This project has lead to various publications, including my second monograph, Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea (Cambridge University Press, 2019), as well as various articles and book chapters that explore how international law and anthropology have shaped how global governance has operated in the long twentieth century. It builds on the work of historians of ideas who have called on scholars to “provincialize Europe” or moved to a “global  history,” thereby paying attention to the interactions between the global context and regional and/or imperial processes, in contrast to conventional accounts of academic disciplines that focus on national legacies, intellectual or otherwise.

This project has lead to various publications, including my second monograph, Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea (Cambridge University Press, 2019), as well as various articles and book chapters that explore how international law and anthropology have shaped how global governance has operated in the long twentieth century. The latest output, supported by the Fond National Suisse, is a special issue of Durkheimian Studies, which proposes a global intellectual history of what we may call the “sciences of the international” in the twentieth century.

Publications

1.

 Decolonizing Durkheimian Conceptions of the International: Colonialism and Inter-Nationalism in the Durkheimian School During and After the Colonial Era.

Grégoire Mallard and Jean Terrier. 2021
Durkheimian Studies. 25(1): 3-30

1 Dec 2021

2.

 Decolonization: the Many Facets of an Ongoing Struggle.

Grégoire Mallard, Dominic Eggel and Marc Galvin. 2021
Global Challenges Introduction to the issue 10.

1 Dec 2021

3.

 The Eclipse of Global Legal Pluralism in Ethnology: A French Trajectory

Grégoire Mallard. 2020
Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism, edited by Paul Schiff Berman. Oxford University Press

1 Dec 2020

4.

 "From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences” by Arpad Szakolczai and Bjørn Thomassen

Grégoire Mallard. 2020
Contemporary Sociology. 49(5): 468-9

1 Dec 2020

5.

 Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea

Grégoire Mallard. 2019. Cambridge University Press.
Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources of international solidarity and international law. A century after Mauss, we may ask: what is the relevance of his ideas on gift exchanges and international solidarity? By tracing how Mauss's theoretical and normative ideas inspired prominent thinkers and government officials in France and Algeria, from Pierre Bourdieu to Mohammed Bedjaoui, Grégoire Mallard adds a building block to our comprehension of the role that anthropology, international law, and economics have played in shaping international economic governance from the age of European colonization to the latest European debt crisis. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

1 Dec 2019

6.

 Gift Exchange: An Interview for the New Books Network

Grégoire Mallard. October 2019.
Interview by Ryan Tripp

1 Oct 2019

7.

 The Gift as Colonial Ideology: Marcel Mauss and the “Solidarist” Colonial Policy in the Interwar Period

Grégoire Mallard. 2018
Journal of International Political Theory. 14(2): 183-202

1 Dec 2018

8.

 The Gift Revisited: Marcel Mauss on War, Debt and the Politics of Reparations

Grégoire Mallard. 2011
Sociological Theory. 29(4): 225-247

1 Dec 2011