ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As editorial team we are grateful for the support and sponsorship we have received over the past years since the inauguration of our MEAM network, which has now culminated in this publication and accompanying website. We would like to thank in particular the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles for their financial support of the MEAM conferences held in 2022 and 2023. We also thank Chloe Vandenberghe and Nolwen Vouiller for their hands-on help in the preparation of these conferences. Our gratitude goes out to the University of Liège Research Council for the financial support for the book and the website. We also thank the department of Anthropology and Development Studies of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship grant (FT210100452), the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University, and the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg for financial support toward the open access contribution for the publication of the volume. We also send our appreciation to the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University and the Swedish Research Council grant (2018-00504) for the mobility support that allowed us to share time and place together. Finally, we thank the reviewers of our volume, and the guidance that their constructive feedback gave us in defining our argument more precisely.