Posts by benoit

Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 2021, n°95, p. 163-193. link "A service that the Church renders to the School for its promoters, a service that the State renders to the Church for its detractors, the teaching of the Catholic religion in Italy is a case study in the government of religion in schools. The controversial quantification of its audiences since 1986 underlines...

For some years now, no discourse on our society has escaped the "language of crisis". As if the crisis had become a new normal. Migration, pandemics, democracy, capitalism, ecology, policing, gender, ethno-racial issues, secularism, etc... The tools for reading have become obsolete and it is increasingly difficult to see clearly. No theme...

"What meaning do people today give to their status as voters? The massive abstention rate at recent elections raises the question of what it means to vote. Behind this question lies the urgent need to stop starting by asking "who will get through to the second round? and to break with the journalism of horse-race commentary, saturated by polls...

Centre Noria Research, dec. 2021.en ligne "This piece interrogates the challenges of advancing media reform initiatives within authoritarian contexts. Based on a case study of the EU-funded Support to Media in Jordan Project-launched in the wake of the Arab Spring-it reveals how the local mediation of internationally sponsored reform efforts allows authoritarian regimes to ingratiate...