban areas are confronted with the simultaneous acceleration of economic, environmental, and geopolitical changes. These dynamics profoundly affect their urban development trajectories as well as their capacity to anticipate, plan, and govern the future. The ongoing restructuration of the Indo-Pacific region have given rise to new multi-scale interdependencies that link regional and urban dynamics, resource flows, and modes of governance. This (...)

In a flagship region of global supply chain capitalism and a global hub for international migration, contemporary pathways of migration proliferate and labor geographies diversify. Against a backdrop of rapid changes in economies and labor markets, uneven North-South development and South-South competitions, intensive use of migrant labor, and inequalities, within Asian globalized labor regimes new situations of forced labor daily emerge. While a robust international scholarship has (...)

(Research project of Olivier Telle, IRASEC researcher)

The EXPOSOC project investigates the urban exposome—the totality of environmental exposures individuals face in urban settings—through a One Health lens. With a case study in Nan, Thailand, the project evaluates how environmental contaminants, zoonotic pathogens, and air pollution interact with human behaviors, including mobility, work habits, and preventive measures, to determine individual health.

South East Asia –Regional One Health Approach for Dengue Surveillance

One Health Regional Approach for Integrated and Interconnected Urban Dengue Surveillance in Southeast Asia

(Research project of Éric Daudé, affiliated researcher at IRASEC)

Rising global temperatures and invading mosquito species in urban environments pose a public health risk for arboviral outbreaks in Europe and must be addressed using an evidence-based rationale.

(Research project of Éric Daudé, affiliated researcher at IRASEC)

Vector-borne diseases (dengue, Zika, chikungunya) are an important public health issue. Understanding their transmission dynamics remains a major challenge at the sub-urban level. Indeed, environmental heterogeneities, variations in vector densities and daily mobility constitute a lock on the definition of epidemic risk indicators at this scale. MO3 therefore aims to (i) develop a simulation model to study the sensitivity of epidemic dynamics to targeted scenarios of anti-vector fights and (ii) evaluate in a large metropolis where dengue is endemic, Bangkok (Thailand), the effectiveness of these strategies.

(Research project of Olivier Telle, IRASEC researcher)

The ONE URBAN HEALTH 2023-2026 project (MITI funding) addresses the impact of global urbanization on the spread of pathogens, often overlooked in analyses. It is recognized that viruses circulate abundantly between cities, and that urbanization accelerates and broadens connections, transforming local environments too, especially the peri-urban bangs.

URBALTOUR analyzes the convergences between urban and tourist logics looking at hill stations created during the colonial period in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Project Coordinator: Emmanuelle PEYVEL

(Research project of Gabriel FACAL, Deputy director and researcher at IRASEC)
In the last decade, civil society organizations (CBOs, NGOs, foundations, think tanks, social enterprises and consulting firms in development research and training) have seen their funding melting (Sciortino 2018). Moreover, several southeast Asian countries have moved up from poor to (higher) middle income countries, so they don’t qualify anymore for certain forms of funding, while inequalities in growth have (...)

(Research project of Loïs BASTIDE, affiliated researcher at IRASEC)

In Southeast Asia, millions of foreign workers from the region (Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia) occupy the lower strata of domestic labour markets in Malaysia, Thailand, or Singapore. This transnational labour system plays a structuring economic role within ASEAN, in destination as much as in labour-exporting countries. These migrations also have a profound social and political impact across the region. The research project seeks to investigate the political dimension of these contemporary mobilities through the empirical case of Indonesian migrant women - Indonesia being one of the main regional labour exporting countries in absolute terms.