Archive for February 2024
Fortune and misfortune: stories and professions of the municipal credit of Marseille
Sylvie Mazzella, Laurence Americi, éditions Gaussen, 2023, 160 pages This illustrated book, published to mark the 350th anniversary of the Mont de piété, which became the Crédit Municipal de Marseille, invites us to delve into the history of pawnbroking, a practice that is more relevant than ever in a world shaken by economic and financial crises. This is a first...
Read More"Images, work and video games", publication of the review Images du Travail, Travail des Images n°16
Edited by Fanny Lignon and Heri Rakoto-Raharimanana (Mesopolhis) Western civilisations traditionally set play against study, pleasure against effort, leisure against work, even if the seriousness of play is not necessarily denied. Today, video games are a widespread leisure activity, and it now seems that everyone, or at least everyone in the world, is a gamer.
Read MoreValérie Erlich welcomes CNRS delegation to Mesopolhis
Mesopolhis is pleased to welcome Valérie Elrich, on a CNRS delegation for the academic year 2023-2024 Valérie Erlich is a lecturer in Sociology at the Université Côte d'Azur and a research associate at URMIS (Migration and Society Research Unit - Université côte d'Azur, Paris Cité, IRD, CNRS). My delegation project for 2023-2024 will look at...
Read MorePedro Romero Balsas welcomed as a guest researcher at Mesopolhis
Archive We are delighted to welcome Pedro Romero-Balsas as a visiting researcher at Mesopolhis Pedro Romero-Balsas is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Between January and June 2024, Pedro Romero-Balsas will be taking part in a research project in collaboration with Magali Ballatore at the University of Aix-Marseille (Meshopolis). The research involves a comparative study...
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