Brian AUBRUN

Address

Maison de la Recherche de l'Université Jean Jaurès 5, Allées A. Machado - 31058 TOULOUSE

Email

brian.aubrun@univ-tlse2.fr

Personal Website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-aubrun-8ba2101a6/

Thesis :

Starting with traditional lark hunting and its descriptions (precise, detailed, spatial, technical (in an approach similar to André Leroi Gourhan) and ‘dense’ in the sense used by Geertz), I will attempt to understand how and why these traditional hunts practised by a handful of people have been a unifying force that has mobilised a large and diverse number of people in their defence (but not only that (hypothesis)).

These hunts seem to have crystallised a powerful conflict that exists outside of them in society. Between changes in values and representations, modernity and tradition, societal evolution and media and political debate, these hunts seem to transcend their purely practical nature and encroach on much broader social spheres.

 

My research therefore aims to examine a situation and social tension (which in my case is expressed in traditional lark hunting) that appears to be visibly present (even outside of hunting) in modern society.

Far from focusing solely on hunters, my research aims to be ‘comprehensive’. It will take into account the plurality of actors involved directly or indirectly in these hunts (hunters, anti-hunting activists, nature users, politicians, etc.).

I will also attempt to capture the tensions between European policies and traditional local practices, as well as their consequences. Does European legislative standardisation threaten ‘traditional practices’? Where are we headed?

I also believe (based on my initial fieldwork) that I will be confronted not with a real democratic conflict, but rather with a clash and opposition of representations, worldviews, and ways of understanding the world.

keywords: Lark / Hunting / Knowledge / Know-how, knowing how to listen, knowing how to see / Transmission / Identity / Nature / Culture

TRAINING COURSES

TOULOUSE JEAN JAURÈS UNIVERSITY

• 2019 – 2020 : Master's Degree in Anthropology - Ethnological Expertise in Intangible Cultural Heritage (M2)
  Thesis: On the trail of the grey wolf and the brown bear:
  Production, use of knowledge and differentiated relationships
  Supervised by Laurent Gabail
   
• 2018 – 2019 : Master's Degree in Anthropology (M1)
  Thesis: Monitoring bears in the Pyrenees: Use and production of knowledge.
  Supervised by Laurent Gabail
   
• 2014 – 2017 : Bachelor's Degree in Geography (L1, L2, L3)
   
• 2016 – 2018 : Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology (L2 et L3)
   
• 2017 – 2018 : Bachelor's Degree in Archaeology and Art History (L1)
   

ONDES AGRICULTURAL SECONDARY SCHOOL

• 2013 : Vocational Baccalaureate - Landscaping

EXPERIENCES

LOT-ET-GARONNE HUNTERS' FEDERATION

• DECEMBER 2021 - MAY 2022 : Project manager in socio-anthropology, Lot-et-Garonne Hunters' Federation Research work on traditional hunting, including problem identification, fieldwork, data analysis and participation in the development of a research programme.
   
• APRIL 2020 – November 2021 :
  Civic service in socio-anthropology - Lot-et-Garonne Hunters' Federation
  Work on the characterisation and perceptions of hunting practices and the relationship between humans and animals
   
• 2020 : Tutoring at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University
   
• 2018 – 2020 : Member/Volunteer at Nature Midi-Pyrénées (Nature in Occitanie): mammal group
   
• 2019 : Collective ethnographic fieldwork Organisation of collective seminars
  (Thinking about one's environment in order to think about oneself: Ethnographies in Comminges). "From clue to dissemination: The process of developing information about bears in the Pyrenees".
   
• 2011 – 2015 : Landscaping

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