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A look back at the Mesopolhis days - 1st edition 2024
Les « Journées du Mesopolhis », qui se sont tenues du 19 au 21 juin 2024 à la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (MMSH) et à l’Espace Philippe Seguin (EPS) à Sciences Po Aix, ont remporté un grand succès, mêlant sur 3 jours, des présentations de travaux des doctorants, des conférences, des ateliers, l’assemblée générale du…
Read MoreBook 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 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...
Read MoreCitizens monitoring public action. Belgium, France, Spain (2010)
Jessy Bailly, aux éditions du Septentrion, 2024, 396p. La démocratie représentative est-elle encore réformable ? C’est la tâche que se sont assignés des groupes de militantes et de militants au niveau local en France, en Espagne et en Belgique qui tentent de contrôler l’action de leurs élu·es, dans le contexte de la crise de la…
Read MoreThose who can still walk and smile
Océane Perona, published by Julliard, 2024, 147 pages Héloïse sleeps badly and drinks too much coffee. In her office at the Violences group, the days go by and the minutes of rape victims' interviews pile up on the table. Every day, Héloïse has the feeling that she's working her socks off for nothing, since most of her investigations...
Read MoreArticle ""Those who can still walk and smile" by sociologist Océane Perona: gendarmes and rapists "
In an article in Marie-Claire, Océane Perona presents her new book, "Celles qui peuvent encore marcher et sourire", published by Julliard. Based on her doctoral thesis, which looked at the role of consent in police rape investigations, this first novel plunges us into the day-to-day life of a police department, where...
Read MoreWhat role do victims play in climate trials? Testimonies and expert formalisations
Dossier in the latest issue of La Pensée écologique, 2023/1 (No. 10), p.1-3 A Mesopolhis and ANR PROCLIMEX project study day, organised in May 2022, led to the publication of a dossier in the latest issue of La Pensée écologique: "What place for victims in climate trials? Testimonies and expert formalisations". Christophe TRAÏNI , member of Mesopolhis,...
Read MoreInvestigating in an extremely depressed family environment. Epistemological and ethical issues in research on the island of Mahoran
By Pierre-Olivier WEISS, book chapter in Les savoirs de l'extrême. Médiation-appropriation en contextes, Editions des archives contemporaines, France, 2023, p. 19-40 Enquêter en terrain extrêmophile oblige une posture armée épistémologiquement et théoriquement mais contraint tout chercheur à la distanciation participante. Based on a survey of families living in Mayotte, whose particularity is their...
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