Mohamed Tozy: "Working with Max Weber", edited by Jean-Pierre Grossein and Béatrice Hibou
2022

This book examines the heuristic fruitfulness of Weber's approach for today's social sciences, at a time when the latter are once again questioning their foundation and their object. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of Max Weber's work at a time when references to it have become more numerous but more often than not conventional, and when the...

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Claire Bénit-Gbaffou. "Producing Planning Knowledge: How Professional PhD Candidates Bridge Research-Practice Divides."

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou & Glyn Williams - Urban Forum (2022) This paper addresses an important, but under-studied, pathway for knowledge production in the field of urban planning: the practitioner engaging with academia through the writing of a PhD. Drawing on our own experiences of doctoral mentoring, in dialogue with PhD candidates, we reflect on the questions and challenges this...

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Rémi Carcélès. "The vision of Rojava in France: between mobilisation and proscription".

La démocratie sous les bombes . Syrie-Le Rojava entre idéalisation et répression, edited by Pierre Crétois and Edouard Jourdain Collective work published by Editions du Bord de l'Eau. The aim of this book is to raise awareness of the democratic experience that has been developing in Syrian Kurdistan since the end of the twentieth century. Unjustly ignored, this...

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Bernardot, Marc. "The Liquid Architexte of Digitized Work." Rhetorics, Metaphors and Digital Technologies: The influence of language on our perception of the digitization of the World.

Edited by Emmanuelle Caccamo and Maude Bonenfant, 1st ed, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2022, pp. 13-32 The development of computer technologies, such as the connected city, big data and artificial intelligence, is supported by a range of persuasive discourses. Using a variety of language devices, figures and strategies...

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Bernardot Marc, "Le Grand Bleu de Frontex. Que disent les métaphores liquides des politiques migratoires européennes?" in Mehdi R. (ed.)

"L'agenciarisation de la politique européenne d'immigration et d'asile", 2020, pp. 17-27, collection "Confluences des droits", Aix-en-Provence, DICE, AMU Under the effect of an unprecedented combination of political, economic and social factors, the Mediterranean is one of those places where history has, over the last few decades, got out of control. It is against this backdrop that the...

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Dorota Dakowska - Interview in Le Monde: "To join the EU, Kiev has reformed a lot but still has work to do".

The European Council has announced that it has granted Ukraine candidate status for membership of the European Union. In order to join the EU, Kiev has undertaken numerous reforms. But, as political science professor Dorota Dakowska points out, there is still a long way to go. https://www.lemonde.fr/international/video/2022/06/24/pour-integrer-l-ue-kiev-a-beaucoup-reforme-mais-a-encore-du-travail_6131885_3210.html

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Observatory of cultural audiences and practices - Sciences et société 

AMU has been awarded €250,000 for the creation of the Observatoire des publics et des pratiques de la culture- Sciences et Société, a project to be carried out entirely by the Mesopolhis laboratory! Under the scientific coordination of Professor Sylvia Girel, the creation of this quantitative, qualitative, exploratory and interdisciplinary evaluation system, designed and developed by teacher-researchers...

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Welcome to Olga Gold - Associate Professor at Odessa National University

Mesopolhis is honoured to welcome Olga Gold, a Ukrainian professor from Odessa National University. Olga Gold is a specialist in social philosophy and her work focuses on religious, transnational and linguistic issues. We would like to extend a warm welcome to her.

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Podcast. MigraphoneSylvie Mazzella's presentation

Migraphone is a podcast about migration produced by migrants. Once a month, Ekat and his team invite other migrants, activists and researchers to talk about migration. Migraphone is about polyphonic narratives, real-life stories and shared analyses, based on personal experiences and shared experiences with other migrants.

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