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Jean-Baptiste Meyer
Jean-Baptiste Meyer is senior researcher at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) and professor in various universities in Europe and Africa. He has run research and higher education programmes with the National University of Colombia, the University of Cape Town, the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Buenos Aires and in North Africa and Soudan more recently. His works include El nuevo nomadismo cientifico: La perspectiva latinoamericana (ESAP, 1998), Scientific Diasporas (IRD editions, 2003), La société des savoirs: Trompe l’oeil ou perspectives (Harmattan, 2006), A Sociology of Diaspora Knowledge Networks (2011) and Diaspora: Towards the New Frontier (2015). Publications and audio-visual media materials about his past and current works may be downloaded through HAL Open Archives, Research Gate and Linkedin.