The University of Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès (UT2J) combines a tradition of academic excellence
with one of the most active campus in France. Its offers degrees in a broad variety of disciplines
in Humanities and Social Sciences, from undergraduate level to doctorate. UT2J is located in the
South-West of France, in Toulouse. With 100,000 students, the city of Toulouse is the 2 nd college town in France after Paris. The University of Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès welcomes 29,000 students and 4,000 international students. Its has over 100 cooperation agreements with 44 foreign countries, and over 200 cooperation agreements within Europe via the Erasmus exchange
program. Its has 3 campuses abroad in Spain, Malaysia and Vietnam.
The University of Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès (UT2J) has a tradition of Latin America studies with
the IPEAT (Pluridisciplary Institute of studies of the America of Toulouse) that federate
academic activities specialized and the studies of development of American societies.
The research team of Dynamiques Rurales is part of the CNRS Team LISST. It is a
multidisciplinary research team gathering full-time researchers, professors and associate
professors involved in 4 disciplines : geography, sociology, economics and management. Its
research focus on rural studies and its renewal.
In a context where rural areas are challenged in many ways (by globalization, solidarity and transmission between generations, production and food security, climate change, management of resources, governance, institutional change and issues of power) our reaserch as a team aims at understanding contemporary dynamics that affect what rural and rurality stands for.
Dynamiques Rurales investigates rural dynamics in multiple research fields located in North and South. The team also has a strong commitment to education via academic activities and thus develops a range of degrees (master and doctorates) about rurality in different spatial and social contexts.