Jointly led by J.-P Dubost and Axel Gasquet, Les Orients désorientés [Disorienting the Orient] is a research project analysing the representations in the human imagination of the West’s Other and of the disorientation of the notion of the Orient in the face of globalization. The project positions itself firmly in the national and international fields of a new interpretation of orientalisms and their diversity and as part of a fundamental dialogues with ‘Postcolonial’ and ‘decolonizing’ Studies and with methodological approaches in Anthropology open to critical reflection regarding ways of rethinking the relationship between ‘us’ and ‘them’ by challenging any notion of hegemony.