Archive for June 2024
Book by Louna Hassaini Moussaoui: "Memory is selective anyway. Intergenerational transmission of the memory of the Algerian War in French families of Algerian origin".
Louna Hassaini Moussaoui, L'Harmattan, 27 June 2024, 186p. Since Algeria's independence, the memory of the war of national liberation has been the subject of constant analysis in history and other social science disciplines. However, almost sixty years after the Evian Accords, no study has focused on the transmission of the memory of the Algerian...
Read MoreBook by Constance De Gourcy: "L'impensé de l'absence. (En)quête sur le lien social à distance".
Constance De Gourcy, Collection Migrations - PUFR, June 2024, 156p. This short but dense work, which is the result of a dissertation for a post-graduate diploma (Habilitation à diriger des recherches), aims to fill a gap in French-language sociological literature. Indeed, since the seminal work of sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad, the term "absence" has been absent from research, with the exception of works on the...
Read MoreMotion in support of the definitive acquittal of researcher Pinar Selek
The members of the Laboratory Council of UMR 7064 MESOPOLHIS wish to express their unconditional support for their colleague Pinar Selek, Associate Professor of Sociology (Université Côte d'Azur/UMR URMIS), and their solidarity with the delegations of prominent figures who will be travelling to Turkey on 28 June to support her in the various trials she has been undergoing for the last 25...
Read MoreArticle by Jessy Bailly: "Contestation par les chiffres: analyse des collectifs d'audit citoyen de la dette en France, en Espagne et en Belgique" (in French)
Article by Jessy Bailly in Critique internationale 2024/2 (No. 103), pages 113 to 137 This article looks at how figures are used by activists from "citizen audit of local debt" collectives (in France, Spain and Belgium) to criticise governments' management of the debt and finances of...
Read MoreDenouncing discrimination at university: between silence, revelation and reporting
Défenseur des droits, Bozec Géraldine, Blassel Romane, Cécile Rodrigues, Laura Schuft, Christelle Hamel, Karimi Hanane, Weiss Pierre-Olivier, Ludovic Morand, Marguerite Cognet, Fabrice Dhume, 24 April 2024, 39p. Based on a quantitative and qualitative survey of students' and staff members' experiences of discrimination at university, this report analyses the factors and mechanisms that lead to institutional reporting of discrimination...
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