Johanna Eve Siméant

• Phd
• Professor (Full) at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris

Déclenchée par une hausse du prix du carburant, la révolte des Gilets jaunes est rapidement devenue un vaste mouvement d'opposition radicale à l'État, nourri de nombreuses revendications contre les injustices sociales et économiques. Dès le 17 novembre 2018, elle se fait connaître par des moyens d'action inhabituels: occupation de milliers de ronds...

As formas transnacionais de ação podem demandar estratégias empíricas e teóricas específicas visto que remetem, ao menos em parte, a práticas e configurações em que uma superposição rotineira sociedade/Estado é ainda mais problemática do que uma pesquisa restrita às fronteiras nacionais. O objetivo deste artigo é expor aquelas relativas à questão d...

The political sociology of the international, because it refers, at least in part, to practices and configurations in which the routine superposition of a society and a state is even more problematic than it already is when the investigation is confined within national borders, may call for the deployment of particular empirical and theoretical str...

Les sciences sociales se trouvent aujourd’hui confrontées à une série d’injonctions et de régulations au nom de l’éthique, de la science ouverte et de la protection des données. Malgré les bonnes intentions affichées, ces évolutions parfois très différentes finissent, du fait de leur combinaison, par restreindre l’autonomie de la recherche quant à...

Cet entretien survient quelques mois à peine après la libération de Roland Marchal des prisons iraniennes, et alors que notre collègue Fariba Adelkhah est toujours détenue. Il est notamment l’occasion de revenir sur la façon dont les institutions de recherche – à travers certaines de leurs collaborations institutionnelles (armée, diplomatie, baille...

A hunger strike can be defined as a public fast, combined with a claim aimed at confronting an adversary or an authority that is likely to satisfy this claim. Most of the time it endangers the health, and sometimes the life, of the hunger striker. British suffragettes and Irish nationalists are the two groups who had the most significant input into...

En clôture du colloque qui est à l’origine de ce dossier, nous avions demandé à des chercheurs d’horizons disciplinaires et de générations différentes de revenir sur leur rencontre avec les travaux d’Yves Dezalay et d’évoquer dans le cadre d’un échange retranscrit ci-dessous, la manière dont chacun d’entre eux avait pu mobiliser, prolonger, nuancer...

The growing attention paid to the relational spaces of collective action is good news. It owes a lot to the legacy of interactionism and allows us to more accurately grasp the relevant contexts of protest that cannot be subsumed solely under big contexts such as political opportunity structure, economy, and so on. One can however worry about the ne...

This paper analyses the transformations of international intervention in Mali since the crisis that burst in March 2012. It shows that the crisis in Mali has generated interesting debates about international intervention in Mali and debates within the Bamako-based donor community in 2012 and 2013. Attempts at stopping doing “business as usual” were...

In Mali, the narrative of a civil division between the pro- and anticoup coalitions, although not entirely groundless, uncritically lumped together heterogeneous historical movements, dynamic political stances and involvements. More disturbingly, it promulgated the stereotypes of the modern and democratic Malian state versus regressive and/or conse...

Research on social movements has historically focused on the traditional weapons of the working class, especially labour strikes and street demonstrations-but everyday actions, such as eating or singing, which can also be turned into a means of protest, have yet to be fully explored. An interdisciplinary and comparative history of these modes of ac...

Research on social movements has historically focused on the traditional weapons of the working class, especially labor strikes and street demonstrations-but everyday actions, such as eating or singing, which can also be turned into a means of protest, have yet to be fully explored. Originally published as La gr ève de la faim by Johanna Siméant an...

A Humanitarian Organisation: Anti-Bureaucratic and Self-Critical - Fox Renée C., Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) - Volume 55 Issue 3 - Johanna Siméant

Transnational social movement studies have long neglected the way activists from the South, and particularly from Africa, have participated in World Social Forum processes. Alterglobal activists have also been accused of neglecting or dominating southern voices. The organization of the WSF in Nairobi was seen as an opportunity to make African voice...

Based on a collective survey done at the World Social Forum in Dakar in 2011, the book includes a quantitative survey on more than 1000 participants and more ethnographic approaches. It addresses in particular methodological issues and what is at stake on studying transnational activism in Africa, and the effects of the development world on it .

Guerre, diaspora, ONG… Les objets, espaces et discours de l’international bouleversent les approches et appellent à des méthodes d’enquête spécifiques. C’est le propos de ce guide, outil pour chercheurs et étudiants qui voudraient s’aventurer en sociologie de l’international. Un ouvrage didactique et accessible, à la manière du Métier de sociologue...

This article explores some aspects of the renewed interest in moral economy and draws attention to the pitfalls if the concept is used too loosely. Edward P. Thompson and James C. Scott's model is examined to see how their elaboration of moral economy can be used to link food, popular indignation, reinvention of tradition, and relationships to the...

How did advocacy become a core term in the vocabulary of international rights? Examining how the term is used, the reasons for its success, and the practices it designates constitutes a useful tool for analyzing certain transformations underway in the world known as “international civil society.” The style of promoting causes and interests, and the...

Avant que le putsch du 22 mars 2012 ne fasse voler en éclat cette image, le Mali était ce pays considéré comme exemplaire du fait de ses institutions démocratiques et d’une société civile perçue comme ayant contribué à la chute du régime autoritaire en 1991. C’était aussi ce pays où la protestation était désignée depuis lors comme quelque chose d’e...

Protesting/Mobilizing/Not consenting. On some avatars of the sociology of mobilizations applied to the African Continent This article examines the recent development of research inspired by the sociology of mobilizations on the African continent. In contrast to the new celebration of the “opening up” of African studies, and despite the interest in...

The sociology of transnational activism and of the Global Justice Movement have paid scarce attention to Southern transnationalisations. A good way of understanding the material and symbolic logics that underlie such processes is to study the way Southern activists participate in transnational events. Based on a collective ethnographic survey condu...

By focusing on the Malian capital, and in the short term, this article examines different aspects of the crisis that go beyond the rebellion in the North or the dereliction of Malian political institutions. After showing what contributed to the rapid delegitimation of president ATT at the beginning of 2012, we consider the opportunities opened by t...

The short term of legitimacy : positions, rumors and perceptions, January-September 2012 in Bamako By focusing on the Malian capital, and in the short term, this article examines different aspects of the crisis that go beyond the rebellion in the North or the dereliction of Malian political institutions. After showing what contributed to the rapid...

Hunger strike can be defined as a public fast, combined with a claim aimed at confronting an adversary or an authority that is likely to satisfy this claim. Most of the time it endangers the health, and sometimes the life, of the hunger striker. British suffragettes and Irish nationalists are the two groups who had the most significant input into i...

Localizing the Field of the International Transnational forms of activism partially involve practices and configurations in which the superposition between society and the state is even more problematic than it already is when action is considered “local”. Their observation can therefore involve specific empirical and theoretical strategies. This a...

This critique reviews an especially active field of research during the last 20 years in France: the sociology of activism. In this current of sociology, a new interactionist paradigm has emerged that takes into account activists careers and the process of becoming an activist. This critique focuses on how the idea of the "rewards" of activism has...

Porto Alegre, ano 13, n o 28, set./dez. 2011, p. 200-255 SOCIOLOGIAS 200 DOSSIÊ 1 Tradução de Patrícia C. R. Reuillard (UFRGS). 2 Artigo originalmente publicado em Sociologie du travail, Volume 51, n° 1, p. 97-125, janvier-mars 2009, sob o título "Décloisonner la sociologie de l'engagement militant. Note critique sur quelques tendances récentes des...

In this interview, the historian John Lonsdale, a specialist on Kenya, discusses the source of his vocation and his interest in the history of nationalism and the formation of the state in Africa. An heir to British Marxism and a proponent of studying the history of African societies « from the ground up », Lonsdale is attentive to the way popular...

Résumé Dans cet entretien, l’historien John Lonsdale, spécialiste du Kenya, évoque les origines de sa vocation et de son intérêt pour l’histoire du nationalisme et de la formation de l’État en Afrique. Héritier du marxisme britannique et partisan d’une histoire « par le bas » des sociétés africaines ; attentif à la « vulgarisation » de l’État et de...

What are the researchers doing today when they study social movements? How to stir up sociological imagination in the light of a threefold threatening routinisation - of research objects, of interpretation patterns and of methodologies? We are not bent here in promoting any kind of "methodologism", nor do we intend to advocate "one best methodologi...

Observing Mobilizations What are researchers doing today when they study social movements? How to stir up sociological imagination in the light of a threefold threatening routinisation – of research objects, of interpretation patterns and of methodologies? We are not bent here in promoting any kind of “methodologism”, nor do we intend to advocate “...

Résumé Par sa démarche, exemplaire d’une forme d’unité des sciences sociales, l’intérêt de l’ouvrage d’André Loez dépasse le champ de l’histoire de 14-18 pour contribuer de façon majeure à la sociologie des pratiques protestataires. Ces dernières n’ont pas forcément l’idéologie (ici le pacifisme) comme moteur. Leur sens émerge au cours de l’action....

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What do researchers do nowadays when they study social movements? How can one stimu­ late the sociological imagination to counter a threefold threat of routinization—of research objects, inter­ pretation schemas, and methodologies? We do not argue here for any kind of “methodologism,” nor do we put forward “one best methodological way” to study mob...

What are researchers doing today when they study social movements? How to stir up sociological imagination in the light of a threefold threatening routinisation - of research objects, of interpretation patterns and of methodologies? We are not bent here in promoting any kind of "methodologism", nor do we intend to advocate "one best methodological...

This article is a critical survey of a field of research that for 20 years has been particularly active in France and is once again gaining momentum: the sociology of activist commitment. An outcome of this sociological current was the inter-actionist paradigm, i.e. how activists’ careers are embarked upon and evolve. The notion of how to reward ac...

Penser les mouvements sociaux Conflits sociaux et contestations dans les sociétés contemporaines Sous la direction de OLIVIER FILLIEULE, ÉRIC AGRIKOLIANSKY ET ISABELLE SOMMIER Penser les mouvements sociaux Conflits sociaux et contestations dans les sociétés contemporaines L A SOCIOLOGIE DES MOUVEMENTS SOCIAUX constitue aujourd'hui un champ bien dis...

Résumé: L’article vise à montrer les effets de la socialisation catholique chez les volontaires et salariés humanitaires, en dépassant la seule question de la foi pour envisager celle de la formation de dispositions, de compétences et d’appétences. En analysant la prégnance de la socialisation catholique, puis les héritages pratiques du catholicism...

The article aims to show the effects of catholic socialization on humanitarian volunteers and employees. While such socialization appears to be a matter of faith, it also consists in the formation of certain aptitudes, abilities and appetencies. The author analyses the significance of catholic socialization, examining the practical traditions of Ca...

This critique reviews an especially active field of research during the last 20 years in France: the sociology of activism. In this current of sociology, a new interactionist paradigm has emerged that takes into account activists’ careers and the process of becoming an activist. This critique focuses on how the idea of the “rewards” of activism has...

Résumé de numéro en numéro, portraits des mouvements dans le monde