This project was initially based on the research seminar entitled ‘Contemporary research in anthropology: circulations in question(s)’ (seminar ‘labelled’ GRIP). In connection with the pandemic situation, we first extended this seminar to our Haitian and Madagascan partners (included in the training programme of the State University in Haiti and the University of Ankatso in Antananarivo). In a second phase, we extended our questioning of cultural circulations (people, practices, knowledge) to the point of making it our scientific practice by organising travelling study days, extending our monthly seminar. In a “hybrid” format for the time being, we travel from Paris to Port-au-Prince and Antananarivo. By anchoring ourselves in these three spaces, simultaneously through technology and alternately through real annual meetings, we intend to build comparisons on the tension between the global, the national and the hyper-local (each context illuminating the other). What are the forces, the stakes and the contradictions of a non-global globality (differently shared)? How can we think about the new ‘remote proximity’ to which we are forced? It is a question of experimenting and questioning new tools for working and sharing at the same time as rethinking a distance within which the North/South articulation is being recomposed.
