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What role do victims play in climate trials? Testimonies and expert formalisations
Dossier in the latest issue of La Pensée écologique, 2023/1 (No. 10), p.1-3 A Mesopolhis and ANR PROCLIMEX project study day, organised in May 2022, led to the publication of a dossier in the latest issue of La Pensée écologique: "What place for victims in climate trials? Testimonies and expert formalisations". Christophe TRAÏNI , member of Mesopolhis,...
Read MoreInvestigating in an extremely depressed family environment. Epistemological and ethical issues in research on the island of Mahoran
By Pierre-Olivier WEISS, book chapter in Les savoirs de l'extrême. Médiation-appropriation en contextes, Editions des archives contemporaines, France, 2023, p. 19-40 Enquêter en terrain extrêmophile oblige une posture armée épistémologiquement et théoriquement mais contraint tout chercheur à la distanciation participante. Based on a survey of families living in Mayotte, whose particularity is their...
Read MoreTrans-Mediterranean mobility and migration. An Italian-French dialogue on movements in and across the Mediterranean
Sylvie Mazzella, "A critical approach to trans-Mediterranean migration. Perspectives de recherche Italo-françaises" in Mobilités et migrations trans-méditerranéennes, edited by Andrea Calabretta - Padova University Press, 2024, pp. 26-40 This volume brings together the work developed around the conference "Nouvelles mobilités et migrations trans-méditerranéennes", which took place in Padua on 4...
Read MorePlayful mediation: a new gap between the museum and its visitors?
By Nicolas Doduik, chapter in ENTRE LE JEU ET LE JOUEUR, Presses universitaires de Liège, 2023, p. 287-308 In the field of museums, professionals and observers generally consider that cultural content is never immediately accessible. It is precisely the role of 'cultural mediation' to add a mediating element between cultural content and its receivers in order to...
Read MoreLocal Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities - A view from post-apartheid South Africa
By Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, UCL Press, published 27 February 2024, 494 Pages Why are even progressive local authorities with the 'will to improve' seldom able to change cities? Why does it seem almost impossible to redress spatial inequalities, deliver and maintain basic services, elevate impoverished areas and protect the marginalised communities? Why do municipalities in...
Read MoreFortune and misfortune: stories and professions of the municipal credit of Marseille
Sylvie Mazzella, Laurence Americi, éditions Gaussen, 2023, 160 pages This illustrated book, published to mark the 350th anniversary of the Mont de piété, which became the Crédit Municipal de Marseille, invites us to delve into the history of pawnbroking, a practice that is more relevant than ever in a world shaken by economic and financial crises. This is a first...
Read More"Images, work and video games", publication of the review Images du Travail, Travail des Images n°16
Edited by Fanny Lignon and Heri Rakoto-Raharimanana (Mesopolhis) Western civilisations traditionally set play against study, pleasure against effort, leisure against work, even if the seriousness of play is not necessarily denied. Today, video games are a widespread leisure activity, and it now seems that everyone, or at least everyone in the world, is a gamer.
Read MoreValérie Erlich welcomes CNRS delegation to Mesopolhis
Mesopolhis is pleased to welcome Valérie Elrich, on a CNRS delegation for the academic year 2023-2024 Valérie Erlich is a lecturer in Sociology at the Université Côte d'Azur and a research associate at URMIS (Migration and Society Research Unit - Université côte d'Azur, Paris Cité, IRD, CNRS). My delegation project for 2023-2024 will look at...
Read More"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...
Read MoreHow 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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