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Dennis Rodgers, introductory article: "Critical Gangster Life Histories" (special issue of the journal Critical Criminology)
Dennis Rodgers, "Critical Gangster Life Histories", Critical Criminology, 2025 [published 8 september 2025]. Abstract: This introduction to the special issue on "Critical Gangster Life Histories" explores the origins and evolution of the life history method in relation to gang research, before considering the contributions of the contemporary renaissance in studies based on gangster life histories....
Read MoreBook chapter by Constance De Gourcy: "Absences", in "Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation: Concepts, Terms and Practices".
Constance De Gourcy, "Absences". In: Christopher Balme, Burcu Dogramaci, Roland Wenzlhuemer (Ed.), Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation: Concepts, Terms, Practices, De Gruyter Oldenburg, 2025. About this book: Globalisation is one of the most contested concepts of our time. From its promise of borderless flows of people, goods, and finance in the 1990s, it embodies today almost...
Read MoreArticle by Constance De Gourcy: "Beyond the double absence: new perspectives, new proposals" (Diasporas)
Constance De Gourcy, "Au-delà de la double absence : nouveaux regards, nouvelles propositions", Diasporas, n°43, 2025, pp. 195-212. Résumé : Since the seminal work of Abdelmalek Sayad, references to absence have been used less and less in migration studies. This marker of social ties at a distance survives only in the narrative of its decomposition as a result of technological advances...
Read MoreAAC conference "Marseille, ordinary city? Urban realities and counter-hegemonic narratives" (4-6 May 2026, Marseille)
Please find below the call for papers for the conference "Marseille, ordinary city? Urban realities and counter-hegemonic narratives", organised by Mathilde Jourdam-Boutin and Dennis Rodgers. The conference will be held from 4 to 6 May 2026 in Marseille. Proposals should be sent to marseillevilleordinaire@gmail.com by Friday 31 October 2025. They must not...
Read MoreCall for Papers " Military History Consortium 3rd Annual Conference " (3-5 June 2026, Aix-en-Provence)
Military History Consortium 3rd Annual Conference Sciences Po Aix, Aix-en-Provence 3-5 June 2026 Call for Papers The Military History Consortium (MHC) will be holding its third annual conference on 3-5 June 2026 at Sciences Po Aix in Aix-en-Provence, France. The keynote lecture will be given by Professor Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po Paris). The organising committee...
Read MoreScientific home - Welcome to Iryna Sikorska!
MESOPOLHIS is delighted to welcome Iryna Sikorska from 1 to 28 September 2025, as part of the OPEN COST Action (www.opencostaction.eu). Iryna Sikorska holds a doctorate in public administration (2007) and sociology (2023). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Marioupol State University (Kiev, Ukraine). She is also the founder...
Read MorePhilippe Aldrin - Speech in La Provence: "The Overton window, a communication strategy that "makes marginal proposals acceptable"".
Philippe Aldrin's contribution to an article in La Provence published on 21 July 2025. Coined in the 1990s and increasingly popular in France, what exactly is the concept of the "Overton window", named after its American inventor Joseph P. Overton? Philippe Aldrin, professor of political science at the University of...
Read MoreYoann Morvan, co-editor of the book "Le genre en questions au Moyen-Orient. An approach through urban spaces".
Thierry BOISSIERE, Gaëlle GILLOT, Yoann MORVAN (dir.), Le genre en questions au Moyen-Orient. Une approche par les espaces urbains, Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 28 August 2025, 256p. Presentation: Far from the fixed and naturalised representations of a Middle East perceived as immobile and conservative, this book explores the contemporary dynamics of gender relations and identifications in the Middle East....
Read MoreArticle by Jessy Bailly: "The Equivocality of the EU Citizen Turn: Multiple Conceptions of Citizen Deliberation".
Jessy Bailly, "The Equivocality of the EU Citizen Turn: Multiple Conceptions of Citizen Deliberation", Politics & Policy, Vol. 53(3), 2025. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/polp.70052/ Abstract: European institutions have promoted and implemented a citizen turn since the beginning of the 2000s, with the use of mini-publics where randomly selected citizens deliberate on European policies. Even if citizen...
Read MoreSimon Mangon, editor of a journal issue: Le fait national au Moyen-Orient. La Jordanie comme cas d'étude (Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée)
Jasmine Benhaida, Simon Mangon and Norig Neveu (eds.), Le fait national au Moyen-Orient. La Jordanie comme cas d'étude, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, n°157, 1/2025. Presentation : With the 'national fact' as an entry point, this issue reports on the renewal of research on Jordan. Paradoxically, the country...
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