Book edited by Simon Mangon et al: "La fabrique de la thèse. A collective guide to a personal exercise".

Edited by : Béatrice GARAPON, Cécile JEANMOUGIN, Alice JUDELL, Simon MANGON Karthala, Hors Collection, 352p. - 20 June 2024 - ISBN: 9782384091874 While it is difficult to state precisely what a 'thesis' in the social sciences is, this book chooses to see it as a learning experience. This little guide to the...

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A look back at the Mesopolhis days - 1st edition 2024

The "Mesopolhis Days", held from 19 to 21 June 2024 at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH) and the Espace Philippe Seguin (EPS) at Sciences Po Aix, were a great success, combining presentations of doctoral students' work, lectures, workshops, the general meeting of the...

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Book by Louna Hassaini Moussaoui: "Memory is selective anyway. Intergenerational transmission of the memory of the Algerian War in French families of Algerian origin".

Louna Hassaini Moussaoui, L'Harmattan, 27 June 2024, 186p. Since Algeria's independence, the memory of the war of national liberation has been the subject of constant analysis in history and other social science disciplines. However, almost sixty years after the Evian Accords, no study has focused on the transmission of the memory of the Algerian...

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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 Dorotha 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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