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Olivier Ferrando

Associate Professor at UCLy

3. Culture(s), Language and Imagineries

oferrando@univ-catholyon.fr

Campus Lyon - Saint Paul
10 Place des archives 69002 Lyon

Function

  • Associate Professor, Human Rights Institute of Lyon Lyon Catholic University
  • Member of Culture(s), Language, Imaginaries Research Group,UR CONFLUENCE Sciences et Humanités (EA 1598) Lyon Catholic University

Further information

Research areas

Collective Identity Mobilizations Post-Soviet Shrinking Mining Cities Sociology of migrations Russia-Central Asia Central Asian Societies

Teaching areas

International Relations International Project Management European Studies Minorities and Human Rights

Presentation

Olivier Ferrando is a lecturer and researcher in political science at the CONFLUENCE: Sciences et Humanités research unit at Lyon Catholic University.
His work focuses on social transformations in Central Asia, in particular the construction of nation states and ethnic mobilisations, and more recently the impact of the war in Ukraine on human mobility between Central Asia and Russia.
He has managed the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) in Kyrgyzstan from 2013 to 2016.
  • Direction & coordination
    • Management & coordination of conference proceedings
      • AITPAEVA, Gulnara, CHOTAEVA, Cholpon, ESENGUL, Chinara, FERRANDO, Olivier, KOCHUMKULOVA, Elmira (dir.) (2017). Rethinking the 1916 Uprising in Central Asia. Bichkek : American University of Central Asia Press, 180 p.  [+]
    • Management & coordination of a journal issue
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (dir.) (2016). 1989, année de mobilisations politiques en Asie centrale, Cahiers d'Asie centrale, 26, 302 p.  [+]
  • Chapters
    • Book chapters
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). «L’Asie centrale face à l’invasion russe de l’Ukraine : les débordements d’un conflit régional». In : Anne de Tinguy (dir.), Regards sur l'Eurasie. L'année politique 2022. Paris : Les Etudes du CERI, n°266-267, 38-43.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2022). «Domestic & Foreign Policies in the Context of Eurasian Integration». In : David W. Montgomery (dir.), Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 514-518.
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2019). «L’impact de la crise ukrainienne en Asie centrale : quelle évolution depuis 2014 ?». In : Anne de Tinguy (dir.), Regards sur l’Eurasie. L’année politique 2018. Paris : Les Etudes du CERI, n°241-242, 38-43.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2013). «Central Asian States and their Co-Ethnics from Abroad: Diaspora Policies and Repatriation Programs». In : Marlène Laruelle (dir.), Migration and Social Upheaval as the Face of Globalization in Central Asia. Leyde : Ed. Brill, 239-262.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2012). «Soviet Population Transfers and Interethnic Relations in Tajikistan: Assessing the Concept of Ethnicity». In : John Heathershaw & Edmund Herzig (dir.), The Transformation of Tajikistan. Routledge, 35-48.
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2012). «Policies and Practices of Language Education in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Between Ethnic Identity and Civic Consciousness». In : Katriona Kelly, Mark Bassin (dir.), Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities. Cambridge University Press, 254-277.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2011). «Ethnic Minorities and the Media in Central Asia». In : E. Freedman, R. Shaffer (dir.), After the Czars and Commissars: Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia. Michigan State University Press, 161-183.
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2010). «Politiques diasporiques et flux migratoires : les États-nations et leurs minorités co-ethniques de l’étranger». In : M. Laruelle (dir.), Dynamiques migratoires et changements sociétaux en Asie centrale. Paris : Editions Petra, 49-76.
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2009). «Politics of ‘Diasporization’ in Post-Soviet Central Asia». In : Jane Fernandez (dir.), Diasporas: Critical and Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives (ebook). Oxford : Inter-disciplinary press, 41-51.  [+]
    • Chapters in proceedings of colloquiums / conferences / seminars / congresses
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2018). «The Shkolnyi Fond in Non-State Language Schools. A Liberal Practice under State Control». In : Laura Turarbek (dir.), Materials of the Conference “Philosophical and Political Aspects of International Education Projets”. Almaty : Abai State University Press, 65-71.
  • Articles
    • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2020). «Education Language Policies and Practices in Post-Soviet Central Asia. An Historical Analysis of Ethnic Minorities in the Ferghana Valley». Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 19, 1, 32-57.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2016). «L’ethnicisation des mobilisations collectives en Asie centrale depuis 1989». Cahiers d'Asie centrale, 26, 195-223.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2011). «Soviet Population Transfers and Interethnic Relations in Tajikistan: Assessing the Concept of Ethnicity». Central Asian Survey, 30, 1, 39-52.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2011). «Déplacements de population et identités dans la vallée du Ferghana. Les limites du paradigme ethnique». Cahiers d'Asie centrale, 19-20, 177-212.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2008). «Manipulating the Census. Ethnic Minorities in the Nationalizing States of Central Asia». Nationalities Papers, 36, 3, 489-520.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2008). «Education and Ethnic Minorities in Central Asia. A Comparative Analysis». Central Eurasian Studies Review, 7, 1, 8-12.  [+]
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2006). «Du concept de minorité en Asie centrale. L’exemple de la vallée du Ferghana». Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien, 39-40, 73-100.  [+]
    • Book reviews & reviews
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2015). «Madeleine Reeves, Johan Rasanayagam et Judith Beyer, Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia. Performing Politics, Indiana University Press, 2013». Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, 3, 46, 223-224.  [+]
    • Articles in non-peer reviewed journals
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2012). «Strany Tsentral’noy Azii i ih ‘rodstvennye men’shinstva’ v regione: ot diasporal’noy politiki k programmam repatriatsii». Diaspory, 1, 66-94.
      • FERRANDO, Olivier (2010). «Les violences ethniques de juin 2010 au Kirghizstan. L’identité manipulée». Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, 41, 3, 107-136.  [+]
  • Forthcoming
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (forthcoming). «L’incertitude du chercheur face à la rupture d’intelligibilité des relations internationales». Revue CONFLUENCE : Sciences & Humanités.
  • Communications (conferences, seminars, study days)
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). Président de séance "Défis méthodologiques dans les études sur la migration forcée". JE Exil et mobilisation dans les diasporas d'Europe de l'Est, CERI/SciencesPo, December 2023, Paris, France [By invitation].  [+]
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). «Les migrants russes du Kazakhstan depuis 2022. L'appartenance citoyenne en question». Anthropology Webinar, European University, December 2023, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russia [By invitation].
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). «Being Ukrainian in Kazakhstan in 2023. Social Interactions & Representations Between Ukrainian Communities in Wartime». Conférences de l'IFEAC, Institut français d'études sur l'Asie centrale, September 2023, Bichkek, Kirghizistan [By invitation].  [+]
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). «Being a Russian Migrant in Kazakhstan in 2023. A Mobility between Ruptures and Continuities». ESCAS Regional Conference “Power, people and cultural change in an ever-evolving Central Asia”, European Society for Central Asian Studies, September 2023, Almaty, Kazakhstan.  [+]
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). «Gastarbeiter vs. Relokant. Being a Migrant in Eurasia During Wartime». International Conference “Central Asia & the World in the Time of Turbulence: Challenges & Opportunities”, AlmaU, April 2023, Almaty, Kazakhstan.  [+]
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). «Les perceptions et répercussions de la guerre en Asie centrale». Conférence "Le choc de la guerre en Ukraine: l'Eurasie un an après le 24 février", CERI/Sciences Po, February 2023, Paris, France [By invitation].  [+]
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). «Les études centrasiatiques face à la guerre en Ukraine : la nécessaire décolonisation d’un champ d’études postcolonial ?». Journée d'étude Les études sur l'Asie centrale. Dynamiques scientifiques, nouveaux contextes de recherche, GIS Moyen-Orient et Mondes Musulmans, INALCO, February 2023, Paris, France [By invitation].  [+]
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). «L’incertitude du chercheur face à la rupture d’intelligibilité des relations internationales». JE Incertitude(s), UR Confluence Sciences et Humanités, UCLy, February 2023, Lyon, France.  [+]
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2022). «Ethnic minorities political mobilization. A comparative analysis in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan». International Symposium "From the Soviet Komsomol to Independence: How Former Communists Built Civil Society in Former Soviet Republics", Södertörn University, June 2022, Stockholm, Sweden [By invitation].
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2022). «Une analyse des représentations véhiculées par le discours dans la guerre en Ukraine». JE interne de l'UR Confluence Sciences et Humanités, UCLy, June 2022, Lyon, France.
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2022). «Aïdarken, ville-usine de la périphérie postsoviétique. Une étude de cas des processus de déclin urbain». JE Espace urbain, marges, marginalités, UR Confluence Sciences et Humanités (pôle 3), UCLy, May 2022, Lyon, France [By invitation].
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2021). «Approche sociologique des relations interethniques le long de la frontière tadjiko-kirghize». Table-Ronde Tensions frontalières en Asie centrale: analyse des relations entre le Kirghizstan et le Tadjikistan, Institut français d'études sur l'Asie centrale, May 2021, Bichkek, Kirghizistan [By invitation].
  • Technical expertise reports & products from standardization bodies
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2024). Islam, politique et société en Ouzbékistan. Enquête sur le renouveau religieux de la jeunesse ouzbèke, Russie/Eurasie Report n°45. Paris : Institut français des relations internationales, 48 p.  [+]
  • Popularization & dissemination of research
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2023). «L’influence russe en Asie centrale au prisme de la guerre en Ukraine». AOC, 2 mars.
    • (2022) «En Asie centrale, la puissance tutélaire de Moscou perd en influence». Les enjeux internationaux, October 2022, France Culture, Paris, France.
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2022). «Kirghizstan et Tadjikistan : les effets funestes de la militarisation des frontières». The Conversation.
    • (2022) «Guerre en Ukraine : "L’appui tacite des Etats d’Asie centrale à la Russie est un revers pour les droits humains"». June 2022, Le Monde.
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2010). «Violences au Kirghizstan : ce que cache le discours ethnique». Hommes & Libertés, 151, 32-34.
    • (2010) «Violences au Kirghizstan: l'ethnicité a bon dos!», Tribune. June 2010, Le Monde, France.
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2010). «Nationalités, minorités ou diasporas. L’identité mouvante des peuples autochtones d’Asie centrale». Etudes interculturelles, 3, 193-215.
    • FERRANDO, Olivier (2009). «Minorités ethniques d’Asie centrale. Le destin croisé des Ouzbeks de la vallée du Ferghana». Etudes interculturelles, 2, 33-45.
  • Coordination of scientific events
    • International Conference "Natural Borders: A Notion to Be Deconstructed. Strategies, Issues, Perceptions, Languages, Imaginaries", CONFLUENCE : Sciences et Humanités - EA 1598, France
    • Co-Direction of the Research Seminar "Beyond Post-Sovietism: Societies and territories on the move", Centre for International Studies - UMR 7050 , France, 2023
    • International Conference "Rethinking 1916 Uprising in Central Asia", French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) - USR 3140, Kirghizistan, 2016
    • International Conference "Education & Cultural Diversity in Central Asia", French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) - USR 3140, Kirghizistan, 2016
    • International Conference "Migrations & Healthcare in Central Asia", French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) - USR 3140, Tajikistan, 2015
    • International Conference "Water Management in Central Asia. International & Local Perspectives, French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) - USR 3140, Kirghizistan, 2015
    • International Conference "Welfare State and Collective Action in Central Asia, French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) - USR 3140, Kazakhstan, 2015
    • International Symposium "Social Mobilisations and Geopolitics in Central Asia", Centre for International Studies - UMR 7050 , France, 2014
    • International Conference "1989, Also a Key Year in Central Asia?", French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) - USR 3140, Kirghizistan, 2014
    • Co-Animation of the Seminar "L'Asie centrale dans tous ses Etats", Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
    • ASN Regional Convention "Empires & Nations, SciencesPo Paris, France, 2008
  • Scientific collaborations
    • Participation in other research projects
      • 2011 - 2013, ANR Research Project "Le Caucase et l'Asie Centrale Postsoviétique. Un AUtre Sud?", Agence Nationale pour la Recherche - ANR, France
      • 2007 - 2009, Associate Researcher of the Project "Oral History in Tajikistan", OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kirghizistan
    • Responsibilities in learned societies
      • Since 2023, Bord Member of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), Netherlands
      • 2018 - 2020, Member of the Pluridisciplinary Initiative on Central Asia (IPAC), UMR 7528 Monde iranien et indien, France
      • 2010 - 2017, Member of the Research Group on Central Asia (GRAC), Centre for International Studies - UMR 7050 , France
      • 2008 - 2014, Member of the Program Committee of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Association for the Study of Nationalities, United States of America
    • Associate member of research networks / laboratories
      • 2013 - 2016, Regional Director, French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) - USR 3140, Kirghizistan
      • 2013 - 2017, Associate Researcher at CERI/Sciences Po, Centre for International Studies - UMR 7050 , France
  • Editorial activities
    • Collections / series / journals management
      • 2013 - 2016, Director of Publication and Chief Editor, Cahiers d'Asie centrale, French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) - USR 3140, Kirghizistan
  • Member of thesis jury / HDR
    • Thesis jury member : M. SADOZAI, La frontière comme ressource : contacts, ruptures et pouvoirs à la frontière entre le Tadjikistan et l’Afghanistan dans le Haut-Badakhchan, PhD thesis, National Institute of Oriental Languages & Civilisations, Paris, 2022
  • Academic background
    • 2011 PhD in Political Science, La question minoritaire en Asie centrale post-soviétique: reconfiguration ethnique dans la vallée du Ferghana (1989-2008), SciencesPo Paris, France
    • 2005 Master Degree in International Human Rights Law, Lyon Catholic University, France
    • 1994 Engineering Degree in Agricultural Sciences, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), France
  • Educational responsibilities and professional experiences
    • 2021 - 2022 Administrator , Human Rights Institute of Lyon, Lyon Catholic University, France
    • Since 2020 Associate Professor, Human Rights Institute of Lyon, Lyon Catholic University, France
    • Since 2016 Member of the UNESCO Chair "Memory, Cultures & Interculturality", Lyon Catholic University, France
    • 2005 - 2013 Training Officer, Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED), France
    • 2002 - 2004 Desk Manager, Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa, Handicap International , France
    • 1999 - 2001 Regional Coordinator, Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED), Tajikistan
    • 1998 TACIS Programme Officer in Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan, European Commission, Kazakhstan
    • 1997 Project Officer, Mladi Most Youth Reconciliation Project, Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (ASF), Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • 1996 - 1997 PHARE Programme Officer in Slovenia, European Commission, Slovenia
    • 1994 - 1996 Attaché for Academic & Scientific Cooperation, Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires Etrangères, Slovenia
  • Teachings
    • Since 2023 Migrations & Human Rights (15h), Lyon Catholic University, France
    • Since 2023 Research Methodology (8h), Lyon Catholic University, France
    • Since 2023 State-Building and War-Making in Comparative Perspective (distant class), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Ukraine
    • Since 2022 Project cycle management (24h), Lyon Catholic University, France
    • Since 2020 Conflict Resolution (18h), Lyon Catholic University, France
    • Since 2020 Strategic Issues in Eurasia (21h), Université Paris 13, France
    • 2019 - 2021 Areal Approach of IR: Caucasus & Central Asia (20h), National Institute of Oriental Languages & Civilisations, France
    • 2018 - 2021 Development Project Management (30h), Université Paris Nanterre - Paris 10, France
    • 2018 - 2021 EU International Policies (24h), Université Paris 13, France
    • 2018 - 2021 EU Public Territorial Policies (21h), Université Paris 13, France
    • 2018 - 2021 Vocational Integration (12h), Université Paris Nanterre - Paris 10, France
    • 2018 - 2021 European Integration & Institutions (30h), Université Paris 13, France
    • Since 2018 Religions & Human Rights (18h), Lyon Catholic University, France
    • 2017 - 2020 Cultural Diversity & Development (24h), Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris 1, France
    • 2017 - 2020 Vocational integration (12h), Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris 1, France
    • Since 2016 International Law & Cultural Diversity (12h), Lyon Catholic University, France
    • 2015 - 2019 Political Systems (30h), Institute Sorbonne-Kazakhstan (ISK), Kazakhstan
    • 2012 - 2013 Water Challenges in the Middle East (12h), Sciences Po Grenoble, France
    • 2011 - 2013 International Project Management (30h), Lille Political Studies Institute, France
    • 2011 - 2013 Introduction to Geopolitics & International Relations (24h), Rouen Business School, France
    • Since 2010 Human Rights of Minorities & Indigenous Peoples (18h), Lyon Catholic University, France
    • Since 2008 Security Issues in Eurasia (24h), SciencesPo Paris, France
    • 2007 - 2013 Geopolitics of Central Asia & the Caucasus (24h), Lille Political Studies Institute, France
    • 2007 - 2011 IR Theory & World Politics (20h), Lille Political Studies Institute, France
  • Languages
    • French - Able to teach
    • English - Able to teach
    • Russian - Able to teach
    • Spanish - Able to teach