Pedro 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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Interview with Sylvia Girel: "Why study cultural practices and audiences?

MESOPOLHIS is home to a structure that is unique in France in its format: the Observatoire des publics et des pratiques de la culture. What could be the point of such an observatory? Why take an interest in culture and those who practise it? Interview with Sylvia Girel, sociologist and coordinator of the...

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"Research/creation at work in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. A prospective study in progress.

An article by Sylvia Girel, published in La lettre | January 2024 - CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales. The CSI-INSHS Foresight Day organised on 26 September 2023, based on the foresight report of its Scientific Advisory Board1, addressed the theme of "research and creation", raising the question of the place and role of...

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How are municipal safety authorities organised?

Expertise, security and local politics in Lyon, Nice, Rennes and Strasbourg from 1995 to 2020 - Audrey Freyermuth (Sciences Po Aix, Mesopolhis) By studying the birth and reorganisation of municipal administrations dedicated to security between 1995 and 2020 in Lyon, Nice, Rennes and Strasbourg, we show how the dynamics of the local political game encourage the disqualification and...

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The sociologist at the theatre - Artistic ritual and cultural dispositions

Yannick Duvauchelle (associate researcher at Mesopolhis)- Editions L'Harmattan, Collection: Logiques sociales - sociologie des arts "This book is the result of an immersive investigation within a participative creative project: teenagers from contrasting social backgrounds were invited to take part in the creation of a theatre show, within a national stage....

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Social order, electoral disorder - A sociology of the 2017 vote

Edited by Éric Agrikoliansky, Catherine Achin, Philippe Aldrin (Sciences Po Aix, Mesopolhis), Lorenzo Barrault-Stella, Kevin Geay. Is voting just a matter of numbers? This is the impression that can be given by an election chronicle focused on the curve of voting intentions or on the percentages of composition or distribution of votes. But if the vote...

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Sébastien Oliveau - Interview for Express Hebdo: "Real estate, teleworking, residents... The new post-Covid France".

And to find out more about demographic dynamics in "low-density areas in France", watch the video "Why only 6.5% of the population lives there" from the online news channel "Hugo Décrypte", with Sébastien Oliveau, geographer and demographer at Aix-Marseille University, and researcher at the Mesopolhis Laboratory.

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