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Coordonné par Ghislaine Gallenga et Jérôme Soldani
Coordination éditoriale (au sein d'Émulations) par Olivia Legrip-Randriambelo et Ghislain Leroy
Health policies are never exclusively sanitary or economic, but are anchored in systems of representations and in a way of thinking about the autonomy of the person. These models are followed by physical and dietary practices which may contradict the principles of health on a biomedical level or what is expected in terms of biological effects. Independently of knowing what a healthy body is, this special issues of Emulations questions what do this government of bodies and healthy body models tell us about societies.
Coordinated by Fabien Knittel, Nadège Mariotti and Pascal Raggi
Editorial coordination (Émulations) : Cédric Passard and Quentin Verreycken
Thinking about and studying work in contemporary history often involves investigating the heart of the concentrated factory. But the concentrated urban factory is not the only place where work takes place. Craft or industrial work exists in the countryside as much as in the city, in the field as much as in the workshop or mine. It is this work outside the factory that interests us in this dossier, which provides an opportunity for a chronological extension of the investigations into the worlds of work on the fringes of rural and urban areas in recent periods, while at the same time extending or renewing the work already undertaken on the nineteenth century. In the workshop, in the fields, in the home, in the mine, using old skills in conjunction with new techniques adapted to their environment, the men and women of the rural worlds have had individual and collective experiences of their occupations that the articles in this issue of Émulations help to shed light on.
Coordinated by Milena Doytcheva and Yvan Gastaut
Editorial coordination (Émulations) : François Romijn and Romain Tiquet
Drawing on empirical, methodological and theoretical questions raised by the conceptual network of Race, Racism, and Racialization (3Rs), this special issue offers to renew their critical examination from a deliberately transnational perspective, bridging in particular French and international bodies of race critical scholarship and research. Defining - qualifying - researching - (d)enunciating 3Rs then forms a broad problematic scansion that maps out the course of our investigation, against the backdrop of rising white nationalisms.
Coordinated by Céline Mavrot, Cédric Passard and Grégoire Lits
Exactly 50 years ago, the sociologist Stanley Cohen developed the concept of moral panics in his book Folk Devils and Moral Panics. It allowed him to analyse, from an interactionist perspective, how fights between young people in a second-rate English seaside resort around 1964 were considerably amplified by the press and the mass media and eventually led to a strengthening of social control. Since then, this concept has spread widely in different fields of social science (sociology, media studies, political science) but also in the public sphere. As with other concepts at the crossroads of the scientific and political-media fields (populism, conspiracy, etc.), the vagueness surrounding its use and the multiple recuperations of which it is the object raise questions about its nature, its heuristic interest, and the conditions of its scientific use. This issue of Emulations therefore proposes to take a reflective look at this notion, its topicality and its relevance for the social sciences.
This double issue of Emulations. Revue de sciences sociales invites us to construct our pedagogical practices of training in fieldwork as an object of research. The originality of the contributions gathered here is to propose accounts of singular experiences of this teaching in a plurality of situations: field courses based on collective surveys, classroom teaching in social science courses or even training in survey in professional schools. Despite this diversity, the twelve articles all describe collective and reflective teaching and learning practices. They look back at the construction of spaces for students to speak out, from which inductive teaching is invented. This issue also examines the effects of reforms on the ways in which social science research is taught, whether through the prism of a change in the curriculum of an academic course or that of the universitarisation of professional training. By sometimes taking the risk of revealing the difficulties and limits of their teaching, the authors show the pedagogical and heuristic interest of this type of training and participate in the re-articulation of research and teaching.
Coordinated by Samuel Dolbeau and Martin Dutron
Editorial coordination (Émulations) par Aurore Loretti
This thematic issue of Emulations. Revue de sciences sociales proposes to return to the question of the relationship between Catholicism and medical practices in the 20th and 21st centuries. The four articles examine this relationship using sociological and historical methods. The contributions by Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée and Jean-Victor Elie focus their analyses on actors, in this case Catholic health care workers, who are confronted with the challenges posed by the logic of secularisation inherent to the first part of the 20th century. The articles by Anthony Favier, Marion Maudet and Cécile Thomé focus on a study of Catholic discourses, using biomedical arguments, on issues related to the politics of intimacy: homosexuality and contraception. At the intersection of studies on contemporary Catholicism and on medical practices, and outside their own interests, issues relating to phenomena as diverse as politicisation, professionalisation, mutations of authority and agency are also discussed.
Coordinated by Laure Carbonnel, Kamina Diallo et Lamine Doumbia
Editorial coordination for Émulations) byCédric Passard
The fact of associating is at the foundation of society, but a particular form tends to impose itself: the association that we call here bureaucratic, which refers to a law, which is constituted by statutes registered by a state administration, or which simply borrows practices from the bureaucratic imagination. What characterises the bureaucratic association? To answer this question, this thematic issue draws on empirical studies based on the African continent, where different grouping modalities have been described and analysed. The plurality of situations presented in this issue, both from the point of view of associations (student, religious, cultural, charitable) and countries (Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia), aims to bring out shared bureaucratic dimensions rather than starting from a bureaucratic model from which one would depart according to cultural specificities. This issue thus intends to reintegrate the bureaucratic imaginary into the heart of the reflection on associations in Africa, in their foundation and mutation, their relationship, their functioning, as well as the variety of forms of collectives.
Far from being a purely biological data, health is deeply shaped by the social order and the power struggles, which structure our societies. This double issue causes us to renew the perspective on this well-known phenomenon in social sciences and to deepen our understanding of health-related social inequalities and discriminations. Focused on a variety of topics – patient access and triage in emergency rooms, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, doctor-patient relationship, care refusals, pregnancy monitoring and birth control pathways – the contributions gathered here draw on ethnographic methods and bring to light the interplay of formal and informal processes, structural and organizational mechanisms, as well as the interactions of various actors and spaces, whereby inequalities are produced.
Coordinated by Audrey Lenoël, Anda David and Annalisa Maitilasso
Editorial coordination for Émulations by Olivia Legrip-Randriambelo
Whether it is considered as the completion of the migratory journey or as one of the options available to migrants, return is central to the mobility project. Once a neglected subject of study, there has been a multiplication of perspectives on return migration in the various disciplines of the social sciences, shedding light on the experiences and strategies of migrants, the effects of return on origin societies and the mechanisms and effects of forced repatriation and of public policies assisting "voluntary" return. This special issue seeks to bring out the richness of a multidisciplinary approach to return with articles adopting quantitative and qualitative approaches, and questioning the subject from various angles in dialogue with each other, in a variety of geographical contexts.
Coordinated by Hélène Jeanmougin and Emanuele Giordano.
Editorial coordination for Émulations by Romain Tiquet.
The appropriation of the urban night by economic, social and cultural activities has experienced an unprecedented acceleration in the 20th century. The growing interest of the social sciences in this field of research has led to a better understanding of the dynamics characterizing the evolution of nocturnal space-time in different parts of the globe. This issue highlights the need for further exploration of this complex space-time. By bringing together contributions from different disciplines and geographical regions, it proposes to link global trends and local specificities that (re)shape the urban night in the contemporary city. These contributions are presented and articulated around four axes: places and differentiated uses of night-time practices, attractiveness and conflicts, nocturnal inequalities and methodologies of night surveys.
What can the question of the margins tell us about kinship? Conversely, how do studies on kinship contribute to shedding light on the relationship of the margins to the norm? How are the notions of margins, confines, borders or limits understood and operated according to time and geographical spaces? Through five original articles and a double interview, this issue sheds light on the diversity of meanings of these notions by describing the practices, representations and norms associated with them. It is an invitation to reexamine classic anthropological themes such as the alliance, the relationship between the living and the dead, gender and filiation.
Coordinated by Natália Frozel Barros and Alessio Motta.
Editorial coordination for Emulations by Lionel Francou.
Thomas Crombie Schelling, an American strategic advisor, has influenced his country's foreign policy, as well as many social science researchers. In France, his work provided decisive stones for individualist approaches, for the theory of the strategic actor of Crozier and Friedberg, but also for the sociology of political crises of Dobry. This influence was mainly exerted through occasional touches and conceptual contributions. These incursions reflect Schelling's project, which was not the creation of a theoretical framework for thinking about the entire functioning of a society, but rather a succession of fruitful ideas and bridges between the great phenomena and moments of history and the most mundane everyday coordination situations. Three years after Schelling's death, this issue of Emulations returns to the contributions of his work and mobilises them to open up new avenues for understanding the small and large strategies behind the decisions taken in an administration, an assembly, a coup d'état, a collective mobilisation...
Coordinated by Fanny Barnabé, Julien Bazile, Rémi Cayatte. Editorial coordination for Emulations by Céline Mavrot.
Video games allow us both to question and understand our relationship with contemporary societies. This “new media” – already decades old – is able to represent and address societal phenomena and current events through specific mechanisms (ludic, interactive, immersive, etc.) that still remain to be fully explored and understood. This issue of Émulations pursues this goal and tackles the vast question of the relationship between games and society in 6 articles coming from different disciplinary fields (sociology, game studies, aesthetics, etc.). The contributions of this issue are summarized in an overview written by Dominic Arsenault and prolonged by an interview with Sébastien Genvo, both professors of game studies.
Coordinated by Frédérique Giraud. Editorial coordination for Emulations by Romain Tiquet.
Multiple and unequal childhoods are built at school from the earliest stages of schooling. This special issue of Émulations proposes to enter the school’s black box to shed light and understand the ways in which actors in the educational worlds shape plural pedagogical forms through their practices and representations of childhood. The challenge is to contribute to studying the ways in which educational institutions, differently according to their characteristics and the concrete practices of the actors, think of children and thus build plural and unequal childhoods. If the school produces a specific vision of childhood in this way, it is because it has the mission to educate children and still educates the vast majority of children of school age today. Pupils learn ways of seeing and acting according to the different social relationships they establish and the (re)actions of the different significant others who socialize them.
Coordinated by Adrien Mazières-Vaysse, Giulia Mensitieri, Cyprien Tasset. Editorial coordination for Émulations by Olivia Legrip-Randriambelo.
The notion of precarity has been particularly developed by French sociology. But it is involved, especially since the beginning of the 21st century, in international circulations from where it returns charged with a constellation of meaning transformed by its various appropriations. It can describe the contemporary failures of a disintegrating welfare state; question the transformations of subjectivities created by new work arrangements; question work in the sphere of production, but also of reproduction and today of subsistence. This issue aims to take advantage of these circulations and this multiplicity of meanings to better understand the place of the idea of precarity in contemporary critical social sciences. In addition to six original research articles, this issue includes two texts combining sociological interrogations and self-analysis, an interview with British researcher Angela McRobbie and a conclusion by Patrick Cingolani.
Coordinated by Marie-Cécile Frieden, Nils Graber, Meriem M’zoughi. Editorial coordination for Émulations by François Romijn.
"Chronic diseases" and "South" are terms that are rarely associated but which constitute the core of the reflections carried out within this special issue. The articles describe the experiences of actors - chronic patients, families, health care teams - and show the obstacles, constraints and adaptation strategies in fragile political and economic contexts, where the disarticulation and fragmentation of both national and global health policies are pointed out. The various texts question chronicity as such. Can this category be applied to countries with socio-cultural and structural realities far removed from those in which the concept was forged? Finally, these contributions reveal how the competitive plays between different knowledge or actors are part of a long temporality, are negotiated and renegotiated through time, in the face of doubts, uncertainties, conflicts, often linked to the crucial questions of social recognition of chronicity and care in an illness experience.
Coordonné par Vincent Houle, Solène Maillet et Guillemette Martin.
Coordination éditoriale (au sein d’Émulations) par Kevin Toffel.
This issue of Émulations tackles the concepts of "national" and "international". Through a multidisciplinary approach, it interrogates, deconstructs, examines and criticizes these concepts. How can we better understand the conceptual dichotomy between "national" and "international"? How can the tension between the two act as an epistemological basis to understand contemporary phenomena? The seven articles, as well as the interview that concludes this issue, offer numerous and varied answers to these questions. A rich and original dialogue is displayed, focusing on the multiple and complex interactions between international matters and national preoccupations, whether they are political, economic, social or cultural concerns. From Guatemala to Australia, and from Western Europe to South Korea, the contributions invite to a multi-situated reflection on this henceforth tension between national interests and international matters.
Coordinated by David Pichonnaz and Kevin Toffel.
This issue of Émulations aims to reconnect with general sociology while focusing on a central issue in the sociology of professions and employment: the study of the representations of work and professional practices. Based on a dispositional analysis, it proposes an account of these representations and practices thanks to a study of workers’ trajectories. The contributions in this issue take an interest in the way dispositions acquired outside of the work sphere help shape careers, work representations as well as professional practices, and show the importance of connecting work studies to the social stance of the agents. Exploring diverse contexts of socialization, these articles assert that the analysis of earlier socialization offers much to work studies by contributing to the renewal of sociology of professions approaches.
Coordinated by Pamela Millet-Mouity and Frédérick Madore
This issue of Émulations aims to shed a multidisciplinary light on the new realities induced by the arrival of digital media in the religious sectors of Subsaharian Africa. Studying new fields, the authors analyzed the use of digital media by various religious groups and charismatic figures of different faiths in five countries (Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo. Each contribution questions the multiple tinkerings, ramifications, circulations and conflicts at work in the “African religious” in the digital age, considering discourses and representations as well as practices. This issue also features an interview with Rosalind J. Hackett, pioneer in Religion and Media in Africa research, and a conclusion from Katrien Pype. This special issue is thus meant as an original contribution to a region that has been relatively left out in Digital Religion Studies.
Coordinated by Myriam Joël et Josselin Tricou. Editorial coordination (in Émulations) Isabelle Jabiot.
This issue of Émulations intends to serve as a methodological crossroad between sexuality and religion. One can admit there is no lack of questioning sexuality in the field of sociology of religion, and reciprocally, but if these two topics have often been analysed jointly, the buck of such analyses usually shows a deficiency regarding methodology. Excepting occasional mentions of reluctance to discuss their sexual behaviours with unfamiliar people, researchers barely address practical and ethical questions that have arisen during their investigations, when they don’t simply evict them out of their work. This blind spot raises questions in a context of legitimized-again subjectivity in the now compulsory critical-analytical method. This deficiency is all the more disturbing as it is observed in two areas that are heavily invested with emotional, symbolic and bodily charges whose conjunction increase the necessity of addressing such subjectivity with objectivity.
Coordinated by Marie Campigotto, Rachel Dobbels et Elsa Mescoli with the collaboration of (in Émulations) Lionel Francou.
This thematic issue of Emulations questions the “at home” field practice, which raises many questions regarding methodological, epistemological, ethical, and political stakes, which the new generation of researchers of the “at-home” faces frequently. It explores the social contexts and the personal stances that lead some of them to carry “at-home” research, the consequences of such an orientation, the way this research is lead, its results and scientific validation, methodological and epistemological obstacle these researchers have to overcome, as well as how one enters or leaves the field, and the investigation relations. This issue offers a reflexive feedback on the ethnographic practices by analyzing heterogenous, concrete, and situated investigation situations in which three main aspects of field practice evolve and intimately intertwine: familiarity, alterity and commitment. The contributions gathered in this issue shed light on how the reflexivity inherent to ethnography operates when the context in which researchers works involves a proximity between them and their fields, thus allowing to inventory the singular trajectories that such research experience feedback creates.
Coordinated by Bernard Fusulier, Nathan Gurnet and Farah Dubois-Shaik in collaboration with (in Émulations) Anh Thy Nguyen.
This issue of Émulations questions, describes and analyzes the realities as well as the stakes of the doctoral cursus. The subject does not cover research topics or scientific practices, but aims to comprehend how university, as an institution and as a scene of scientific career, works, and to shed light on the researchers that it prepares, and who get through it a glimpse of the coveted professional horizon.
The contributions gather both theoretical researches, field investigations and comprehensive feedback on the doctoral research experience. This issue thus offers a plurality of points of view that contributes to the knowledge of the contemporary doctoral experience, from initiation to research to the acquisition of a title, without forgetting the pivotal step that is the doctoral thesis itself. By discussing the new regulations in terms of scientific policies, the growing internationalization of scientific activities, the difficulties of scientific careers and the professional insertion of PhD holders in and out of academia, this issue contributes to the analysis of the place and role of research and university in our society.
Coordinated by Ingreet Juliet Cano Castellanos, Marlène Degrémont and Arthur Laurent in collaboration with (in Émulations) Maximilien Cogels.
Environmental policies are the subject of a growing number of international agreements and civil society initiatives. Thus, renewable energy production, policies on energetic efficiency, forest management, resources exploitation, adaptation strategies and slowing of climate change seem to be at the heart of contemporary environmental stakes in an era when the exploitation of natural resources reaches its limits. Simultaneously, actors of many sizes emerge, or are immerged in a context characterized by a strong porosity between the local, supralocal and global levels. The contributions in this issue shed a new light on the transnational processes that arise from the meeting and the facing of actors and institutions, at state-level or not, in the production of public environmental policies. Drawing on field experiences in geographic, political and environmental contexts, the authors in this issue offer a detailed analysis of the socio-environmental dynamics and governance stakes, approached in their complexity.
Coordinated by Philipp Altmann, Deniz Günce Demirhisar and Jacob Mwathi Mati
Edited by (for Émulations) Maximilien Cogels.
The study of social movements in the social sciences took a new start after the waves of revolutionary disputes and the Occupy movements of our decade. The intuition at the beginning of this thematic issue is that our understanding of these movements is limited by the Eurocentric character of the categories and concepts forged to analyze them. It is also undeniable that many important social movements today are developing first in the South before becoming global. The coordinators of this issue of Emulations favor an approach to social movements from the South and by researchers from the South. This change of perspective is necessary to understand, with new intellectual tools, the dynamics of these movements that shape our common future. This thematic issue brings together empirical studies of the movements observed in Latin America, Africa and North America, hoping that these contributions could open a new theoretical horizon to understand our societies in motion.
This issue of Émulations has been supported by the Research Committee 47 (Social Classes and Social Movements) of the International Sociological Association and its platform "Open Movements: for a global and public sociology of social movements"Émulations is an international Open-Access peer-reviewed social sciences journal published by the University Press of Louvain (Belgium) that publishes four thematic issues every year. The journal has also three online-only sections: varia, book critique and interview.
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Last thematic issues
2022 - #42
Race, Racism, Racialization
2022 - #41
Moral Panics. 50 years after Stanley Cohen
2021 - #39-40
Teaching fieldwork. Transmit, experiment, experience
2021 - #38
Catholicism and medical practices. Socio-historical approaches (XXth-XXIst centuries)
2021 - #37
Associations and bureaucratisation: African perspectives
2020 - #35-36
Health, inequalities, discriminations
2020 - #34
Transnationalizing the return
2020 - #33
The urban night
2019 - #32
At the edges of kinship. Margins in contempory kinship studies
Published with financial support from the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS (Belgian National Science Foundation).
ISSN (electronic) : 1784-5734 - ISSN (paper) : 2030-5656.
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