MANGON Simon

Contact details

simon.mangon@hotmail.fr

Functions

2021-2022: Co-responsible for the project "Rethinking the national fact in the Middle East: Jordan as a case study", funded by the SoMuM Institute.

https://somum.hypotheses.org/764

2020-2021: Head of training at Noria Research, and member of the Board of Directors.

 

2019-2021: Temporary teacher, IEP Aix-en-Provence

  • Major issues in contemporary journalism, Master 1 "Information professions" (20h)

2018 - present: PhD student in political science at the Mesopolhis laboratory, under the supervision of Magali Nonjon and Mohamed Tozy

Thesis topic: Un journal, des journaux. Transnational production and local appropriation of 'democratisation' by the media (France, Jordan, Tunisia)

Areas of research

International political sociology: development aid, public diplomacy

Sociology of media and journalism

Sociology of the State and public action

Comparative policy (France, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon)

Scientific coordinator, programme manager

Programme responsibility

  • 2021-2022: Co-responsible for the " project Rethinking nationhood in the Middle East: Jordan as a case study" with Norig Neveu and Taher Labadi, funded by the SoMuM Institute: https://somum.hypotheses.org/764
  • 2020-2021: Co-responsible for the " project Deciphering international aid: the European Union's action in Jordan "with Emma Empociello and Camille Abescat

Research networks 

  • 2021 - present: Associate doctoral student at Ifpo Amman
  • 2018 - present: member of the thematic network RT 37 "Sociology of the media" of the French Sociology Association (AFS)
  • 2018 - present: Member of the Noria Research Centre

Organisation of seminars 

  • 2023: co-responsible for the annual seminar " Political economies of research in the humanities and social sciences in the Arab world" with Candice Raymond and Sbeih Sbeih, Ifpo
  • 2022: co-leader of the seminar " Rethinking the Nationhood in the Middle-East: Jordan as a Case Study "with Norig Neveu and Taher Labadi
  • 2020-2022: co-responsible for the annual training seminar ". The researchers' factory "with Camille Abescat, Noria Research

 

 

Organisation of study days / conferences 

  • 5-6 October 2022, co-organiser of the conference " Rethinking the Nationhood in the Middle-East: Jordan as a case study" with Taher Labadi and Norig Neveu, Aix-en-Provence / Amman
  • 15 March 2 0 2 1 , co-organiser of the study day " A profession in crisis? Struggles for professional autonomy at the frontiers of journalism "Dahani Safia, Ghorbanzadeh Keyvan and Vauchez Ysé, Réseau thématique "Sociologie des médias" de l'Association française de sociologie, Paris.
  • 16 November 2020, co-organiser of the study day " Jordan as an object of social science"With Neveu Norig and Labadi Taher, IREMAM/LEST/IFPO/CHERPA, Aix-en-Provence.
  • 26-28 June 2019, co-organiser of the study days " Anchoring movement. An approach based on players, spaces and power relations "with Benmami Amine, Pluta Audrey, Yankaya Dilek, CHERPA Summer School, Aix-en-Provence.

Productions

Articles in a peer-reviewed journal 

  • Mangon Simon, to be published in 2023, " Diplomacy through aid. Struggles, actors and representations of French aid in the foreign media" , Communication issues.
  • Mangon Simon, 2020, " When the journalist jumps class. The consecration of the media by the state "citizens ", Communication policiespp. 35-64

Contributions to collective works 

  • Mangon Simon, to be published in 2022, " Journalism to be imported? Sociology of media cooperation intermediaries in Tunisia"in Courty Guillaume, Leconte Cécile (eds.), Transfers, exports-imports, circulations. What paradigms for political science?Presses Universitaires Septentrion, Lille.
  • Mangon Simon, 2022, " Journalists of general interest or actors in international action? Practical hybridities and professional mythologies of new Tunisian media "in Aldrin Philippe, Ferré Nathalie (eds.), Civil society at work. The unresolved professionalism of transnational actionPresses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence.
  • Mangon Simon, 2022, " At the bedside of Tunisian journalism? The manufacture of foreign aid, its effects on the profession and strategies for reappropriation "in Benaziz Bachir, Benchenna Abdel, Marchetti Dominique (eds.) The spaces of the (im)possible: the media in North Africa since the 1990s Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat.

 

Book reviews

  • Mangon Simon, "DELLE RATTA Donatella, Shooting a Revolution. Visual Media and Warfare in Syria", French Journal of Political ScienceVolume 69, October-December 2019.
  • Mangon Simon, "GIRARD Muriel, POLO Jean-François, SCALBERT-YUCEL Clémence (dirs.), Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World, Palgrave Mac Millan, 2018" - Review of Muslim Worlds and the Mediterranean - 25 March 2019
  • Mangon Simon, "CHEVRE Mathilde, Le poussin n'est pas un chien. Quarante ans de création arabe en littérature pour la jeunesse, reflet et projet des sociétés (Égypte, Syrie, Liban) Ifpo, Iremam, Le Port a jauni, 2015." - Review of Muslim Worlds and the Mediterranean - 10 October 2018

Other publications

  • " EU support for the Jordanian Media: A Mixed Bag of Successes and Failures".Noria Research, 15 December 2021. https://noria-research.com/eu-support-for-the-jordanian-media/
  • " Authoritarianism in Jordan, a transnational production. Interview with Benjamin Schuetze "co-written with Emma Empociello and Camille Abescat, 15 June 2021. https://noria-research.com/authoritarianism- in-jordan/
  • " Jordan: behind the palace battles, tenacious social discontent "with Camille Abescat, Orient XXI, 10 April 2021. https://orientxxi.info/magazine/jordanie-derriere-les-luttes-de-palais-une- grogne-sociale-tenace,4670
  • " When repression comes out of the shadows in Jordan "Co-authored with Camille Abescat, Noria Research, 7 December 2020. https://www.noria-research.com/fr/quand-la-repression-sort-de-lombre-en- jordan/
  • "Report on the study day "Jordan as an object of the social sciences".co-authored with Taher Labadi and Norig Neveu, Carnets de l'IFPO, 26 April 2021. https://ifpo.hypotheses.org/11123
  •  " Jordan: journalists under control? "Carnets Hypothèses IEP d'Aix, 16 September 2020. https://spx.hypotheses.org/3188
  •  " The quest for better information. Inside Lebanon's media labs ", Synaps Network, October 15, 2018. https://www.synaps.network/post/emerging-media-startups-lebanon
  •  " How to report differently in an authoritarian context? Journalistic regulation and innovation in Jordan ", Les Carnets de l'IFPO, 20 March 2018. http://ifpo.hypotheses.org/7818