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Making Electoral Truth. National Controversies and Global Circulations – VERELECT
This project aims to analyse in a comparative and transnational perspective the making of “political truth” as the publicly expressed concord regarding the rules of political competition and, consequently, the electoral results. Denouncing irregularities is at the heart of political competition in m
Generations and Gender Survey in Taiwan and France – GGS-Europe-Asia
East Asia is home to some of the lowest fertility rates in the world. At the macro level, many governments are concerned about the potential impacts of such low fertility on their economies, population sustainability, and broader aspects of society. At the micro level, evidence suggests that many in
Communal Solidarities. Mutual aid networks of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish minorities and diasporas (17th-18th century) – SOLIDAMIN
"Pour toi, Arménie..." (For you, Armenia...). In France, this refrain recalls the surge of solidarity that swept through Europe after the 1988 Spitak earthquake: on the initiative of a famous member of the Armenian diaspora, funds were collected and sent to the other side of the continent for distri
Land conflicts on fronts of expansion (Brazilian Amazonia): violence, expulsions and political domination – CONTER
Pioneer agricultural regions in Brazilian Amazonia are characterized by endless disputes about land and natural resources, which increases social inequalities, economic segregation, and political subjection of the rural poor and ethnic minorities to the dominant groups. Rather than a mass of individ
Push and pull factors to the involvement of young female physicians in medical academic careers: global study and focus on gender issues – PULWAR
Observing a decline of interest in academic careers in medicine, both in France and internationally, this research focuses on the factors underlying career choices made by young physicians. We suspect that the decline in medical academia may be in part due to an insufficient recruitment of women tha
Grey zones and Territories: transformation of work and the emerging figure of Platform Worker. A France-Brazil comparison – REGREYZandCo
This project pursues themes developed by researchers with extensive experience collaborating in research projects. Through the prism of a circumscribed empirical object in the two national contexts – ride-sharing drivers and delivery workers whose work is intermediated by digital platforms, their wo
Rebuilding the World, Society, and Human Identity (1939-1958): The Global Perspective of the Vatican Archives – GLOBALVAT
The GLOBALVAT project seeks to access data of exceptional value to history and the social sciences – namely, the Vatican archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, opened in 2020 – and to harness it as a resource for twentieth-century world history. While the opening of these archives has attract
Inequalities and Democratic Participation in the European Union’s Neighbourhood – INTEND
Abstract Wider research context Understanding how citizens can contribute to solving problems related to different forms of inequality is one of the most demanding questions of our time. INTEND aims to assess how participation in the policy process transforms civil society and how civil society r
Managing Privilege: The royal general Farms in France and Europe (1664-1794) – FermGe
The project FermeGé aims to study the impact of a discriminatory but rational tax- organization (1664-1794) on modern French territories and societies. It identifies the functional dynamics of an institution rooted in a culture of privilege, and hence Inequality, but just as much in an enlightened a
Thinking Race, Fighting Racism: African American Intellectual, Political, and Social Antiracist Mobilizations in the United States and Abroad (late 18th-early 21st century) – TACTICS
Our project proposes a renewed history of the strategies set up by African Americans and their allies to fight racial injustice since the late 18th century. Within a long-term framework, the interdisciplinary team will undertake historical research focused on African American antiracist mobilization
Wealth Inequality and Demographic Events – WIDE
Wealth inequality has increased over the last decades in France. Recent studies have also documented an increasing gender wealth gap. But most studies on wealth inequality analyze cross-sectional wealth inequality; they do not document how wealth changes throughout life. Wealth accumulation is re
Before the age of three : gendered socialization within family – sogenre
Our project focuses - with a sociological perspective - on the processes of gendered socialization of children between ages 0 to 3. In a national and international context, where gender inequalities are a subject of disagreement and argument, documenting how gendered socialization is objectively bui
Historical Political Economy of World War 2 in France – POLECOWW2
The purpose of this interdisciplinary project is to study the socio-demographic, economic, and political consequences of the World War II in France. To this end, we will use historical quantitative data, and methods from both political science and economics. Distinguishing short-term and long-term i
Access to Justice and Defense before High Courts. A collective history of French High Court Lawyers – Avoconseils
Studies on inequalities in access to the law and to justice have always neglected access to the French high courts (Conseil d'Etat, Cour de Cassation), which have nevertheless been the source of major decisions in the development of French law. "Avocats aux conseils" have had a monopoly on represent
Philosophy of inheritance : what normative foundations for a fair regulation of inheritance? – PHILHERIT
PHILHERIT is a philosophical and interdisciplinary research project (covering the fields of the history of ideas, political science, economics, and law) which focuses on the inheritance institution. It aims to explore the relationship between inheritance and social justice by studying the different
The repressive law and jurisprudence under the gender's prism (French revolution-21st century) – HLJPGenre
The HLJPGENRE project proposes to analyze the social relations of sex and sexualities existing in the repressive legal and judicial systems since the Revolution until today (mainly criminal law, but also public law, commercial law, labor law, family law in their repressive dimension). Its ambition i
To count in a colonial situation. French Africa (1830-1962) – COCOLE
Counting in a colonial situation. Crossing disciplinary approaches and scales of analysis, the project studies the production of statistics in the African territories of the French empire, from the beginning of the 19th century to the independence of the 1960s. It provides information on colonial
Inequalities, Radicalities and Women’s Citizenries: Plural Islamic Religiosities in the Maghreb /Muslim West Africa Space – RIMA
Led by IMAF (UMR 8171/243) with 3 scientific partners (ICAO Chair/UQAM/Canada; IFAN/Dakar, Senegal; and Kyoto Seika University/Japan) the RIMA project brings together 11 researchers from Africa (Mali, Ivory Cost, Senegal, Marocco), North America, Asia and Europe. In a pluridisciplinary perspective (
Financial fragmentation and inequalities in the Eurozone – FFIE
The Eurozone has experienced growth in economic inequalities for several decades, likely worsened by the Covid19 crisis. Financial and banking segmentation contribute to this dynamic by creating unequal financing and income opportunities across and within countries, as well as across households and
Castrati: Otherness Experiences in Enlightenment Europe – CastrAlter
The programme aims to analyse the place of Italian castrati in the fabrication of otherness in the Europe of the Enlightenment. Many normative discourses postulate that their castration produces a «gender disorder«, as it would cause both physical and moral effeminacy, which could also influence the
International migration of young self-employed minors. Migration of young African minors to Europe: Transnationalization and process of early empowerment. – MIJMA
The international migration of young and autonomous minors (unaccompanied minors or MNA in France), which the "Unaccompanied Minors" Mission (MMNA) has emphasized in its reports since its creation in 2013, remains an object that is difficult to classify scientifically and complex to address politica
Equality principle, voting and constitutional decision making – Isovote
Constitutional judges play a fundamental role in contemporary democracies and, in particular, with regard to the interpretation and implementation of the principles of equality. Since the beginning of the 1970s, with the famous decision on taxation ex officio, the French Constitutional Council has p
Alter-citizens in the Middle East. Inventing resistance in times of violence – IMAGIN-E
Citizen alternatives have emerged in the Middle East over the last decade in situations of overt or latent conflict, of crisis characterized by various forms of violence. In such circumstance states are either absent or contested because they are viewed as failing, corrupt or too authoritarian. IMAG
Children in decolonisation: forced migrations and individual construction (France – 1945-1980) – EN-MIG
The EN-MIG project focuses on the forced migrations of children from different parts of the collapsing French colonial empire, first and foremost in Indochina, Algeria, Madagascar, but also Africa and areas that had been decolonised without achieving independence (like the overseas territories). Thi
UNEQUALCITIZEN – UNEQUALCITIZEN
We have long known that citizens are not truly equal: the more affluent, the more educated and the more socially integrated participate more intensively and are more likely to see their preferences implemented in public policy. Despite the renewed interest in democracy in intellectual debate and ins
The New EU instruments for the Protection of the Rule of Law: Towards a Techno-managerial Strategy? – MEDROI
Today, Europe faces a “crisis of values”. This crisis is related to the numerous challenges the European Union (“EU”) has faced in recent years – such as the sovereign debt crisis, the security crisis linked to the threat of terrorism, and the migration crisis. It has been characterized by a systemi
Governing the Living, Controlling Human Reproduction. (Post)colonial Trajectories of Eugenics – EUGENE
How did eugenics, which posits an ontological inequality between individuals, come to find itself embedded in the universalist thought of the modern state? Instead of being banished after Nazism used it to murderous ends, the reference to eugenics has witnessed a number of reconfigurations and endur
Challenging the hegemonic order: the Israeli case examined – CHOICE
The general objective of CHOICE is to analyze the hegemonic/counter-hegemonic dialectics operating in Israel today. It offers to do so by studying the wide range of counter-hegemonic discourses and activities circulated and performed by Israeli Jews as well as the institutional and non-institutional