The journal Anthropologie & développement focuses on the dynamics of social change and the interactions between these dynamics and «development» policies and programmes. Through in-depth qualitative research, its papers highlight the contingent processes related to the making of public polices, including the heterogeneity of actors and logics involved, and the ways that actors' behaviours shape these dynamics at different levels, as well as the issues of meanings and power, and the tensions and contradictions that permeate these processes.