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Theme 1. Amazonian areas: dynamics, tensions and development : The aim is to gain a better understanding of the dynamics, tensions and development observed in Amazonian and American spaces more generally by analysing these territories, past and present, as lived geographical, cultural and linguistic spaces. The human and social sciences show the great complexity of the dynamics at work in cross-border regions, by adopting a long diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective. As the Amazon is an eminently disparate territory in every respect, it is legitimate to seek to understand how to create a society in a geographical space in which antagonisms accumulate, to the detriment of a common base that can be identified.

Theme 2. Amazonian tangible and intangible heritage : Culture and heritage play an important spatial, economic, social and symbolic role. They can also be levers of development for Amazonian societies. However, this shared tangible and intangible heritage is being undermined by ever-increasing pressure on land resources, while the extent to which it is being developed suffers from a lack of scientific knowledge on either side of the border (Mam Lam Fouck; Hidair, 2011).

Theme 3. Democracies and Amazonian populations in the 21st century : The regional approach, combined with an interplay of scales, from communities to the international dimension, should help to renew our view of 'the Amazonias'. The aim is to examine how these marginalised areas find their place in the political, legal, social and cultural evolution of states marked by reinvented populist practices, particularly through the activities of evangelical churches. This raises the question of Amazonian genealogies, traditions and cultural, cultic and religious practices. In such a changing context, it is necessary to examine not only the construction and social expression of individual and collective identities, but also how different forms of democracy are developed at different scales.

1. CADEG : Centre d'archivage et de documentation ethnographique de Guyane - Digital platform
2. Sarg As Cld : Environmental impacts of Sargasso leachates due to arsenic and chlordecone; quantification, mitigation and social perception.
3. DEMETER : Deploying an Efficient, Acceptable and Operational Soil Treatment Method to reduce exposure to chlordecone and its degradation products
4. PÉGASE : Pilot centre for teacher training and educational research
5. Youth and socio-cultural activities: Understanding and promoting the emancipation of young people in French Guiana – Research - action

1. HEAU: Man, EAu, Uses and knowledge

7. NIGUY: Norme et interculturalité: quel(s) droit(s) en Guyane? 
8. Eth'mix REMIX: action research in ethnomusicology