Vincent Bonnecase Editor

Vincent Bonnecase is a Historian and Political Scientist, and Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). His work focuses on the social construction of feelings of injustice in Africa from historical and contemporary perspectives. He has published on the political use of livelihood statistic in the Sahel, and on anger over the high cost of living in Burkina Faso and Niger. He is the author of La Pauvreté au Sahel (Kathala, 2011), Les Prix de la Colère (Éditions de l'EHESS, 2019), and La vie Chère (Flammarion, 2023). Julien Brachet is a Geographer and Researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD - Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University). His research investigates economic and political dynamics in the Sahara and the Sahel, and the process of knowledge production in/on Africa. He has been a visiting research fellow at the universities of Niamey, Oxford, N'Djaména, and Princeton. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal Politique Africaine with Vincent Bonnecase (2018-2021), and the author of Migrations Transsahariennes (Le Croquant, 2009) and The Value of Disorder with J. Scheele (Cambridge University Press, 2019).