(Associate Researcher, November 2019 – present)

Biography:

Arnaud Kaba is a social anthropologist, associate professor at the Pris 8 university. He has been collaborating with the CSH since 2009. As a visiting Masters and then PhD student. Since 2019, his research focuses on the ethnohistory of work, trade and techniques in Firozabad, a north Indian city, specialized in glass production. By tracing the flows of technology, collaborations, and global competition, he explores the links between Firozabad and the rest of the world to understand how the evolution of capitalism transforms trades and societies.

Click here to his online exhibition among the workplaces collective

Publications:

Books 

• Kaba, A., 2026, La main et l’esprit : valeurs du travail chez les ouvriers métallurgistes de Bhopal, Bruxelles, Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles
• Kaba, A., 2011, Les réalités du commerce équitable : l’exemple d’une plantation de Darjeeling, Paris, L’Harmattan.

Peer-reviewed papers 

• Kaba, A., 2026 : Lutter pour sauver son cœur de métier : des mondes ouvriers indiens au service public français, Revue Française d’Ethique Appliquée, N°17, Erès.
• Kaba, Arnaud, Matt Burden, and Joseph Addison (translators). “Global within Local: Skills Circulations and the Value of Know-How among Firozabad’s Glass Workers (North India).” L’Homme 255256.3 (2025): 239-272.
• Kaba, A. 2023. Of glass, skills and life:  Trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers, Third World Quarterly, 44.