About
Thomas Riot is an ethno-historian, contract lecturer at the University of Strasbourg and member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Cultural Studies (LinCS, UMR 7069). He combines sociology, history and anthropology to develop work on the relationship between the body, culture and power (in Africa and France).
Latest publication
Women in niqab and young, marginalised youth in the context of local sporting policies: a look at alternative social relations
- By Thomas Riot
In Agora débats/jeunesses (2025/1 No 99)
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Itorero Policies in Rwanda
An Educational Program Inspired by the Warrior Tradition Put to the Test of National Reconstruction
In Revue Tiers Monde (2016/4 No 228)
Women in niqab and young, marginalised youth in the context of local sporting policies: a look at alternative social relations
- By Thomas Riot
In Agora débats/jeunesses (2025/1 No 99)
Genocide or “Tribal Warfare”: Controversy over Memories of the Rwandan Genocide
- By Nicolas Bancel
- and Thomas Riot
In Hermès, La Revue (2008/3 No 52)
Behind sports and ludo-motor practices. Subjectivation and mobilization through the body in sub-Saharan Africa
- By Thomas Riot
- and Nicolas Bancel
In Politique africaine (2017/3 No 147)
Warlike art at the borders of the Great Lakes. Expressing one’s roots though dance within the Rwandan Patriotic Front
- By Thomas Riot,
- Nicolas Bancel
- and Paul Rutayisire
In Politique africaine (2017/3 No 147)
“Leisure” Policies and the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide
From cultural racism to the donjons of memory (1957-2013)
- By Thomas Riot
In Politique africaine (2014/1 No 133)
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Articles
Women in niqab and young, marginalised youth in the context of local sporting policies: a look at alternative social relations
In Agora débats/jeunesses (2025/1 No 99)
When Omar Victor Diop Auto-Incarnates the Visual Figures of Diaspora
From the Image to the Social and Political Imaginary of a Hybrid Body
In Journal des anthropologues (2022/1 n° 168-169)
From the Ascent to the Fall of the Senegalese Wrestler “Tyson”: Visual Itinerary of an Overthrown Hero (1995‑2006)
- By Omar Dieng
- and Thomas Riot
In Journal des anthropologues (2020/2 n° 160-161)
Introduction to the topic
Behind sports and ludo-motor practices. Subjectivation and mobilization through the body in sub-Saharan Africa
- By Thomas Riot
- and Nicolas Bancel
In Politique africaine (2017/3 No 147)
Warlike art at the borders of the Great Lakes. Expressing one’s roots though dance within the Rwandan Patriotic Front
- By Thomas Riot,
- Nicolas Bancel
- and Paul Rutayisire
In Politique africaine (2017/3 No 147)
Itorero Policies in Rwanda
An Educational Program Inspired by the Warrior Tradition Put to the Test of National Reconstruction
In Revue Tiers Monde (2016/4 No 228)
“Dance of Death”: Cultural Technology of Tutsi Slaughter in Rwanda
In Cultures & Conflits (2016/3 No 103-104)
“Leisure” Policies and the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide
From cultural racism to the donjons of memory (1957-2013)
In Politique africaine (2014/1 No 133)
Genocide or “Tribal Warfare”: Controversy over Memories of the Rwandan Genocide
- By Nicolas Bancel
- and Thomas Riot
In Hermès, La Revue (2008/3 No 52)