Dr. Agathe Faure

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Agathe Faure is currently a Fellow at the London School of Economics, where her research focuses on the changing migration patterns of Latin American Indigenous groups. Her primary interest lies in examining the recent multicultural policies that inflect patterns impacting Indigenous egalitarian practices, gender relations, and emotional experiences. Agathe's doctoral thesis involved twenty months of fieldwork in Colombia, studying Emberá Dobidá women who migrated from Indigenous territories in Chocó to the slums of Medellín. This research aimed to understand how these women navigate their growing desires for social mobility while maintaining their long-standing roles in preserving Emberá egalitarianism in their home territories. Her thesis, which analyzed the gestures and efforts of Emberá women to sustain and develop urban/rural kin networks, illustrated the significant impact of social conflict and spiritual attacks on rising suicide rates among these communities. Agathe's findings will contribute to key anthropological debates on egalitarianism and migration, emphasizing the need to understand the changing gendered class relations within egalitarian groups and the everyday realities of Indigenous urbanization. In addition to her research, she has taught a variety of core and specialist courses in anthropological theory and economic anthropology at LSE, and has served as a research supervisor and study adviser. She holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and an MRes in Anthropology from University College London, supplemented by her BSc from Sciences Po Paris.

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