Sylvie OctobreMinistère de la culture et de la communication · département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques
Sylvie Octobre
PhD in sociology
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We propose to guest-edit a special issue of Quaderni di sociologia devoted to exploring a topic that is not alien to the spirit our zeitgeist and that we believe we can grasp with the idea of new faces of obscurantism. Indeed, our future, disdained because it is unpredictable, unreliable, and straight-up unmanageable, is now pilloried and classifie...
Dear All,
We are pleased to invite you to join us at the occasion of the 10th Congress of the World Association for Hallyu Studies that will be held in Paris (26th-27th October 2023) and that is entitled: "Here, There, and Everywhere: Hallyu Made for and in the World"
Please do not hesitate to send us a proposal to
Vincenzo CICCHELLI: vincenzo...
Le rapport des enfants aux écrans suscite autant de suspicions que de
conseils éducatifs, insistant dans les deux cas sur les risques d’addictions,
de développements de pathologies ou de comportements déviants. Aux
paniques morales anciennes sur la télévision s’ajoutent désormais celles
qui portent sur le numérique.
Le présent travail prolonge de q...
Les enfants de moins de 6 ans et les écrans numériques : à chacun son rythme, d'après l'enquête Elfe Les recommandations en matière éducative prescrivent généralement de maintenir les enfants de moins de trois ans éloignés des écrans et d'accompagner très progressivement leur insertion dans leur quotidien dans les années qui suivent. La réalité, te...
In this paper, we examine how young adults who are consumers of K-Pop in three culturally diverse cities (Paris, Philadel-phia, and Manchester) reshape their symbolic boundaries to face social challenges. Analyzing data from 132 interviews, we show how young adults mainly confront social exclusion in Paris, fight racism in Philadelphia and deal wit...
his book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security- related crises. While these trends can be observed in numerous Western societies, France provides a unique case study of various anticosmopolitan and anti-Enlightenment movements shaping youth cond...
The third spirit is Homo culturalis. These young people are convinced that willfully ignoring the cultural, ethnical, and religious plurality of French society will only further entrench inequalities and discrimination, while merely propping up a hypocritical façade of universalism. They refer to an intermediate step between the individual and the...
Much ink has been spilled on the changing forms of political engagement among Youth compared to the traditional model of previous generations and which ensured the vitality of representative democracy in the postwar era. Democratic deconsolidation has taken root in the minds of certain young people, given that some are not just disappointed by the...
Stemmed from our interviews, we analyze four “spirits” among Young French people. The first is Homo nationalis, characterized by a strong resurgence of the nation-state political affiliation and of nationalism ideology. It encapsulates a number of fears that are pervasive: fear of an economic downturn, fear of a loss of values, fear of a dissolutio...
The fourth and last “spirit” is Homo pontifex, which is entirely focused on the universality of humankind, refusing to engage in the various identity wars. Seen from the higher vantage point that is humanity, all human beings hold rights, above and beyond their national affiliations. These cosmopolitan profiles all prioritize openness to others and...
In France, global crises have brought to the fore fault lines in public and intellectual debates, as well as in the political offer and party affiliations. These crises have also shaken public confidence in the ability of the nation-state to handle such challenges, with uncertainty becoming the horizon of expectation for younger generations. The ma...
The second spirit is Homo civicus, which gathers young people who do not believe that there are viable alternatives to the republican spirit, despite the crisis that the Republican model is going through, and the criticisms levied at it. Their attachment to the nation takes the form of a love of their own rather than a hatred of others and they pra...
Young French men and women are worried. This pessimism is symptomatic of the idea that French society does not offer young people any chance at success. The global crises that have rocked the French republican model, based on the welfare state and its associated conception of citizenship, have also shaped its youth in a way that differs from its Eu...
While most youth condemn the inequalities endemic to contemporary France, they disagree when it comes to the cause of these inequalities and whether or not the State should intervene to regulate the market and the economy more broadly. Some favor social-democratic solidarity, while others adhere to the principles of economic liberalism. The young m...
Uncertainty becomes fragmentation when, under the weight of global crises, the various transformations of French society engender a large-scale competition between winners and losers, especially between citizens and foreigners. The data exploited in this chapter illustrate how today’s younger generations experience various forms of fragmentation, p...
Young French people are facing a twofold crisis of social cohesion: on the one hand, they are witnessing the increasing inability of the French nation-state to regulate markets and ensure a decent life by redistributing wealth and fighting against inequalities; on the other hand, they are witnessing the crumbling of a national community that is no...
The question of freedom is a source of tension when it comes to its application in the private sphere. While a very limited number of young people take a strong position against the liberalization of social customs and values, most are in favor of this trend, though they may sometimes question the pace of change and reveal to be ambivalent. The int...
While the trial of modernity and its legacies, the rise of anti-universalistic discourses, and the temptations of identitarian closures are common Western trends, this paper will specifically focus on the French case, as its republican assimilationist model has been very much infused with universalism and endures many tensions facing multicultural...
En France, les jeunes générations ont grandi durant des années marquées par des crises si régulières que l’on peut raisonnablement penser que le terme « crise » ne doit plus désigner une simple rupture entre deux périodes supposées stables (le « monde d’avant » et le « monde d’après ») mais un âge en tant que tel, fait d’incertitudes, et de fragmen...
Youth studies in Latin America and Spain face numerous challenges. This book delves into youth experiences in the 21st century, shaped by complex and pressing issues: the surge of youth cultures and groups, visual images of youth throughout time, and fragmented youth experiences in radically unequal societies. It analyzes young people as precarious...
Qu’ont en commun le groupe de pop BTS et la série Squid Game ? Tous deux appartiennent à la nouvelle vague de produits culturels sud-coréens, connue sous le nom de Hallyu, qui déferle sur le monde et surprend par l’engouement qu’elle suscite.
Cet ouvrage, le premier en langue française consacré au sujet, montre comment cette pop culture, fruit de l...
Date: March 29th, Tuesday, 2022 16:00 – 17:40
Online via Zoom [in English]
https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/3293955282?pwd=S2xmdFp1eTRUaGtDcXZHU2Y4S1ZCUT09#success
Presenters:
Vincenzo Cicchelli
– Associate Professor at Université de Paris
– Research Fellow at Centre Population et Développement (Université de Paris / IRD), France
Sylvie Octobre
– Res...
After a 35 years-long career on worldwide TV screens, Lieutenant Columbo has become one of the most famous ctional detectives. Lilian Mathieu shows that the Columbo series owes its success to its implicit but formidable political dimension, as each episode is structured as a class struggle between a rich, famous, cultured or powerful criminal and a...
the purpose of this journal issue has to do with pointing out the role of musical practices, understood in a very broad sense, to deepen global transformations, or creating global communities. The issue will thus welcome papers, focused on youth, or intergenerational differences, dealing with examples of new tastes, marginalized communities giving...
Combining global, media, and cultural studies, this book analyzes the success of Hallyu, or the "Korean Wave” in the West, both at a macro and micro level, as an alternative pop culture globalization. This research investigates the capitalist ecosystem (formed by producers, institutions and the state), the soft power of Hallyu, and the reception am...
La longue suite de crises globales (économiques, migratoires, sociales, sécuritaires et politiques) que traverse la France depuis le début des années 2000 a profondément bouleversé le lien social et eu un impact sur la façon dont la jeunesse conçoit le vivre ensemble. Face au creusement des inégalités, à la perte de confi ance dans les institutions...
Most of the young French fans we interviewed discovered the Korean Wave in middle or high school. Their decision to stand out by expressing their passion for a niche culture was very often met with incomprehension or ridicule. And yet, growing up with Hallyu was also a source of support when facing the various challenges of adolescence. These young...
The domination of global pop culture has long been the sole purview of the Big Three (the United States, Japan, and Europe). Recently, however, new players have emerged, South Korea in particular, a country whose productions are fashioning a more multipolar world. By adopting the high-quality standards of the players dominating the cultural markets...
The Korean Wave can be analyzed as a specific kind of soft power. In fact, it is “sweet power” that is deployed using values-based diplomacy that encourages exchanges and hybridization and is disseminated in the form of the Korean “cultural package.” This sweet power has benefited from the rise of aesthetic capitalism and the emergence of a multipo...
This volume stands out thanks to its multi-level monographic approach. First, it encourages a neglected dialogue between the globalization of culture and the study of cosmopolitanism. Second, it considers South Korean production as an alternative to American hegemony in the pop culture. Finally, it argues that the Korean Wave is the outcome of chan...
When validating the Korean Wave’s popularity in East and Southeast Asia, the cultural proximity argument has often been used. When Hallyu’s spread to more distant countries is examined, however, the concept of exoticism is often employed to justify this success, consequently overlooking the growing familiarity of many publics with global pop cultur...
The Korean Wave presents a unique production model that borrows from global capitalism and builds upon close collaboration between the State and the private enterprise. This model has recentered economic focus on exports. Entertainment capitalism burst onto the global scene in the 2010s. It promotes the horizontal integration of various products an...
The reception of Hallyu is influenced by the culture and norms of the society of its consumers, as the latter look for similarities and differences with regard to their society of origin. This back-and-forth allows Hallyu fans to outline the principles of a good and fair society. South Korean society offers to young French fans a different perspect...
By establishing connections between micro- and macro-analyses, between structure and agency, our monographic approach has demonstrated how Hallyu is a unique phenomenon in four different ways, on account of (a) its broad conception of art and culture, based on the notion of entertainment and multi-talented artists (Idols) whose skills stem from bot...
The wave of Japanese pop culture reached France in the 1990s, during the formative years of some of our respondents, undeniably fostered their taste for exotic difference and for seeking high-quality alternatives to American culture. According to our interviewees, the inclusion of a previously overlooked country in the Hallyu aesthetic offers a mor...
This article seeks to provide the reader with a theoretical model to understand the cultural dimensions of globalization linked to the circulation of global cultural goods. To do so, we shall first contextualize the main analytical tools developed since the early 1990s. In examining culture’s global turn, researchers have highlighted three main sou...
This article provides a theoretical model to grasp the cultural dimensions of globalization, through the lens of the circulation of products from the global cultural industries. It first reviews the main analytical tools of this field, developed since the early 1990s, some of which have been instrumental to the global turn of culture. Three key ten...
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to this Call for Papers of issue 4.1 of the Journal Youth and Globalization" entitled: "Youth and Varieties of Globalism in Asia", guest-edited by Ming-Chang Tsai and Chin-Chun Yi (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
All best wishes
Sylvie Octobre & Vincenzo Cicchelli
Editors-in-Chief
En partant d’une absence relative de travaux en langue française sur la globalisation de la culture, ce numéro double de Réseaux contribue à combler cette lacune, en se foca¬lisant principalement sur la circulation des produits culturels. Sans pouvoir prétendre à une impossible exhaustivité, ce numéro ambitionne à la fois de familiariser le lecteur...
Comment les enfants ont-ils vécu le 1er confinement lié à la Covid-19 au printemps 2020 en France ? Ils étaient alors confinés à la maison et n’allaient pas à l’école. S’appuyant sur l’enquête Sapris, Xavier Thierry et ses collègues examinent le quotidien des enfants de 8-9 ans
pendant cette période. Ont-ils passé leur temps devant des écrans ? à d...
This reference book provides the reader with an exhaustive array of epistemological, theoretical, and empirical explorations related to the field of cosmopolitanism studies. It considers the cosmopolitan perspective rather as a relevant approach to the understanding of some major issues related to globalization than as a subfield of global studies....
This article explores the passion of young French people for the Hallyu, within the framework of an analysis of the contribution of the "consumption of difference" (Schroeder 2015) to the formation of the self through the figure of the 'cosmopolitan amateur' (Cicchelli and Octobre 2018a). We will first look at the reasons for the success of Hallyu...
Issue 2.1 of the Journal Youth and Globalization
https://brill.com/view/journals/yogo/2/1/yogo.2.issue-1.xml
Cet article interroge la passion des jeunes Français pour la Hallyu, en s’inscrivant dans une analyse de la contribution de la “consommation de la différence” (Schroeder 2015) –c’est-à-dire la consommation de produits des industries culturelles à forte circulation internationale– à la formation de soi à travers la nouvelle figure de “l’amateur cosm...
Bien que la littérature sur la globalisation de la culture soit très vaste, notamment dans le monde anglo-saxon, il existe des lacunes que ce numéro spécial de Réseaux souhaiterait combler, en suscitant des contributions dans les domaines de la production, des politiques culturelles, de la réception et de l’hégémonie culturelle.
Echéancier
-Remi...
Essay on Islamization is a study of the Islamization of all Muslim societies, their conversion to orthodox Islam which, with its chapels, soldier monks and holy war, leads to fundamentalism as well as to a moral puritanism. Cherkaoui gauges the importance of this global phenomenon by analyzing the empirical data of some sixty Muslim and non-Muslim...
This special issue focuses on education as a crucial factor mediating the relationship between youth and globalization. Specically, four papers collectively explore how education can be re-envisioned from the following vantage point: the use of technol-ogy to foreground the fundamentally interconnected nature of today’s world; the help of mindful...
Gathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world,...
In this volume, Cicchelli and Octobre sail straight into this oceanic conundrum. The authors describe their central concern as being the fact that “no institutional structure presently exists to accompany or facilitate the transition from...a budding shared awareness of the world and its problems to targeted action designed to tame globalization an...
Based on the perspective of aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism, this paper aims to establish connections between cultural sociology and global studies at the micro level. Starting from the premise that the cultural repertoires of young French people have become internationalized, this article proposes the concept of a ‘regime of global tastes’, an...
Youth and Globalization is an academic forum for discussion and exchanges, a space for intellectual creativity on all questions relating to youth in a globalizing world. Its aim is to provide an innovative understanding of youth studies in a global context based on multiscalar, multilevel, multisite, and multidisciplinary approaches. Young people b...
Le régime technoculturel des réseaux numériques provoque de profondes transformations des statuts de récepteurs, consommateurs, créateurs et médiateurs, dans un contexte de globalisation de la culture, transformations particulièrement sensibles chez les jeunes. Ce régime technoculturel valorise des savoir-faires liés à l’usage des dispositifs socio...
This article adds to the literature on the consequences of cultural capital at the age of cultural globalization by analyzing the ways youth engage in globalized cultural consumption in three cities – Paris, São Paulo, and Seoul. Drawing on cosmopolitanism as an aesthetic and cultural stance of openness and on global cultural consumption as providi...
An array of tremendous transnational changes have occurred in the last 40 years that have deeply affected youth's lives all around the world with respect to their family life, coupling and sexuality, education and employment, cultural consumption and imaginaries, mobilities and migrations, civic and political engagements, and beliefs and values dur...
Cet article interroge la passion des jeunes Français pour la Hallyu, en s’inscrivant dans une analyse de la contribution de la “consommation de la différence” (Schroeder 2015) –c’est-à-dire la consommation de produits des industries culturelles à forte circulation internationale– à la formation de soi à travers la nouvelle figure de “l’amateur cosm...
Originally published in French, the book is based on an in-depth quantitative and qualitative study of French youth with regard to their choices of aesthetic and cultural repertoires. Additionally, the book is situated within the voluminous interdisciplinary debate on cosmopolitanism (for useful overviews, see Delanty, 2018; Skrbis and Woodward, 20...
Quels sont les mécanismes qui produisent et reproduisent des situations d’inégalité ou de discrimination en matière de genre dans le champ culturel, où les corps sont souvent placés au premier plan, que ce soit dans les domaines de la création, de l’interprétation ou de la médiation ?
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This edited collection ambitions to highlight the varieties of reception of Hallyu products (K-pop music and K-drama, webtoons and manhwa, video games ) by global youth audiences in historically situated contexts (both local and national). Considering Hallyu as a transnational phenomenon, being localized in various social, economic, and cultural settings, being disseminated through global media and networks, this edited collection aims at gathering original theoretical and field research to understand better the dynamic of glocalization of the reception of Hallyu among its many youth audiences around the world. Authors Guidelines The edited collection aims at being interdisciplinary (it will welcome chapters from social sciences, marketing, media studies, cultural studies, popular studies, Hallyu studies, etc.). Theoretical discussion, as well as fieldworks, are welcome. We also encourage comparative chapters. The chapters should be between 6000 and 8000 words (including references and footnotes).
For editorial guidelines, please see: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/YOGO.pdf
Timeline • Submission of proposals (500 words maximum): December 2022 • Answer to the authors: February 2023 • First versions of the chapters (6000/8000 words maximum): July 2023 • Remarks to the authors: September 2023 • Second versions of the chapters: December 2023 • Submission of the manuscript to Brill: March 2024 • Date of publication: Fall 2024 The submissions should jointly be sent to Vincenzo CICCHELLI: vincenzo.cicchelli@ceped.org Siyeun MOON: sissi65@sookmyung.ac.kr Sylvie OCTOBRE: sylvie.octobre@culture.gouv.fr
rawing on both theoretical and empirical research, this double special issue intends to provide innovative insights into childhood and youth studies through the lenses of global risks, considering multilevel, multisite, and multidisciplinary approaches. Regarding the methodological approaches, scholars and advanced researchers are invited to make proposals that use qualitative and quantitative methods, combinations of both, or innovative and creative techniques that can shed light on how children and young people cope with different risks globalized today and/or in the future. Youth and Globalization publish peer-reviewed articles (8,000- 9,000 words), book reviews (up to 1,200 words), and interviews/conversations (not to exceed 2,500 words). See Author Instructions: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/YOGO.pdf
