International audience

This day was organised by CAS members Nathalie Dessens and Anne Stefani, EA 801, University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail. Opening/Opening is certainly subjective from the outset that Anne Stefani starts the day, describing the reasons for her interest, when she is not herself a activist, what political...

How does the ‘(sur) provenance’ of a party stand? What is the interest of this kind of question? Going through a change of scale, the observation highlights a conventional, almost mechanical marking and shows that the grip of mistralien activism in this field is complicated by internal divisions con...

For a trade union delegate, ‘campaigning on a daily basis’ takes place on multiple fronts. It is also at this operational level that the challenges of the militant ‘organisational work’ that this article specifically addresses. He reported on this on the basis of the results of a wide-ranging resear...

Hier, at 12 p.m., we closed the online votes for July for the election of the book for the month of August. The reasons for organising this informal vote, on the networks, and as a new entry into the diversity and richness of Hypothesis, combine user-friendliness, exploration and discovery first, va...

In December 1999, at the turn of the century, when thousands of demonstrators from all over the world invaded streets in Seattle in the United States to protest against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference, alterglobalism has a revolution. The first actions against neoliberal globalisation at...

International audience Based on the ethno-sociological studies conducted by Pierre Bourdieu between the late 1950s and the early sixties on war-driven Algeria, this article analyses critically the notion, widely held by both the media and academia, that Pierre Bourdieu's public interventions on the...

National audience The experience of the collection of knowledge/action reveals the wealth and originality of the analyses proposed by critical intellectuals. However, they, who are more familiar with the description and explanation of the real situation than with the preparation of programmes, are n...

To question the effects of repression on engagement, this article analyses a type of ‘post-repression’ militant trajectory: former left-wing activists who became, after 1980, random executives. The originality of these trajectories is their ‘median’ nature: neither disengagement nor radicalisation,...

For the fifth episode of ‘listening to Japan (s)’, we receive CHUJO Chiharu, Maître de Langue at INALCO, member of the Institut d’Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculture (IETT) in Lyon and an external member of the French Institute of Research on East Asia, a specialist in political activism and femi...

Is the identity of the group/journal “Socialism or Barbarism” intellectual or political? Analysis of the review based on in-depth interviews makes it possible to decide in favour of the second hypothesis; however, the subsequent development of former members who have become intellectuals distorts th...

This research questions the mechanisms and the form of associative commitment in consumer organisations in Valparaíso (Chile) and in Moselle (France). The point is to understand how the complex connexion between the will to form forces of opposition and the need to technicize their action so much th...

The Napitan song is recognised as one of the most important repertoires of songs in the world and as one of the very first examples of popular music. However, in the 1960s when the young Napitan musicians tried to absorb and develop counter-cultural trends throughout Italy at that time, such a reper...

Katia Geins and Emilie Cadiou offer a theatre reading of ‘France first’ on Saturday, written and played only once in 1943. In prison. He was given the words, put into music by Hippolyte Lam, of ‘Debout’, the song of patriots imprisoned in Eysses. Paul Deguilhem left other traces of his passage behin...

This paper analyses Manitoba's experiment with final offer selection for the purpose of clarifying the roots of the conflict it has generated.

International audience

The museological and gender research is mostly emerging in the American and English context. They are part of a activism which, since the 1970s, denounces the lack of (re) knowledge of women in cultural and artistic circles. Think in particular of Linda Nochlin’s article on women artists in 1971 and...

Based on a field survey carried out in a local CIMADE group located in an average city in the province, this chapter questions the concept of professionalisation with regard to a specific form of work that is usually invisible: advocacy and voluntary work. The observations show that the militant wor...

One of the most crucial questions posed by German social history after the Second World War is probably the radicalisation process that led the German elites to consent to, participate in and even inspire Nazi politics.

The French presidential campaign in 2012 was marked by a variety of actions offered to internet users by campaign teams or initiated by internet users themselves to engage online and offline in favour of individual candidates. The profusion of these practices questions the techniques and concepts ne...

for some 15 years in France, a new mode of humanitarian action has emerged. How does this kind of engagement renew the old activism where it is the closest who is supported? The survey, which involves about 100 interviews and the observation of meetings, restores the paradoxes and dilemmas faced by...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe personal archives that historians work have a history; it is often the case that these documents are the product of a past injunction or collection; archives from different fields are introduced and presented here: medicine, prison and activism; three documents, the history...