Laurent Gayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 208015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurent Gayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurent |
| FAMILY NAME | Gayer |
| SIGNATURE | GAYER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gunpoint Capitalism: Enforcing Industrial Order in Karachi
On 11 September 2012, over 250 workers of Ali Enterprises, which produced jeans for the German discount retailer KiK, perished in a fire in their Karachi factory. Was this an accident or an arson attack? Straight away, the tragedy gave rise to contradictory interpretations. While some blamed the exploitative logics of fast fashion, others suspected foul play by the political parties preying on the city and its business class.Taking as a starting …
The Guardians of Industrial Peace
Presenting the central object of the book, this chapter seeks to restore the henchmen of capital to their rightful place in the general dynamics of capitalism. Pakistan is far from having a monopoly on such coercive practices. Well beyond the phases of primitive accumulation, the global history of capitalism is intertwined with that of specialists in violence who mobilize their knowledge, coercive skills, and relational networks in response to an…
Un regard alternatif sur les luttes sociales: Les « street reporters », entre engagements militants et arrangements marchands
La figure du « street reporter » a fait irruption dans l’espace audiovisuel global à l’occasion d’une série de révoltes visées par un « black-out » médiatique (en Birmanie en 2007, en Iran en 2009 puis dans le monde arabe en 2011). En France, l’émergence de ces non-professionnels couvrant « au contact » les mobilisations et leur répression coïncide avec l’apparition, quelques années plus tard, de nouvelles applications mobiles de diffusion en dir…
Le spectre de la guerre civile dans quelques fictions apocalyptiques
International audience
Des désordres productifs: Conflits urbains et luttes sociales à Karachi (Pakistan)
Brouillant les frontières entre la guerre et la paix, les états de désordre prolongés font l'objet d'une attention croissante de la part des sciences sociales. Jusqu'à présent, peu de travaux se sont pourtant intéressés aux modalités de reproduction de l'économie productive et des solidarités professionnelles dans les moments de dislocation apparente de l'ordre politique et social. Synthétisant les résultats d'une enquête menée de 2014 à 2022 sur…
La monographie comparative: Embrasser la tension entre singularité et universalité
Comment tenir ensemble un propos de portée générale et les exigences d'une analyse approfondie ? C'est à la résolution de ce dilemme que s'emploie la monographie comparative, qui constitue une approche fertile pour monter en généralité à partir de l'analyse fine d'un cas singulier. La monographie comparative s'inscrit dans une approche de la comparaison qui rompt avec les acceptions formalistes aujourd'hui dominantes. Ancrée dans l'étude minutieu…
Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2019. Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India
Blood runs through South Asian languages and controlling its flows has been central to moral and political claims across the subcontinent. Hardworking men and women earn their bread with their sweat and blood (khoon pasine ki kamai), while people of gentle manners must learn to tame their emotions by “drinking blood” (khoon ka ghoont pina). Great souls will not hesitate to shed blood for the common good and, from revolutionaries of the early-twen…
Let's Beat Crime Together: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi
The Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) was launched in 1990 by a group of Karachi-based industrialists, with the aim of improving police performance and restoring public order in Pakistan's major business hub. Over the years, CPLC members developed a unique informational capital as well as analytical and operational skills, which were recognized as a form of expertise by law enforcement agencies and contributed to the entrenchment of the or…
What You See is What You Get: Local journalism and the search for truth in Lyari, Karachi
Situations of internecine warfare have in common to question the transitivity of everyday life-that is, its capacity to be taken for granted, to flow without any need for explication. These wars within the familiar generate specific anxieties about where to look at and what to believe. Events, persons, places, or objects whose status seemed hitherto undeniable become less predictable, while their worth comes into question. As individuals' ontolog…
Putting out the Baldia factory fire: How the trial of Karachi’s industrial capitalism did not happen
International audience
La « normalité de l’anormal »: Recomposer le quotidien en situation de guerre civile
Et si la guerre civile, la terreur, l’état d’urgence étaient d’abord des phénomènes (a) rythmiques – des états d’irrégularité chronique, d’habituation apparente mais précaire, où la reproduction du quotidien serait suspendue au surgissement aléatoire de la violence ? [...]
Drawing the line: Bonds and bounds of civility in a Christianbastiof Karachi
What do situations of chronic violence and resulting polarizations do to civility, and especially to its more horizontal forms? Using an account of everyday pluralism in an impoverished Christian neighbourhood of Karachi, this article addresses this question by examining how marginalized groups of that embattled city have been cobbling together forms of coexistence in the midst of ethnic and sectarian conflicts. Focusing in particular on the mora…
Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan
Violer la loi pour maintenir l'ordre: Le vigilantisme en débat
Le vigilantisme recouvre une gamme d'actions collectives, souvent violentes et généralement illégales, dont la vocation proclamée est de maintenir l'ordre et/ou d'exercer la justice, au nom de normes juridiques ou morales. À travers cette définition, il ne s'agit pas de figer ces pratiques sécuritaires dans un concept inamovible. Tout en dressant un état de la littérature et des débats autour des vigilantes , cette introduction au dossier thémati…
The Need for Speed: Traffic Regulation and the Violent Fabric of Karachi
As a domain of political intervention, speed is a meeting ground for projects of domination and tactics of emancipation, for logics of exclusion coexisting with various forms of collisions, intersections and amalgamations. Instead of reducing the 'need for speed' to a linear and unequivocal process, this article makes the case for thinking about speed as an arena of conflict, subject to brutal accelerations but also to at least momentary decelera…
Faire l'amour et la guerre: Le problème des « relations physiques » au sein de la People’s Liberation Army (PLA) du Népal
De 1996 à 2006, le Népal a été le théâtre d'une « guerre populaire » animée par un parti maoïste militarisé, qui s'est largement ouvert aux recrues féminines. Les théoriciennes du « féminisme martial » maoïste partagent cependant les inquiétudes de leurs camarades masculins quant aux risques de dérive libidinale de leur mouvement : la révolution sexuelle ne doit pas se faire aux dépens de la révolution tout court. En réponse à ce qu'ils qualifien…
L'architecture de la domination. Un siècle de politiques du logement ouvrier à Bombay (1850-1950)
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar. The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories. New Delhi, Penguin Books, [2007] 2008, 288 p
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Princesses’ Among the ‘Lions’: The Militant Careers of Sikh Female Fighters
Most Sikh militants who picked up the gun against the Indian state in the aftermath of Operation Bluestar (June 1984) were male, but a handful of women also took part in the armed struggle for an independent Sikh state, Khalistan, between 1984 and 1995. Throughout the insurrection, possibly a few hundreds of women guerrillas (compared to thousands of male recruits) enrolled in the militancy. Although most of these women did not directly participa…
I Never Held Money with my Teeth: Constructions of Exemplarity in Abul Fazl Farooqi's Nasheb-o-Faraz
Although life-stories have been playing a central role in the construction of exemplarity in South Asia for centuries, the autobiographical genre was a latecomer on the region’s literary scene. It only developed in the late nineteenth, early 20th century and was constrained by conventional ‘rules of reticence’, which discouraged narratives of self-aggrandizement. Nasheb-o-Faraz (Ups and Downs), the autobiography of the Delhi-based real estate ent…
Introduction. Modelling Exemplarity in South Asia
In 2007, Prashant Tamang, a young Indian police officer of Nepalese origin, became the winner of the third edition of the television show ‘Indian Idol’. This victory was made possible by the mobilization of Tamang’s profession—the Indian Police force—and of his ethnic community—Indians of Nepalese descent—both in India and abroad. The young man had captured the imagination of these two groups with his musical talent but also with his life-story …
Le général face à ses juges: La fronde de la magistrature pakistanaise
Devenu gênant pour les autorités civiles et militaires, du fait de son activisme judiciaire, le président de la Cour suprême pakistanaise, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a été suspendu de ses fonctions par le Président Pervez Musharraf le 9 mars 2007. Cette décision a provoqué un tollé au sein des professions juridiques pakistanaises qui se sont alors mobilisées pour obtenir la réinstallation du magistrat. Le mouvement de contestation a été animé pa…
Le réengagement de l'Inde en Asie centrale
Depuis le 11 septembre 2001, l’Inde a entrepris de se réengager en Afghanistan. Au-delà, elle vise à développer sa présence dans l’espace de l’Asie centrale, en particulier vers le Tadjikistan ou l’Ouzbékistan. À la faveur de la coopération antiterroriste, New Delhi est désormais liée à plusieurs organisations régionales : elle est par exemple observateur à l’OCS. Son réinvestissement politique et économique modéré devra cependant compter avec un…
Projections internationales ou détours vers le local? Les diplomaties identitaires des sikhs (Inde) et des Mohajirs (Pakistan)
Ethnic diplomacy can be characterised as a ‘popular mode of diplomatic action’. As such, it is an illustration of the privatisation of diplomacy, which may involve private actions sponsored by state actors or, on the contrary, private actions with a public outcome in the realm of foreign policy. By attempting to reach out to state actors, international organisations and global NGOs, ethnic diplomats articulate a cultural mode of transnational mob…
"Guns, Slums, and "Yellow Devils: A Genealogy of Urban Conflicts in Karachi, Pakistan
Karachi is a city of migrants and an important commercial hub, which provides Pakistan with a window on the world. But Karachi is also a deeply fragmented city, plagued by an acute urban crisis that takes roots in the failure of the development plans that successive Pakistani governments have delegated to foreign experts. The transnationalisation of the Afghan jihad, in the 1980s, also fuelled social and ethnic antagonisms in the city and contrib…
Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan
Violer la loi pour maintenir l'ordre: Le vigilantisme en débat
Le vigilantisme recouvre une gamme d'actions collectives, souvent violentes et généralement illégales, dont la vocation proclamée est de maintenir l'ordre et/ou d'exercer la justice, au nom de normes juridiques ou morales. À travers cette définition, il ne s'agit pas de figer ces pratiques sécuritaires dans un concept inamovible. Tout en dressant un état de la littérature et des débats autour des vigilantes , cette introduction au dossier thémati…
What You See is What You Get: Local journalism and the search for truth in Lyari, Karachi
Situations of internecine warfare have in common to question the transitivity of everyday life-that is, its capacity to be taken for granted, to flow without any need for explication. These wars within the familiar generate specific anxieties about where to look at and what to believe. Events, persons, places, or objects whose status seemed hitherto undeniable become less predictable, while their worth comes into question. As individuals' ontolog…
The Need for Speed: Traffic Regulation and the Violent Fabric of Karachi
As a domain of political intervention, speed is a meeting ground for projects of domination and tactics of emancipation, for logics of exclusion coexisting with various forms of collisions, intersections and amalgamations. Instead of reducing the 'need for speed' to a linear and unequivocal process, this article makes the case for thinking about speed as an arena of conflict, subject to brutal accelerations but also to at least momentary decelera…
Let's Beat Crime Together: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi
The Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) was launched in 1990 by a group of Karachi-based industrialists, with the aim of improving police performance and restoring public order in Pakistan's major business hub. Over the years, CPLC members developed a unique informational capital as well as analytical and operational skills, which were recognized as a form of expertise by law enforcement agencies and contributed to the entrenchment of the or…
Faire l'amour et la guerre: Le problème des « relations physiques » au sein de la People’s Liberation Army (PLA) du Népal
De 1996 à 2006, le Népal a été le théâtre d'une « guerre populaire » animée par un parti maoïste militarisé, qui s'est largement ouvert aux recrues féminines. Les théoriciennes du « féminisme martial » maoïste partagent cependant les inquiétudes de leurs camarades masculins quant aux risques de dérive libidinale de leur mouvement : la révolution sexuelle ne doit pas se faire aux dépens de la révolution tout court. En réponse à ce qu'ils qualifien…
Princesses’ Among the ‘Lions’: The Militant Careers of Sikh Female Fighters
Most Sikh militants who picked up the gun against the Indian state in the aftermath of Operation Bluestar (June 1984) were male, but a handful of women also took part in the armed struggle for an independent Sikh state, Khalistan, between 1984 and 1995. Throughout the insurrection, possibly a few hundreds of women guerrillas (compared to thousands of male recruits) enrolled in the militancy. Although most of these women did not directly participa…
Le « Jeu de l'amour: Trajectoires sacrificielles et usages stratégiques des martyrs dans le mouvement sikh pour le Khalistan
Si le Panth sikh a connu ses premiers martyrs dès le xviie siècle, ce n’est qu’au xixe que le mouvement de réforme socio-religieuse des Singh Sabhas a formalisé un idiome du martyre sikh, édictant les (bonnes) manières de pratiquer et d’évoquer la mort volontaire dans le sikhisme. Ces codes pragmatiques et discursifs ont été appropriés par les mouvements révolutionnaires sikhs (tels que le Ghadr, au début du xxe siècle) et surtout par le mouvemen…
La « normalité de l’anormal »: Recomposer le quotidien en situation de guerre civile
Et si la guerre civile, la terreur, l’état d’urgence étaient d’abord des phénomènes (a) rythmiques – des états d’irrégularité chronique, d’habituation apparente mais précaire, où la reproduction du quotidien serait suspendue au surgissement aléatoire de la violence ? [...]
Drawing the line: Bonds and bounds of civility in a Christianbastiof Karachi
What do situations of chronic violence and resulting polarizations do to civility, and especially to its more horizontal forms? Using an account of everyday pluralism in an impoverished Christian neighbourhood of Karachi, this article addresses this question by examining how marginalized groups of that embattled city have been cobbling together forms of coexistence in the midst of ethnic and sectarian conflicts. Focusing in particular on the mora…
Introduction. Modelling Exemplarity in South Asia
In 2007, Prashant Tamang, a young Indian police officer of Nepalese origin, became the winner of the third edition of the television show ‘Indian Idol’. This victory was made possible by the mobilization of Tamang’s profession—the Indian Police force—and of his ethnic community—Indians of Nepalese descent—both in India and abroad. The young man had captured the imagination of these two groups with his musical talent but also with his life-story …
The Volatility of the 'Other: Identity Formation and Social Interaction in Diasporic Environments
The construction of an ‘other’ and the confrontation with this intimate enemy lies at the heart of identity politics. In diasporic environments, these constructions of the ‘other’ have two major attributes: their multiplicity and their volatility. Ethnic entrepreneurs have a wide range of options to propose an ‘enemy’ to their audience, hence their multiplicity. At the same time, social and political evolutions in the migrants’ country of residen…
Karachi: Violences et globalisation dans une ville-monde
Ville de migrants et « cité-entrepôt » ouverte sur le monde depuis la période coloniale, Karachi a vu son tissu social se déchirer depuis les années 1970. L’éclipse du « monde commun » karachiite prend sa source dans la faillite des plans d’aménagement urbain sous-traités par les autorités pakistanaises à des experts étrangers, ainsi que dans les violences sociales suscitées par le débordement du jihad afghan hors de ses frontières. Les partis et…
Karachi: Violences et globalisation dans une ville-monde
Ville de migrants et « cité-entrepôt » ouverte sur le monde depuis la période coloniale, Karachi a vu son tissu social se déchirer depuis les années 1970. L’éclipse du « monde commun » karachiite prend sa source dans la faillite des plans d’aménagement urbain sous-traités par les autorités pakistanaises à des experts étrangers, ainsi que dans les violences sociales suscitées par le débordement du jihad afghan hors de ses frontières. Les partis et…
Le « Jeu de l'amour: Trajectoires sacrificielles et usages stratégiques des martyrs dans le mouvement sikh pour le Khalistan
Si le Panth sikh a connu ses premiers martyrs dès le xviie siècle, ce n’est qu’au xixe que le mouvement de réforme socio-religieuse des Singh Sabhas a formalisé un idiome du martyre sikh, édictant les (bonnes) manières de pratiquer et d’évoquer la mort volontaire dans le sikhisme. Ces codes pragmatiques et discursifs ont été appropriés par les mouvements révolutionnaires sikhs (tels que le Ghadr, au début du xxe siècle) et surtout par le mouvemen…
"Guns, Slums, and "Yellow Devils: A Genealogy of Urban Conflicts in Karachi, Pakistan
Karachi is a city of migrants and an important commercial hub, which provides Pakistan with a window on the world. But Karachi is also a deeply fragmented city, plagued by an acute urban crisis that takes roots in the failure of the development plans that successive Pakistani governments have delegated to foreign experts. The transnationalisation of the Afghan jihad, in the 1980s, also fuelled social and ethnic antagonisms in the city and contrib…
The Volatility of the 'Other: Identity Formation and Social Interaction in Diasporic Environments
The construction of an ‘other’ and the confrontation with this intimate enemy lies at the heart of identity politics. In diasporic environments, these constructions of the ‘other’ have two major attributes: their multiplicity and their volatility. Ethnic entrepreneurs have a wide range of options to propose an ‘enemy’ to their audience, hence their multiplicity. At the same time, social and political evolutions in the migrants’ country of residen…
Le réengagement de l'Inde en Asie centrale
Depuis le 11 septembre 2001, l’Inde a entrepris de se réengager en Afghanistan. Au-delà, elle vise à développer sa présence dans l’espace de l’Asie centrale, en particulier vers le Tadjikistan ou l’Ouzbékistan. À la faveur de la coopération antiterroriste, New Delhi est désormais liée à plusieurs organisations régionales : elle est par exemple observateur à l’OCS. Son réinvestissement politique et économique modéré devra cependant compter avec un…
Projections internationales ou détours vers le local? Les diplomaties identitaires des sikhs (Inde) et des Mohajirs (Pakistan)
Ethnic diplomacy can be characterised as a ‘popular mode of diplomatic action’. As such, it is an illustration of the privatisation of diplomacy, which may involve private actions sponsored by state actors or, on the contrary, private actions with a public outcome in the realm of foreign policy. By attempting to reach out to state actors, international organisations and global NGOs, ethnic diplomats articulate a cultural mode of transnational mob…
Le général face à ses juges: La fronde de la magistrature pakistanaise
Devenu gênant pour les autorités civiles et militaires, du fait de son activisme judiciaire, le président de la Cour suprême pakistanaise, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a été suspendu de ses fonctions par le Président Pervez Musharraf le 9 mars 2007. Cette décision a provoqué un tollé au sein des professions juridiques pakistanaises qui se sont alors mobilisées pour obtenir la réinstallation du magistrat. Le mouvement de contestation a été animé pa…
I Never Held Money with my Teeth: Constructions of Exemplarity in Abul Fazl Farooqi's Nasheb-o-Faraz
Although life-stories have been playing a central role in the construction of exemplarity in South Asia for centuries, the autobiographical genre was a latecomer on the region’s literary scene. It only developed in the late nineteenth, early 20th century and was constrained by conventional ‘rules of reticence’, which discouraged narratives of self-aggrandizement. Nasheb-o-Faraz (Ups and Downs), the autobiography of the Delhi-based real estate ent…
Introduction. Modelling Exemplarity in South Asia
In 2007, Prashant Tamang, a young Indian police officer of Nepalese origin, became the winner of the third edition of the television show ‘Indian Idol’. This victory was made possible by the mobilization of Tamang’s profession—the Indian Police force—and of his ethnic community—Indians of Nepalese descent—both in India and abroad. The young man had captured the imagination of these two groups with his musical talent but also with his life-story …
Princesses’ Among the ‘Lions’: The Militant Careers of Sikh Female Fighters
Most Sikh militants who picked up the gun against the Indian state in the aftermath of Operation Bluestar (June 1984) were male, but a handful of women also took part in the armed struggle for an independent Sikh state, Khalistan, between 1984 and 1995. Throughout the insurrection, possibly a few hundreds of women guerrillas (compared to thousands of male recruits) enrolled in the militancy. Although most of these women did not directly participa…
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar. The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories. New Delhi, Penguin Books, [2007] 2008, 288 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
L'architecture de la domination. Un siècle de politiques du logement ouvrier à Bombay (1850-1950)
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
Faire l'amour et la guerre: Le problème des « relations physiques » au sein de la People’s Liberation Army (PLA) du Népal
De 1996 à 2006, le Népal a été le théâtre d'une « guerre populaire » animée par un parti maoïste militarisé, qui s'est largement ouvert aux recrues féminines. Les théoriciennes du « féminisme martial » maoïste partagent cependant les inquiétudes de leurs camarades masculins quant aux risques de dérive libidinale de leur mouvement : la révolution sexuelle ne doit pas se faire aux dépens de la révolution tout court. En réponse à ce qu'ils qualifien…
Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan
Violer la loi pour maintenir l'ordre: Le vigilantisme en débat
Le vigilantisme recouvre une gamme d'actions collectives, souvent violentes et généralement illégales, dont la vocation proclamée est de maintenir l'ordre et/ou d'exercer la justice, au nom de normes juridiques ou morales. À travers cette définition, il ne s'agit pas de figer ces pratiques sécuritaires dans un concept inamovible. Tout en dressant un état de la littérature et des débats autour des vigilantes , cette introduction au dossier thémati…
The Need for Speed: Traffic Regulation and the Violent Fabric of Karachi
As a domain of political intervention, speed is a meeting ground for projects of domination and tactics of emancipation, for logics of exclusion coexisting with various forms of collisions, intersections and amalgamations. Instead of reducing the 'need for speed' to a linear and unequivocal process, this article makes the case for thinking about speed as an arena of conflict, subject to brutal accelerations but also to at least momentary decelera…
La « normalité de l’anormal »: Recomposer le quotidien en situation de guerre civile
Et si la guerre civile, la terreur, l’état d’urgence étaient d’abord des phénomènes (a) rythmiques – des états d’irrégularité chronique, d’habituation apparente mais précaire, où la reproduction du quotidien serait suspendue au surgissement aléatoire de la violence ? [...]
Drawing the line: Bonds and bounds of civility in a Christianbastiof Karachi
What do situations of chronic violence and resulting polarizations do to civility, and especially to its more horizontal forms? Using an account of everyday pluralism in an impoverished Christian neighbourhood of Karachi, this article addresses this question by examining how marginalized groups of that embattled city have been cobbling together forms of coexistence in the midst of ethnic and sectarian conflicts. Focusing in particular on the mora…
Putting out the Baldia factory fire: How the trial of Karachi’s industrial capitalism did not happen
International audience
What You See is What You Get: Local journalism and the search for truth in Lyari, Karachi
Situations of internecine warfare have in common to question the transitivity of everyday life-that is, its capacity to be taken for granted, to flow without any need for explication. These wars within the familiar generate specific anxieties about where to look at and what to believe. Events, persons, places, or objects whose status seemed hitherto undeniable become less predictable, while their worth comes into question. As individuals' ontolog…
Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2019. Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India
Blood runs through South Asian languages and controlling its flows has been central to moral and political claims across the subcontinent. Hardworking men and women earn their bread with their sweat and blood (khoon pasine ki kamai), while people of gentle manners must learn to tame their emotions by “drinking blood” (khoon ka ghoont pina). Great souls will not hesitate to shed blood for the common good and, from revolutionaries of the early-twen…
Let's Beat Crime Together: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi
The Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) was launched in 1990 by a group of Karachi-based industrialists, with the aim of improving police performance and restoring public order in Pakistan's major business hub. Over the years, CPLC members developed a unique informational capital as well as analytical and operational skills, which were recognized as a form of expertise by law enforcement agencies and contributed to the entrenchment of the or…
La monographie comparative: Embrasser la tension entre singularité et universalité
Comment tenir ensemble un propos de portée générale et les exigences d'une analyse approfondie ? C'est à la résolution de ce dilemme que s'emploie la monographie comparative, qui constitue une approche fertile pour monter en généralité à partir de l'analyse fine d'un cas singulier. La monographie comparative s'inscrit dans une approche de la comparaison qui rompt avec les acceptions formalistes aujourd'hui dominantes. Ancrée dans l'étude minutieu…
Des désordres productifs: Conflits urbains et luttes sociales à Karachi (Pakistan)
Brouillant les frontières entre la guerre et la paix, les états de désordre prolongés font l'objet d'une attention croissante de la part des sciences sociales. Jusqu'à présent, peu de travaux se sont pourtant intéressés aux modalités de reproduction de l'économie productive et des solidarités professionnelles dans les moments de dislocation apparente de l'ordre politique et social. Synthétisant les résultats d'une enquête menée de 2014 à 2022 sur…
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