Laureate
Associate Professor (Maîtresse de conférences), PhD in Social Geography
Research project
Substantive democracy in a context of vulnerability: interaction of gender, local justice and socio-economic insecurity around the Dinabe in South-West Madagascar
" Toziny Viva ELIANAH is an Associate Professor at the University of Toliara (Madagascar), where she also serves as Head of Communications.
Biography
Toziny Viva ELIANAH is an Associate Professor at the University of Toliara (Madagascar), where she also serves as Head of Communications. She also teaches at the Institut de Formation Technique de Toliara. Holding a PhD in Social Geography since 2025, her thesis examined women's adaptation strategies in the face of food insecurity in South-West Madagascar, through a resolutely gendered ethnographic approach. Her research covers gender and patriarchy, food insecurity, disaster and risk management, power and substantive democracy, as well as meaning-making and traditional medicine.
