AAC research seminar "International aid in "crisis"?

Please find below the call for papers for the research seminar "International aid in 'crisis'? Controversial aid policies and the reconfiguration of development struggles". The seminar will take place from May 2025, with a monthly session at the MESOPOLHIS laboratory in Aix-en-Provence, in a hybrid format. The coordinating team: Teoman...

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Dorota Dakowska - Speech on France Culture (war in Ukraine)

Speech by Dorota Dakowska on France Culture's 12:30 news programme on Monday 24 February (around 9:30). Summary: "The war in Ukraine remains the most central crisis with the most far-reaching consequences for the future of Europe," declared European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Kiev. She...

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Article by Jessy Bailly: "Reform nebula and the institutionalisation of democratic criticism in the EU".

Jessy Bailly, " Nébuleuse réformatrice et institutionnalisation de la critique démocratique dans l'UE ", Gouvernement et action publique, Vol. 13(4), 2024, pp.105-128. Abstract : This article studies the emergence of a nebula of reformers who contribute to updating the critique of the democratic inadequacy of the European Union, and who are endowed with resources and know-how relating to the organisation of democratic...

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Nicolas Badalassi - Appearance on Europe 1's "Au Coeur de l'Histoire" programme: "The Yalta Conference

Nicolas Badalassi's contribution to the programme "Au Cœur de l'Histoire" hosted by Stéphane Bern on Europe 1 (episode of Tuesday 4 February). Summary Stéphane Bern takes us to Crimea, on the shores of the Black Sea, to relive the Yalta conference that brought together, 80 years ago to the day, the...

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Sylvie Mazzella - Interview, CNRS Journal "Migrations: 300,000 years of mixing".

"An exhibition at the Musée de l'Homme retraces the movements of Homo sapiens in the light of the long history of humanity. On a complex subject, often the subject of fanciful representations, the scientific curators wanted to bring together different points of view - those of research, of art, but also of human beings." Interview with Sylvie Mazzella and Christine...

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AAC international workshops "Rethinking the Lebanese Civil War: National Struggle, Regional Stakes, and Global Entanglements".

Please find below the call for papers for the series of two international workshops entitled 'Rethinking the Lebanese Civil War: National Struggle, Regional Stakes, and Global Entanglements', organised by Nathaniel George (SOAS, University of London - Centre for Palestine Studies), Jonathan Hassine (Sciences Po Aix - MESOPOLHIS) and Candice Raymond (CNRS - Centre d'histoire sociale des mondes...

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Article by Jessy Bailly: "The politics of public data and numbers in activism: attitudes towards public numbers by citizen debt audit groups in Belgium, France and Spain".

Jessy Bailly, "The politics of public data and numbers in activism: attitudes towards public numbers by citizen debt audit groups in Belgium, France and Spain", Social Movement Studies, [online], February 2025. Abstract : This article explores the use of public data and numbers (PDN) by activists associated with citizen audits of local debt groups...

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Book by Natalia Ribas-Mateos: "A Message to You. A Cartography of Mobilities - Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities and Global Cities".

Natalia Ribas-Mateos, A Message to You. A Cartography of Mobilities - Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities and Global Cities, ibidem Press, March 2025, 280p. ISBN: 9783838219387 Summary: New analytical frameworks help us to shed light on global transformations regarding community responses and complex ways to think about gendered solidarities. Bringing together different ethnographic fieldworks, Ribas-Mateos...

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Co-edited by Laura Oso, Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Melissa Moralli: "Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration. New Mobilities and Artivism".

Laura Oso, Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Melissa Moralli (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration. New Mobilities and Artivism, Edward Elgar Publishing, 21 January 2025, 614p. ISBN: 978 1 03530 037 2 With the participation of Constance de Gourcy ("Mediterranean crossing", p.347 and "Missing in migration" with Sofia Stimmatini, p.392) and Sofia Laiz Moreira ("Social capital", p....

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Book chapter contribution, Christophe Traïni: "Mobilisations, résistances, et participation" (Les sociétés face aux défis climatiques)

TRAÏNI, Christophe, et al. Mobilisations, résistances, et participation. In Les sociétés face aux défis climatiques, Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Agnès Deboulet, Stéphanie Vermeersch (dir.), CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2024. Book synopsis: The reality of climate change is a given: the 'hard' sciences have been working for several years to account for it....

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