Anthropologizing “Too Heavy” an Object : the Anthropology of Citizenship in France
While empirical and theoretical research on citizenship is quite important today in English-speaking literature, and is quickly developing in the French-speaking one, anthropological research led in France offers little literature on the matter. This article aims both to analyze some of the reasons for such a lack in anthropological research in France and to point at ways to overcome it. After underlining the need to take the localization of researchers into account when analyzing academic production, the article explores two central issues : the « national » one, and what Rosaldo describes as « cultural citizenship » on the first hand ; and the issue of territorialization processes and scales of citizenship on the other hand.