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Yann Philippe Tastevin

CNRS and Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal

My research achievements fall under two main themes: low-tech innovation in the Global South and waste recycling in a global economy. My scientific approach is collaborative and interdisciplinary, at the crossroads of human and social sciences, engineering sciences, and environmental sciences. It is also multi-site and comparative, with my fieldwork taking place in France, Egypt, India, and more recently Senegal. From the artisan workshop in Dakar to the industrial kiln in Uttar Pradesh, my investigations aim to characterize the diversity of technical processes, and the heterogeneity of forms in the circulation and transformation of recovered metals. For the first time in Senegal, I have mobilized community-based participatory research methods to document a blind spot in globalized recycling chains: the local effects of urban metal extraction on local residents and their environment.

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