Laëtitia Atlani-Duault

Biography

Laëtitia Atlani-Duault is a French social anthropologist. She is Research Professor at CEPED (IRD / Paris V University), and Scientific Director of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) in Paris. She is a recipient of the CNRS medal for research excellence, awarded by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Her work focuses on critical analysis of the politics and practices of humanitarian aid on both the local and international levels. She also publishes on diverse subjects such as the governance of the United Nations, organized sexual violence and humanitarian assistance, the exportation of democracy in the former Second World, social media in times of epidemics, and the relationship between social scientists and the law. She is currently conducting a large study on sexual abuse in ecclesiastic settings, in her capacity as a scientific member of France’s Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse within the Catholic Church.

Her publications include Au bonheur des autres: Anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire (2005 Editions de la Société d’Ethnologie; updated edition Armand Colin), Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries. An Anthropological Perspective (Routledge) and Anthropologie de l’aide humanitaire et du développement: Des pratiques aux savoirs, des savoirs aux pratiques, with L. Vidal (Armand Colin).  She has edited or co-edited numerous special issues such as Les ONG à l’heure de la ‘bonne gouvernance’ (Autrepart, Armand Colin); Anthropologue et ONG, des liaisons fructueuses ? (Humanitaire) ; Éclats d’empire, un nouveau Sud ? (Tiers Monde, Armand Colin); Ethnographies de l’aide (Ethnologie française, Presses Universitaires de France); and "Chercheurs à la barre", with S. Dufoix, (Socio, Éditions Maison des sciences de l’homme). Her articles have appeared in English and French in journals such as The Lancet, Social Science and Medicine; The Lancet Infectious Diseases; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Transcultural Psychiatry; Medical Anthropology; Public Understanding of Science; and Ethnologie Française.

After posts at Lyon II University (2003-2007) and Paris Nanterre University (2008-2011), she became an IRD Research Professor in 2011. She then served as Senior Advisor for Humanitarian Affairs at the UN headquarters (2012-2015). While in New York, she was Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and also France’s National IRD Scientific Representative to the United Nations (2015-2017). In 2018, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) announced her appointment as the Director of the Collège d’études mondiales, Paris. In 2019, Laëtitia Atlani-Duault became the Scientific Director of the FMSH, supervising both its Research Department and the Collège d’études mondiales.

Select publications

Atlani-Duault L., Ward J., Roy M., Morin C., Wilson A., 2020, Tracking online heroisation and blame in epidemics, The Lancet, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30033-5

Moreau, N., Roy, M., Wilson, A., & Atlani Duault, L., 2020, “Life is more important than football”: Comparative analysis of Tweets and Facebook comments regarding the cancellation of the 2015 African Cup of Nations in Morocco. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, pp. 1-24, DOI: 10.1177/1012690219899610

Roy M., Moreau N., Rousseau C., Mercier A., Wilson A., Atlani-Duault L., 2019, Ebola and Localized Blame on Social Media: Analysis of Twitter and Facebook Conversations during the 2014–2015 Ebola Epidemic, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry,  June 2019, pp. 1-24, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-019-09635-8

Morin C., Mercier A., Atlani-Duault L., 2019, Text–Image Relationships in Tweets: Shaping the Meanings of an Epidemic, Societies 9, 12; doi:10.3390/soc9010012.

Morin C, Bost I, Mercier A, Dozon J, Atlani-Duault L., 2018, Information Circulation in times of Ebola: Twitter and the Sexual Transmission of Ebola by Survivors. PLOS Currents Outbreaks. 2018 Aug 28 . Edition 1. doi: 10.1371.

Frasca T., Fauré Y., Atlani-Duault L., 2018, Decentralisation of Brazil ’s HIV/AIDS programme: intended and unintended consequences, Global Public Health, Volume 13, 2018 - Issue 12, pp. 1725-1736 | https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2018.1455888.

Atlani-Duault L, Brown L., Fried L., 2018, The elderly: an invisible population in humanitarian aid, The Lancet, Vol. 3, N^o 1, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30232-3.

Martins T, Kerr L, Macena R, Mota R, Dourado I, Brito AM, Atlani-Duault and al., 2018, Incentives and barriers to HIV testing among female sex workers in Ceará, Revista de Saude Publica, 52:64.

Atlani-Duault L., 2017, Un pionnier du troisième sexe social: B. Saladin d’Englure, Socio, 9, pp.37-74.

Atlani-Duault L. & Delattre F., 2016, Is Aleppo the Grave of the United Nations?, The Lancet, vol. 388, No10059, p.2473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(16)32122-5

Atlani-Duault L., Dozon J.P., Wilson A., Delfraissy J.F, Moatti. JP., 2016, State Humanitarian Verticalism versus Universal Health Coverage. One Hundred Years of French International Health Assistance Revisited, The Lancet, Vol 387, pp 2250-62.

Gonçalves V.F, Kerr L., Mota R.S., Macena R.H.M., Freire D.G., Brito A.M., Dourado I., Atlani-Duault, L., Vidal L. & Kendall C., 2016, Incentives and barriers to HIV testing in men who have sex with men in a metropolitan area in Brazil. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 32(5), e00049015.

Atlani-Duault L. et al., 2015, Blood Libel Rebooted: Traditional Scapegoats, Online Media, and the H1N1 Epidemic, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Vol. 39, pp. 43-61.

Atlani-Duault L. (co-ed), 2015, Human Rights Cases Online, Alexandria: Alexander Street Press.

Rousseau, C., Moreau N., Dumas MP., Bost I., Lefebvre S., Atlani-Duault L., 2015, Public Media Communications about H1N1, Risk Perceptions and Immunization Behaviours : A Quebec-France Comparison, Public Understanding of Science, vol.24, no2, pp.225-240.

Atlani-Duault L., 2015, Per il bene degli altri. Antropologia dell'aiuto umanitario, Napoli : Liguori.

Atlani-Duault L. & Dufoix S. (ed)., 2014, Chercheurs à la barre, Socio, Vol.3, 338p.

Atlani-Duault L. & Dufoix S., 2014, Les sciences sociales saisies par la justice, Socio, Vol.3, pp.9-49.

Atlani-Duault L. et al., 2013, Behavioural Research in Epidemics, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Vol. 13, pp. 367-368.

Atlani-Duault L. & Vidal L. (ed), 2013, La santé globale; laboratoire de l’aide internationale ? (Global Health: A New Laboratory for International Aid?), Armand Colin - Tiers Monde, Vol. 3, n°215, 164p.

Atlani-Duault L., 2013, Comment: “A Small World”: Ethnography of a Natural Disaster Simulation in Lima, Peru, Social Anthropology, Vol. 21, Issue 1, pp. 54–56.

Atlani-Duault L. (ed), 2011, Ethnographies de l’aide (Ethnographies of Aid), special issue, PUF-Ethnologie française, Vol. 41, 148 p.

Atlani-Duault L. & Dozon J.P., 2011, Colonization, Development, Humanitarian Aid. Towards an Anthropology of International Aid, PUF- Ethnologie française, Vol. 41, pp. 393-403.

Atlani-Duault L. & Kendall C., 2009, Influenza, Anthropology, and Global Uncertainties, Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 1545-5882, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 207-211.

Atlani-Duault L., 2009, Au bonheur des autres. Anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire (réédition), Paris : Armand Colin, 236p.

Atlani-Duault L. & L. Vidal (eds), 2009, Anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire et du développement (Anthropology of Humanitarian and Development Aid). Paris: Armand Colin, 360p.

Atlani-Duault L., 2009, Anthropologie de l’aide humanitaire et du développement. Histoire, enjeux contemporains et perspectives, in L. Atlani-Duault and L. Vidal (eds), Anthropologie de l’aide humanitaire et du développement. Paris, Armand Colin, p. 17-40.

Atlani-Duault L., 2009, Psychanalyse et anthropologie aujourd’hui : une question de genre. Entretien avec Richard Rechtman, Journal des Anthropologues, Vol. 116-117, pp.212-130.

Atlani-Duault L., 2008, Homosexual Repression and AIDS in Post-Soviet Central Asia, In C. Pope and R. White (eds), HIV/AIDS: Stories of a Global Epidemic, London and New York.  

Atlani-Duault L. (ed.), 2008, Eclats d'empire, un nouveau sud? Asie centrale  et Transcaucasie (Shattered Empires, a New South? Central Asia and Transcaucasia), Armand Colin - Tiers Monde, Vol. 193, 231p.

Atlani-Duault L. & Lautier B., 2008, Quand le Second Monde bascule au Sud, Tiers-Monde, 198, pp.4-12.

Atlani-Duault L. (ed.), 2007, Anthropologues et ONG: des liaisons fructueuses? (Anthropologists and NGOs: Promising Relations?), special issue, Humanitaire, n°4, 80 p.

Atlani-Duault L., 2007, Introduction : Anthropologues et ONG : des liaisons fructueuses ? Humanitaire, Vol. 4, pp. 2-9.

Atlani-Duault L., 2007, Revolutions clothed in the colors of spring. Exporting democracy to the East, In M. Feher (ed.), Non-Governmental Politics, New York: Zone Books, pp. 586-592.

Atlani-Duault L., 2007, Sur les cendres des révolutions de couleur. Drogues et démocratisation en Asie Centrale, Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, 38(1), pp. 29-44.

Atlani-Duault L., 2007, Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries. An Anthropological Perspective. London, New York: Routledge, 160p.

Atlani-Duault L., 2007, Goluboi ou la difficulté d’être ‘bleu’. Homosexualité et aide internationale en Asie centrale, Anthropologie et Sociétés, 30(2), pp. 91-111

Atlani-Duault L., 2007, Pentru Binele Celorlalti : Antropologia Ajutorului Umanitar. Bucharest: Ed. Olimp, 191p.

Atlani-Duault L. (ed.), 2005, Les ONG à l'heure de la "bonne gouvernance" (Anthropologists and NGOs: Promising Relations?), Armand Colin - Autrepart, Vol. 35, 183 p.

Atlani-Duault L., 2005, Au bonheur des autres. Anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire. Nanterre : Société d'Ethnologie, 200p.

Bouville J.F., Atlani-Duault L., Heidenreich F. & Moro M.R., 2005, Se protéger en exil. L’‘attachement’ chez les enfants de familles en demande d’asile, L’autre, Vol. 6 (3), pp.385-398.

Atlani-Duault L., 2003, La ‘bonne gouvernance’, nouvelle éthique du développement ? (“Good governance”: a new development ethic?), special issue, Armand Colin-Autrepart, 28: 165-179.

Atlani-Duault L., 2005, Les ONG à l’heure de la bonne gouvernance, Autrepart, Vol. 35, pp. 3-18.

Heidenreich F., Bouville J.F. Atlani L. & Moro M.R., 2002, Processus d’inscription dans la société d’accueil des familles en attente d’un statut de réfugié et de leurs enfants, L’autre, 4(3), pp. 471-4.

Atlani L., 2002, Europe de l’Est: Aujourd'hui les usagers de drogues, et demain ? Trancriptase, 100, pp.10-14.

Atlani L. et al., 2000, Social Change and HIV/AIDS in the Former Soviet Union : The Making of an Epidemic, Social Science and Medicine, 50:1547-1556.

Atlani L. & Rousseau C., 2000, The Politics of Culture in Humanitarian Aid to Refugees Having Experienced Sexual Violence, Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol.37 (3):435-449.

Atlani L., 1998, Le sida se lève à l'Est, Transcriptase, n°64 :20-24.

Atlani L., 1997, Assistance aux victimes de violences sexuelles dans les camps de réfugiés. Lecture ethnologique des recommandations des agences internationales en matière de soutien psycho-social, Psychopathologie Africaine, 1997, Vol. 28,1, pp.25-53.