Antoine Bouillon

* 1948 in France

Antoine Bouillon studied from 1966 to 1978 Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Universities of Lille, Strasbourg, Paris-Nanterre and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. From 1968 to 1973, Bouillon taught Philosophy in Paris and Antananarivo, Madagascar, and received his PhD in Sociology in 1978. He was Co-founder (1975), General Secretary (1979-1982), and Chairperson (1984-1991) of the French Anti-Apartheid Movement, and worked as a freelance journalist and editor of several Southern African focussed anti-apartheid publications.... He is Co-founder of OFAS, a ”Platform for Cooperation” between French and South African NGOs (1993-1999). His research interests focus on the ideological invention of the Malagasy, South African history and sociology of sport, music, mass media and public space in the newly independent Zimbabwe (1983-84), urban redevelopment projects and people’s participation in Durban (1993-95), and Francophone African immigrants in Johannesburg (1993-1996). Currently, Bouillon is Director of Research of the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in a research programme on economic development, democracy and governance in the metropolis of Abidjan, Durban and Marseilles. He has worked in that context for three years in Durban on the local and foreign migrants’ insertion strategies in the centre-city, with the objective to question from there citizenship issues in a transforming South Africa. Bouillon has published widely, including ”The Place of the Poor in the Central City. The Relocation of the ‘Ark’ Shelter as a Case Study of Citizenship Issues in a Mutating Durban (South Africa)”, Governance, Urban Dynamics and Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of the Metropolitan Areas of Durban, Abidjan and Marseilles (2002), ”Citizenship and the City. The case of Durban Centre-City in 2000”, Transformation (2002), Immigration Africaine en Afrique du Sud. Les Migrants Francophones des Années 90 (Ed. 1998), New African Immigration to South Africa (1998), Afrique du Sud, Irlande du Nord, Proche-Orient: Désirs de Paix, Relents de Guerre (with S. Dayan-Hertzbrun, and M. Goldring, 1996), ”Au Titre de la Race”, Les Temps Modernes (1992), and Madagascar, le Colonisé et son ‘Âme’ (1982).