Xavier Houdoy is Research Scholar at Noria’s South Asia Program (SAProg) and founder of its Cartographic department. A PhD candidate at the French Institute of Political Geography (Paris 8 University), his thesis deals with contemporary state dynamics in India’s North-East region, while his wider research interests question the use of space as a dimension of social and political power competition.
Cyril Roussel, geographer, CNRS researcher. Since 1997, he has been working on the Middle East and the relationship between identity and territory, particularly in a community context, but also on the effects of boundaries and discontinuities and different actors of regional migration in a Middle East in conflict.