Claire Nicolas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1591337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Nicolas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicolas |
| SIGNATURE | NICOLAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swiss National Science Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3429-5209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
III. Scales
Despite a recent shift towards Global South-centred histories of development, women in and from Asia and Africa remain largely neglected in the historiography. In response, this Arenas issue examines the implications of situating the roles and experiences of women at the centre of historical analysis in this field. Bringing together scholars with diverse research expertise, the discussion reflects on the gendered meanings of development in twenti…
Les compétitions sportives internationales dans toutes leurs dimensions
International audience
Penser les corps sportifs en féministes
Cet article démontre que le sport est un espace essentiel de revendication pour la pensée et l’activisme féministes, en prenant comme objet d’étude particulier les corps sportifs. En s’appuyant sur la littérature existante, les autrices exposent ce que signifie une démarche féministe appliquée au sport – notamment depuis l’histoire, la sociologie et la philosophie. Puis, elles se penchent sur les différentes personnes impliquées dans ce qu’elles …
Where Wisdom Comes”
In this interview, Eric Allotey, record officer at Accra’s branch of the Public Records and Archives Administration Department, discusses his experience as an archivist. He tells historians of Ghana about the other side of the famous reading room in Accra, the daily work that makes archival research possible
Ghana’s Long 1970s
In 1972, the American First Lady unwittingly delayed a coup in Ghana. Late in 1971, Colonel Ignatius Acheampong and his allies selected January 6th for their planned military coup, which would oust Prime Minister Kofi Busia’s civilian government from power. But a White House announcement on New
On the field
This article analyses Ghanaian women's sport practice from the late nineteenth century to the late 1950s, from games intertwined with displays of colonial authority to school competitions, physical education and tennis. The article argues that their performances played with changing categorisations of African girlhood and womanhood, especially as young literate women from cosmopolitan urban families were expected to uphold the highest physical, m…
Amitiés féminines postcoloniales
De 1968 à 1975, huit jeunes femmes, membres de la Fédération des éclaireuses suisses, se rendent en Côte d’Ivoire pour former des cheftaines scoutes. Cet article propose une analyse micro-historique des perceptions et du positionnement de ces cheftaines-formatrices. Grâce à des sources originales, il interroge la dimension intime et concrète de la fabrique de l’intersectionnalité et des limites de la « sororité globale » d’une part, et du rôle jo…
Physical Education in the Colonial Gold Coast
This paper addresses the transfer of Physical Education to the Gold Coast, focusing on its shifting role in producing ideal subjects and its relationship to the imperial politics of the mid-20th century. It explores the contradictory ways in which, in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), the training of young teachers in higher education institutions allowed for the transfer of British citizenship training codes into a colonial setting during the first ha…
De l’histoire comparée à la démarche multi-située
Cet article montre l’intérêt d’associer démarche multi-située et histoire comparée afin de nuancer la narration historique et de faire émerger de nouvelles pistes d’analyse. Suivre des acteurs transnationaux qui ne font pas partie du domaine de la diplomatie étatique nécessite d’explorer des « archives fantômes » afin de nuancer une analyse comparative entre États. Cet article exemplifie l’usage croisé de données multi-situées, localisées en Afri…
Upstanding Youngsters
This research focuses on Ivoirian scouting from its colonial implementation in the late 1930s up to the late 1970s, under Félix Houphouet-Boigny's regime. Using a novel perspective, it highlights the gender lines of scouting youth training in West Africa. Furthermore, this paper argues that understanding this history of Ivoirian youth through the lens of the scouting movement allows us to articulate youth governance between the colonial and postc…
Addressing societal challenges through nature-based solutions
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal for Electricity Access
This paper explores the investments \n needed to achieve universal access to electricity in \n Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, and the additional operation and \n maintenance costs these investments entail. It also explores \n the drivers of these costs, by exploring hundreds of \n scenarios that combine alternative assumptions on the level \n of service targeted, population growth, urbanization, \n industrial demand, and technology cost. The main dr…
Parental Self‐Efficacy for Reducing the Risk of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety
Burgeoning research suggests that parents can reduce the risk of anxiety and depression in their adolescents and that parental self-efficacy (PSE) may be related to parental risk and protective factors for these disorders. As there are currently no measures available to assess PSE in relation to parenting behaviors that may reduce adolescent risk for depression and anxiety, we developed and validated a measure of PSE, the Parental Self-Efficacy S…
Energy investment needs for fulfilling the Paris Agreement and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Revue des livres
Cet article interroge les appels et contre-appels à la candidature de Paul Biya en tant qu’outils de participation politique. Les appels à la candidature de l’actuel président donnent à voir la construction de loyautés politiques derrière lesquelles se profilent divers arrangements clientélistes qu’imaginent les catégories dirigeantes en vue de stabiliser leurs positions hégémoniques. À l’opposé, les contre-appels mettent en évidence la manière d…
The Ghana Young Pioneers
Gymnastics’ centre of gravity
Founded as the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes De Gymnastique in 1881, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) was officially created in 1922. However, despite having over 100 national associations affiliated by the end of the twentieth century, it was dominated by Europeans until relatively recently. In particular, the former communist bloc of Eastern Europe had a particular hold on gymnastics from the 1950s onwards. This article uses t…
Des corps connectés
Créé en 1960 à l'initiative de Kwame Nkrumah, le mouvement de jeunesse des Ghana Young Pioneers (GYP) devait œuvrer à la construction d'un État-nation ghanéen libéré de l'impérialisme britannique. Cet article analyse ses modes d'organisation et les pratiques corporelles des jeunes. La formation des pionniers consistait à encadrer et à discipliner les nouveaux corps de la nation nkrumahiste et à transmettre les codes de conduite propres à l'instit…
Afrique 50
« Amis, la colonisation, ici comme partout, c’est le règne des vautours. Et les vautours qui se partagent l’Afrique ont des noms. » En 1950, le cinéaste militant René Vautier (1928-2015) réalise Afrique 50. Envoyé par la Ligue de l’Enseignement française pour documenter l’action éducative métropolitaine en Afrique-Occidentale française (AOF), il détourne cette mission pour réaliser un brûlot politique : le premier film anticolonialiste français. …
Des corps connectés
Créé en 1960 à l'initiative de Kwame Nkrumah, le mouvement de jeunesse des Ghana Young Pioneers (GYP) devait œuvrer à la construction d'un État-nation ghanéen libéré de l'impérialisme britannique. Cet article analyse ses modes d'organisation et les pratiques corporelles des jeunes. La formation des pionniers consistait à encadrer et à discipliner les nouveaux corps de la nation nkrumahiste et à transmettre les codes de conduite propres à l'instit…
Parental Self‐Efficacy for Reducing the Risk of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety
Burgeoning research suggests that parents can reduce the risk of anxiety and depression in their adolescents and that parental self-efficacy (PSE) may be related to parental risk and protective factors for these disorders. As there are currently no measures available to assess PSE in relation to parenting behaviors that may reduce adolescent risk for depression and anxiety, we developed and validated a measure of PSE, the Parental Self-Efficacy S…
Gymnastics’ centre of gravity
Founded as the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes De Gymnastique in 1881, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) was officially created in 1922. However, despite having over 100 national associations affiliated by the end of the twentieth century, it was dominated by Europeans until relatively recently. In particular, the former communist bloc of Eastern Europe had a particular hold on gymnastics from the 1950s onwards. This article uses t…
Afrique 50
« Amis, la colonisation, ici comme partout, c’est le règne des vautours. Et les vautours qui se partagent l’Afrique ont des noms. » En 1950, le cinéaste militant René Vautier (1928-2015) réalise Afrique 50. Envoyé par la Ligue de l’Enseignement française pour documenter l’action éducative métropolitaine en Afrique-Occidentale française (AOF), il détourne cette mission pour réaliser un brûlot politique : le premier film anticolonialiste français. …
Afrique 50
« Amis, la colonisation, ici comme partout, c’est le règne des vautours. Et les vautours qui se partagent l’Afrique ont des noms. » En 1950, le cinéaste militant René Vautier (1928-2015) réalise Afrique 50. Envoyé par la Ligue de l’Enseignement française pour documenter l’action éducative métropolitaine en Afrique-Occidentale française (AOF), il détourne cette mission pour réaliser un brûlot politique : le premier film anticolonialiste français. …
The Ghana Young Pioneers
Gymnastics’ centre of gravity
Founded as the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes De Gymnastique in 1881, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) was officially created in 1922. However, despite having over 100 national associations affiliated by the end of the twentieth century, it was dominated by Europeans until relatively recently. In particular, the former communist bloc of Eastern Europe had a particular hold on gymnastics from the 1950s onwards. This article uses t…
Des corps connectés
Créé en 1960 à l'initiative de Kwame Nkrumah, le mouvement de jeunesse des Ghana Young Pioneers (GYP) devait œuvrer à la construction d'un État-nation ghanéen libéré de l'impérialisme britannique. Cet article analyse ses modes d'organisation et les pratiques corporelles des jeunes. La formation des pionniers consistait à encadrer et à discipliner les nouveaux corps de la nation nkrumahiste et à transmettre les codes de conduite propres à l'instit…
Energy investment needs for fulfilling the Paris Agreement and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Revue des livres
Cet article interroge les appels et contre-appels à la candidature de Paul Biya en tant qu’outils de participation politique. Les appels à la candidature de l’actuel président donnent à voir la construction de loyautés politiques derrière lesquelles se profilent divers arrangements clientélistes qu’imaginent les catégories dirigeantes en vue de stabiliser leurs positions hégémoniques. À l’opposé, les contre-appels mettent en évidence la manière d…
Addressing societal challenges through nature-based solutions
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal for Electricity Access
This paper explores the investments \n needed to achieve universal access to electricity in \n Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, and the additional operation and \n maintenance costs these investments entail. It also explores \n the drivers of these costs, by exploring hundreds of \n scenarios that combine alternative assumptions on the level \n of service targeted, population growth, urbanization, \n industrial demand, and technology cost. The main dr…
Parental Self‐Efficacy for Reducing the Risk of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety
Burgeoning research suggests that parents can reduce the risk of anxiety and depression in their adolescents and that parental self-efficacy (PSE) may be related to parental risk and protective factors for these disorders. As there are currently no measures available to assess PSE in relation to parenting behaviors that may reduce adolescent risk for depression and anxiety, we developed and validated a measure of PSE, the Parental Self-Efficacy S…
De l’histoire comparée à la démarche multi-située
Cet article montre l’intérêt d’associer démarche multi-située et histoire comparée afin de nuancer la narration historique et de faire émerger de nouvelles pistes d’analyse. Suivre des acteurs transnationaux qui ne font pas partie du domaine de la diplomatie étatique nécessite d’explorer des « archives fantômes » afin de nuancer une analyse comparative entre États. Cet article exemplifie l’usage croisé de données multi-situées, localisées en Afri…
Upstanding Youngsters
This research focuses on Ivoirian scouting from its colonial implementation in the late 1930s up to the late 1970s, under Félix Houphouet-Boigny's regime. Using a novel perspective, it highlights the gender lines of scouting youth training in West Africa. Furthermore, this paper argues that understanding this history of Ivoirian youth through the lens of the scouting movement allows us to articulate youth governance between the colonial and postc…
Physical Education in the Colonial Gold Coast
This paper addresses the transfer of Physical Education to the Gold Coast, focusing on its shifting role in producing ideal subjects and its relationship to the imperial politics of the mid-20th century. It explores the contradictory ways in which, in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), the training of young teachers in higher education institutions allowed for the transfer of British citizenship training codes into a colonial setting during the first ha…
Amitiés féminines postcoloniales
De 1968 à 1975, huit jeunes femmes, membres de la Fédération des éclaireuses suisses, se rendent en Côte d’Ivoire pour former des cheftaines scoutes. Cet article propose une analyse micro-historique des perceptions et du positionnement de ces cheftaines-formatrices. Grâce à des sources originales, il interroge la dimension intime et concrète de la fabrique de l’intersectionnalité et des limites de la « sororité globale » d’une part, et du rôle jo…
Les compétitions sportives internationales dans toutes leurs dimensions
International audience
Penser les corps sportifs en féministes
Cet article démontre que le sport est un espace essentiel de revendication pour la pensée et l’activisme féministes, en prenant comme objet d’étude particulier les corps sportifs. En s’appuyant sur la littérature existante, les autrices exposent ce que signifie une démarche féministe appliquée au sport – notamment depuis l’histoire, la sociologie et la philosophie. Puis, elles se penchent sur les différentes personnes impliquées dans ce qu’elles …
Where Wisdom Comes”
In this interview, Eric Allotey, record officer at Accra’s branch of the Public Records and Archives Administration Department, discusses his experience as an archivist. He tells historians of Ghana about the other side of the famous reading room in Accra, the daily work that makes archival research possible
Ghana’s Long 1970s
In 1972, the American First Lady unwittingly delayed a coup in Ghana. Late in 1971, Colonel Ignatius Acheampong and his allies selected January 6th for their planned military coup, which would oust Prime Minister Kofi Busia’s civilian government from power. But a White House announcement on New
On the field
This article analyses Ghanaian women's sport practice from the late nineteenth century to the late 1950s, from games intertwined with displays of colonial authority to school competitions, physical education and tennis. The article argues that their performances played with changing categorisations of African girlhood and womanhood, especially as young literate women from cosmopolitan urban families were expected to uphold the highest physical, m…
III. Scales
Despite a recent shift towards Global South-centred histories of development, women in and from Asia and Africa remain largely neglected in the historiography. In response, this Arenas issue examines the implications of situating the roles and experiences of women at the centre of historical analysis in this field. Bringing together scholars with diverse research expertise, the discussion reflects on the gendered meanings of development in twenti…
Political science (14 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Humanities (7 works) · Art (6 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works)