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Travailler et vivre sur les chantiers forestiers au Gabon : une anthropologie du travail à l'heure du développement durable : Working and living on logging camps in Gabon : An anthropology of work in the age of sustainable development

by Etienne Bourel

Institution: Université Lumière – Lyon II
Department: Sociologie et anthropologie
Degree: Docteur es
Year: 2022
Keywords: Développement durable; Entreprise; Environnement; Forêt; Foresterie; Gabon; Gouvernance; Gouvernementalité; Jeux d'échelle; Impérialisme; Travail; Sustainable development; Enterprise; Environment; Forest; Forestry; Gabon; Governance; Governmentality; Scal
Posted: 3/25/2025
Record ID: 2224397
Full text PDF: http://www.theses.fr/2022LYO20063


Abstract

Cette thèse propose une analyse des conditions de travail et de vie dans un chantier forestier gabonais et des transformations que connait le secteur de la foresterie à la faveur de la prise en compte du développement durable. Elle procède d'une ethnographie effectuée entre 2011 et 2015 dans la filière-bois d'une entreprise multinationale, dans la région de Makokou (Ogooué-Ivindo) et à Libreville. Au croisement des champs de l'anthropologie politique, du travail et de l'environnement, les différents chapitres présentent un contexte professionnel fruit d'une histoire coloniale et postcoloniale et d'une économie politique singulière. Le monde du travail forestier est décrit au prisme de ses relations hiérarchiques, des problématiques de valeur et de reconnaissance et des considérations environnementales et religieuses qui le traversent. L'enquête menée a également porté sur les enjeux liés à la gouvernance forestière et aux transformations du monde rural afin de mettre en perspective l'idée de durabilité au Gabon. La thèse est composée de deux tomes : le premier est un mémoire et le second est constitué des principales publications commises au cours du parcours doctoral. This thesis analyses the working and living conditions in a Gabonese logging camp and the transformations that the forestry sector is undergoing according to sustainable development. It is based on an ethnography carried out between 2011 and 2015 in the timber branch of a multinational company, in the region of Makokou (Ogooué-Ivindo) and in Libreville. Crossing the fields of political anthropology, anthropology of work and environmental anthropology, the chapters present a professional context resulting from a colonial and post-colonial history and a singular political economy. The forest work world is described through the lens of its hierarchical relationships, issues of value and recognition, and environmental and religious considerations. The investigation also focused on the stakes related to forest governance and the transformation of the rural world in order to put the idea of sustainability in Gabon into perspective. The thesis is divided into two tomes: the first is a dissertation and the second is made up of the main papers published during the doctoral period.

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