Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo

Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo is a sociologist from Burkina Faso. He is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Professor of Sociology at EHESS in Paris, France. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Contemporary Anthropology (LAIOS-IIAC, EHESS/CNRS) and former Deputy Executive Secretary of CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa). He is the author of several articles and books in the field of arts Kalidou Kassé, peintures: Expériences de la forme (2014), Identité visuelle en Afrique (2008), Arts photographiques en Afrique (2002). He also edited Norbert Elias, Ecrits sur l'art africain (2002). Other books are (with Carlos Cardoso) Readings in Methodology. African Perspectives (2011), Colonialism and Violence: Formation de la classe ouvrière en Afrique noire (1989), Violences et communautés en Afrique noire (1997). He edited (with Mamadou Diawara Elisio Macamo) in 2018, Translation: Disputing the Sense of African Social Realities; 2019 (with Katrin Langewiesche) L'enquête et ses graphies en sciences sociales. Figurations iconographiques d'après société. Forthcoming books are (with Mamadou Diawara, Mamadou Diouf) Africa N'Ko: Africa in the World. Debating the African Colonial Library and (with Armelle Lefebvre) Invention des formes à l’ère de la globalisation. He is founder and editor of the journal Method(e): African Review of Social Science Methodology, published by ibidem-Verlag.