Posts Tagged ‘A la une’
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...
Read MoreBook 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...
Read More"Claire Miot honoured in CNRS Journal for "liberated Marseilles
The expertise of Claire Miot, lecturer in contemporary history at Sciences Po Aix and Mesopolhis researcher, is highlighted in an article by Marina Julienne published on 21 August 2024 in the CNRS online journal. "As a photojournalist and Resistance fighter, Julia Pirotte documented the first day of the Marseilles uprising on 21 August,...
Read MoreCatalogue of the "Migrations, a human odyssey" exhibition, organised at the MNHM with the support of Sylvie Mazzella, the exhibition's scientific co-curator.
Far from being a new phenomenon, migration has shaped our humanity. They are part of our past, present and future, not to mention all living things. A vast subject to explore in this new exhibition at the Musée de l'Homme! Sylvie Mazzella, Director of Sociology Research at MESOPOLHIS, is co-curator of the exhibition "Migrations,...
Read MoreBook 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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreBook 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...
Read MoreBook 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...
Read MoreMotion 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...
Read MoreArticle 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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