Jean-Philippe BelleauUniversity of Massachusetts Boston | UMB · Department of Anthropology
Jean-Philippe Belleau
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Introduction
I am an associate professor of anthropology at UMASS-Boston. I obtained my doctoral degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 2007, my Postdoc from Harvard University in 2010, and my undergraduate degree in social sciences from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Aix-en-Provence. I have carried out field research in the northern Amazon region of Brazil, lowland Bolivia, Haiti, Assam and West Bengal (India), and Southwestern France.
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One of the most disturbing phenomena during episodes of mass violence concerns individuals who hated a specific group and harmed some of its members while making exceptions for people they had a relationship with. A preexisting social tie, not moral consciousness, produces this aversion to harming a party to the relationship, even if rescuing vulne...
Can people really kill their neighbours – massively and out of hatred? Is it anthropologically possible? Massacres and genocides of neighbours have become a subcategory of mass violence studies over the past two decades. This scholarship implicitly refutes entire parts of anthropology, notably the Durkheimian tradition, for which society is organiz...
The historiography on the François Duvalier regime in Haiti (1957–1971) tends to focus on Duvalier's wanton use of violence and generally overlooks questions of governance, stressing or inferring that Duvalier was a solitary despot. This article is resolutely revisionist and argues that Duvalier (1) did not govern alone; (2) relied primarily on an...
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François Duvalier (1907‐1971) gobernó Haití de 1957 hasta su muerte en 1971. Su régimen ha sido descrito como uno de los más brutales en la historia de esta nación. Duvalier también era conocido y hoy se lo recuerda como alguien de origen extranjero que creció sin consanguíneos, salvo a su padre y su abuelo, ni afines. Duvalier no tenía her...
This report is the first by an organization that specializes in indigenous rights. It provides verbatim the accounts of Rohingya refugees interviewed in March of 2018. 1. The 2017 crisis should not be isolated, but placed in the context of a long-lasting series of conflicts that have been occurring since the 40s. 2. From the 25th of August 2017, th...
Du 5 au 15 mars 2018, Jean-Philippe Belleau, membre du réseau des experts du GITPA a réalisé une mission d'information dans les camps de réfugiés Rohingyas au Bengladesh. Cette mission pour le GITPA a pu être menée grâce à l'ONG Health and Education for All (HAEFA)-Haefa.org et au College of Liberal Arts de l'Université du Massachusetts à Boston. C...
En 1858 el francés Antoine de Tounens (1825-1878) desembarca en Coquimbo, al sur de Santiago, y se dirige hacia la Patagonia. En menos de dos años logra concretar alianzas con los caciques Puelches y Tehuelches y, en noviembre de 1860, promulga en Perquenco la Constitución del Reino de Araucanía y de la Patagonia. En la actualidad, la Corte del Rei...
La notion de choc des civilisations de Samuel Huntington, si populaire sur les plateaux de télévision, du moins aux Etats-Unis, semble généralement rejetée par les sciences humaines et sociales comme un tissu de préjugés et d' erreurs épistémologiques. Ces sciences, curieusement, ne semblent pas proposer de véritables alternatives; lorsqu' elles fo...
