LABORDE Vanille

Contact details

vanille.laborde@gmail.com

A contract lecturer in political science at Toulouse Capitole University, her research focuses on the administration of secularism in schools. Her work sheds light on the effects of politicisation on the practices of middle managers in the French education system.

Functions

Since 2024 - Contract MCF in political science at Toulouse Capitole University (Idetcom) & associate researcher at Mesopolhis

 

2023-2024 - ATER in political science at the Université Lumière Lyon 2

 

2018-2023 - Visiting professor at various universities (IEP d'Aix-en-Provence, EPHE-Université PSL)

 

2018-2023 - Contract PhD student at the Mesopolhis laboratory, directed by Franck Frégosi & Lorenzo Barrault-Stella

Title of thesis : Administering secularism. The policy to combat "attacks on secularism" in the French education system

  • AFSP Thesis Prize - Mattei Dogan Foundation
  • City of Marseille Dissertation Prize

Areas of research

Political sociology

Sociology of public action

Sociology of administration and the State

Sociology of public problems

Sociology of schools and educational inequalities

Secular policies and the government of religion

Productions

Project coordination

  • (to be published in 2026) with Thomas Douniès and Guillaume Silhol, The political production of schools and the production of politics in schoolsPresses Universitaires du Septentrion, Paradoxa collection

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • (2025) with Thomas Douniès and Guillaume Silhol, "Même pas envie d'en parler. Quand la politique s'invite et s'évite en salle des profs", Nouvelle Revue du Travail, vol. 26 "Work as a political space
  • (2022), "Jouer le jeu de la laïcité. Les réappropriations des dispositifs laïques par les cadres scolaires français", Sociology and societies, vol. 54, no. 1, "Laïcité, ses actrices et ses acteurs", pp. 137-165
  • (2019), 'Le religieux dans le répertoire d'action local de l'Éducation nationale: les praticiens face aux prescriptions centrales', Sociologies Pratiquesvol. 39, "Religion at work", p.31-43
  • (2018) with Guillaume Silhol, "The Intertwining of Laïcité and Ethnicity: Observations from Teachers' Practices in State Schools in Provence", Italian Journal of Sociology of Educationvol. 10, p. 58-81

Book chapters

  • (forthcoming 2026), "La domestication administrative d'une controverse autour du 'problème laïque' : quand la gestion du ramadan à l'École fait polémique sur Twitter", in Thomas Douniès, Vanille Laborde and Guillaume Silhol, The political production of schools and the production of politics in schoolsPresses Universitaires du Septentrion, Paradoxa series
  • (to be published in 2026), "Introduction. L'École et le politique. Pluridisciplinary perspectives for renewed analysis", in Thomas Douniès, Vanille Laborde and Guillaume Silhol, The political production of schools and the production of politics in schoolsPresses Universitaires du Septentrion, Paradoxa series
  • (forthcoming 2025) with Thomas Douniès and Guillaume Silhol, "Au travail, on travaille"? Entre intérêt et évitement, l'ambivalente 'dépolitisation' d'enseignants-es du secondaire privé catholique", in Éric Agrikoliansky and François Buton (eds.), Voting again. Contemporary forms of politicisation, Presses Universitaires de France

Book review

  • (2022), "François Lorcerie (ed.), Education and diversity. The fundamentals of actionPresses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021, Sociologyvol. 13, no. 1, pp. 99-102

List of publications on HAL

Presentation at a conference

Charles Reveillere, Vanille Laborde. During and after fieldwork. Utilization of scientific public policy knowledge as a process. International Workshops on Public Policy (IWPP), International Public Policy Association (IPPA), Jun 2024, Guadalajara, Mexico. ⟨halshs-04635899⟩