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Conference, symposium - Sociology

Where do "bobos" come from?

The coining, circulation and uses of a category of description and analysis in urban spaces

Ces deux journées d’études partent d’un terme-sobriquet qui fait désormais partie des « mots de la ville » : les « bobos ». Ce ne sont pas, en premier lieu, les migrations de ces citadins, connus pour s’installer dans les quartiers populaires de centre-ville qui nous intéressent, mais plutôt la circulation du terme même au début des années 2000. Terme non savant, dont les usages sont loin d’être univoques ou fixés, circulant entre le monde des journalistes, des chercheurs ou encore des habitants, le « bobo » engage certaines représentations des groupes sociaux et des divisions urbaines.

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Conference, symposium - Political studies

Contested Democracy:

Contestation and Participation in the English-speaking World

The dissent and uprisings that spread through the Arab world during the Spring of 2011 occurred almost a quarter of a century after the fall of East European political régimes that saw the rise of "democracy" modeled on the Anglo-American representative system. This specific context which has come to characterize the past quarter of century calls for a renewed analysis of the models these political systems represent and of the processes that triggered them and led to their long-term establishment in the UK and the US.Since the 1990s, as a response to the story of the inevitable emergence of democracy in the aftermath of the Cold War, researchers on North American politics have provided an alternative reading of events: that of a "contested democracy".

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