Election statement: Nathalie Ortar is a research fellow in anthropology since 2004 who works in Lyon (France) for a ENTPE/University of Lyon/CNRS laboratory specialized in urban studies and mobility (LAET). She has been invited scholar at the University of San Jose (USA) in 2010-2011. Her research has mostly focused on kinship, material cultures and everyday life in France, Russia and the United-States. Her habilitation defended in 2016 was on dwelling in a world marked by the social, symbolic and economic importance of movement. Since 2010, she has also been developing research on discards studies – she co-organizes a research seminar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) on second hand -, as well as on energy. She is part of several research network at a national and international level and member of the editorial staff of a new anthropological magazine Lectures Anthropologiques.
Nominating member: Simone Abram (University of Durham). Supporting member: Françoise Lafaye (ENTPE- France).