DEBAERE Emilien
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As a doctoral student in political science, I work on contemporary Iraq, how the state functions and the strategies of different political groups to gain access to its resources.
Areas of research
Contemporary Iraq
Sociology of social movements
Spatial and social dynamics: political production of space, urban stigmatisation
Sociological reflections on the State: politics of the belly, links between political power and the private economic sector, clientelism, etc.
Scientific coordinator, programme manager
Summer school The Business of the State (August 2025, Normandy)
Topic: "Unformal negotiations between political parties, public actors, and private companies in Iraq: state weakness or redeployment?"
Organisation of session 5 of the seminar : Experiences of violence and contemporary conflicts
Communication: MESOPOLHIS Days (June 2025, Aix-en-Provence)
"Partisan and ideological competition in Iraqi universities".
Communication : 5th ISA Forum of Sociology (July 2025, Rabat)
Seminar: The Trajectories of Contemporary Religious Social Movements
Topic: "The Sadrist Religious Social Movement at the Local Network Level: Appropriation of Shiite Practices and Political Use".
Paper: 6th GIS-MOMM Congress (June 2025, Strasbourg) Seminar: Tourner autour des rond-points: imaginaires, récits d'état et pratiques citadines (Turning around roundabouts: imaginaries, narratives of state and urban practices)
Subject: Roundabouts: crossroads of politico-religious rivalries. A comparative study of the Sadrists (Baghdad) and the Houthists (Taez)" with Jules GRANGE-GASTINEL
Communication : Institute for Protest and Social Movement Research (November 2024, Vienna) - Annual Workshop of the Working Group "Social Movements and Policing".
Topic: "From Protectors to Persecutors: The role of the blue caps in the Iraqi Protests (2019-2020)
Productions
" In Iraq, the Sadrist movement is organising itself outside the institutions" The Conversation, 4 September 2025.