Setting the scene for two sustainable projects in a French eco-hamlet

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Carlos Fonseca da Silva
Université Côte d‘Azur (UCA)

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Abstract

The aim of this audio-visual project is to present some elements of the ethnographic research I carried out in ‘La Ferme du Collet’, an eco-hamlet in the south of France. My videographic documentation is divided into three film montages, the result of production choices based on the theoretical and methodological orientations in filmic anthropology. The first montage consists of oral testimonies designed to introduce the protagonists. The following montages represent the two main economic activities, namely the production of spirulina (a plant used as a food supplement) and herbal teas. These activities are part of an autonomous, self-sufficient approach to life, linked to a form of activism. They are contesting conventional lifestyles by creating an eco-hamlet, which is carried out by its inhabitants in their day-to-day activities.

Keywords: Eco-hamlet, sustainability, filmic anthropology

Biografia autore

Carlos Fonseca da Silva, Université Côte d‘Azur (UCA)

began his studies in anthropology at the Federal University of Pará, in the Amazon region of Brazil, his home country. After graduating with a Bachelor‘s degree in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Anthropology (2015), he obtained a Master‘s degree in Ethnology in France (2017) at the Université Côte d‘Azur (formerly named Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis). He is currently a PhD candidate in Ethnology at the Université Côte d‘Azur (UCA), within the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits, Cultures et Sociétés (LIRCES – UPR 3159), under the supervision of Silvia Paggi.

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July 2, 2025