Book by Constance De Gourcy: "L'impensé de l'absence. (En)quête sur le lien social à distance".

Constance De Gourcy, Collection Migrations - PUFR, June 2024, 156p. This short but dense work, which is the result of a dissertation for a post-graduate diploma (Habilitation à diriger des recherches), aims to fill a gap in French-language sociological literature. Indeed, since the seminal work of sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad, the term "absence" has been absent from research, with the exception of works on the...

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Motion 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...

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Article 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...

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Denouncing 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...

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Citizens monitoring public action. Belgium, France, Spain (2010)

Jessy Bailly, published by Editions du Septentrion, 2024, 396p. Can representative democracy still be reformed? This is the task set by groups of local activists in France, Spain and Belgium who are trying to monitor the actions of their elected representatives, in the context of the crisis in the political system.

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Article by Dorota Dakowska: "The nuances of excellence. Higher education and research policy in Poland, between market logic and an authoritarian turn".

Article by Dorota Dakowska in Gouvernement et action publique 2024/1 (VOL. 13), pages 53 to 74 - Editions : Presses de Sciences Po This article analyses the transformations of higher education and research in Poland, focusing on the reforms following the change of regime in 1989, those introduced by...

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Article by Dorota Dakowska: "Fleeing and welcoming: Polish and Ukrainian diaspora associations facing exile".

Article published in the daily AOC (Analyse Opinion Critique) on 28 March 2024 In the face of an unprecedented crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Poland has become a land of asylum for millions of refugees. Thanks to the commitment of the Polish voluntary sector and the Ukrainian diaspora, it has been possible to...

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Those 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...

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Article ""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...

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Loïc Le Pape welcomes CNRS delegation to Mesopolhis

Mesopolhis is pleased to welcome Loïc Le Pape as a CNRS delegate for 2023-2024 Loïc Le Pape is a lecturer in political science at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et science politique (CESSP, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS, EHESS). His research focuses on the interaction between the religious and political spheres...

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