Winner of the MMSH 2024 thesis prize: congratulations to Lucas Faure!

The MMSH 2024 thesis prize has been awarded to Lucas Faure for his political science thesis entitled "Gouverner le social par le religieux: les ONG humanitaires musulmanes en France"! To celebrate this announcement, a ceremony will be held on Monday 20 January 2025 at 3:30pm. It will be followed by a tasting of the...

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Article by Guillaume Silhol: "En rangs et en tribunes: une analyse d'interventions intellectuelles sur le "wokisme" en France (2020-2023)" (In rows and in tribunes: an analysis of intellectual interventions on "wokism" in France (2020-2023)).

Article by Guillaume Silhol and Margot Mahoudeau in Mots. Les langages du politique, n°136 (2024), pages 41 to 61 Abstract Since the early 2020s, 'wokism' has become a theme of intellectual intervention in France in spaces associated with the right and conservative positions. A study of 'anti-wokist' forums as forms of intervention shows both the...

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Article by Matthieu Demory: "Differentiated relationships to digital culture".

Article by Matthieu Demory in the journal SociologieS , section 'Premiers textes', 2024 Abstract This article examines the relationship between individuals and digital culture. Its aim is to highlight social-digital inequalities, marked in particular by gender, age, class and cultural capital. By focusing on...

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Article by Yoann Morvan: "Les Juifs de France à l'épreuve des élections de 2024" (French only)

Article by Jérémy Guedj and Yoann Morvan in the review Esprit, n°314, October 2024 Chapô The campaign for the 2024 legislative elections, by reducing the Jews of France to their affiliation, has placed them in a situation of double bind. The immoderate use of the theme of anti-Semitism has led to an intellectual confusion, which is without doubt one of the...

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Article by Omar Fassatoui: "De la judiciarisation du racisme en Tunisie. Progress and limitations".

Article by Omar Fassatoui in Racismes anti-Noirs en Afrique du Nord, Tumultes, n°63, Éditions Kimé, 15 November 2024 Article summary: This article explores the judicialisation of racism in Tunisia, highlighting the advances and limitations of Law 50-2018 on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. Adopted in...

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Article by Cesare Mattina: "Ordinary, yet highly denounced practices. Reflections on the clientelist dimension of public policies from the Marseilles laboratory".

Article by Cesare Mattina in International Journal of Comparative Politics, Vol. 30 (3), 2024 AbstractMany social science and political science researchers who deal with clientelism in Western countries consider it to be a mode of social and political regulation that is in the process of weakening. Some even believe that this decline is irreversible. This contribution, developed under the...

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AAC doctoral seminar "Experiences of violence and contemporary conflicts".

Organised by three doctoral students and a young doctor in history from the MESOPOLHIS laboratory, this seminar aims to provide a monthly meeting place for researchers, post-doctoral students, doctoral students and master's students in the humanities and social sciences whose research focuses on experiences of violence in the context of contemporary conflict in the 19th and 20th centuries. Organising committee...

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Article by Matthieu Demory and Perrine Martin: "Capital numérique: une approche sociocritique de la relation à la culture numérique chez les adolescents en France".

Article by Matthieu Demory and Perrine Martin in Médiations Et Médiatisations, No. 19 (2024) AbstractAs part of a collaborative research project investigating the effects of a system for distributing digital tablets and encouraging digital use in the classroom on the learning of pupils in Year 4, it was necessary to take the opposite approach to the initial objective in order to...

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Article by Guillaume Silhol: "Rilevanza e Ambivalenza Politica Della Precarietà Dei Docenti in Emilia-Romagna".

Article by Guillaume Silhol in Meridiana, No. 109, CONTROPOLITICHE (2024), pages 167 à 188 AbstractSociological studies of precarious activists outline the tensions between the political relevance of precarity as a category and material instability for movements. This article tackles how precariousness is framed diversely by secondary schoolteachers in a region of Northern Italy when referring...

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Book by Claire Miot: "Le débarquement de Provence, août 1944" (The Provence landings, August 1944)

Claire Miot, Le débarquement de Provence, août 1944, co-published by Passés Composés, Ministère des Armées and ECPAD, 21 August 2024, 192p. ISBN: 979-10-404-0833-8 At 8am on 15 August 1944, Allied troops landed in Provence. The American army, British commandos and a rearmed French army led by General de Lattre de Tassigny set off...

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