Camille Giraut
Biographic Data
| ID | 827995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camille Giraut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camille |
| FAMILY NAME | Giraut |
| SIGNATURE | GIRAUT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal Fluminense |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5596-4155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The icing on the cake: Negotiating diversity and intersectional ascription to gain access to Sciences Po
Since the mid-2000s, several higher education institutions in France have used merit and diversity as complementary principles in implementing equal opportunity programs. Through an ethnographic approach and an intersectional framework, this article examines how Sciences Po’s Conventions éducation prioritaire (CEP) program is received by candidates participating in preparatory workshops at high schools in Seine-Saint-Denis. The CEP candidate prof…
From privileges to rights: Changing perceptions of racial quotas in Brazil
This article analyzes how the implementation of affirmative action in Brazil has changed the way people, in particular potential beneficiaries of racial quotas, understand race, inequalities, and rights.Drawing on an original collection of essays written by low-income students in a college preparatory course in Rio de Janeiro, and comparing essays written nearly twenty years apart (2003 and 2022), it shows that potential beneficiaries have become…
Seeing Race Like a State: Higher Education Affirmative Action Verification Commissions in Brazil
A growing body of literature has focused on how different states continuously "make race" by legitimizing certain racial categories while invisibilizing others. Much less has been written on the actual processes of transforming race into a bureaucratic category when implementing antiracist public policies. This article focuses on the recent use of verification commissions to validate the racial self-identification of potential beneficiaries of ra…
Lépinard, Éléonore. 2020. Feminist Trouble: Book Review
Lépinard, Éléonore. 2020. Feminist Trouble: Intersectional Politics in Post-secular Times. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19007-715-0. 336 p
Seeing Race Like a State: Higher Education Affirmative Action Verification Commissions in Brazil
A growing body of literature has focused on how different states continuously "make race" by legitimizing certain racial categories while invisibilizing others. Much less has been written on the actual processes of transforming race into a bureaucratic category when implementing antiracist public policies. This article focuses on the recent use of verification commissions to validate the racial self-identification of potential beneficiaries of ra…
Lépinard, Éléonore. 2020. Feminist Trouble: Book Review
Lépinard, Éléonore. 2020. Feminist Trouble: Intersectional Politics in Post-secular Times. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19007-715-0. 336 p
From privileges to rights: Changing perceptions of racial quotas in Brazil
This article analyzes how the implementation of affirmative action in Brazil has changed the way people, in particular potential beneficiaries of racial quotas, understand race, inequalities, and rights.Drawing on an original collection of essays written by low-income students in a college preparatory course in Rio de Janeiro, and comparing essays written nearly twenty years apart (2003 and 2022), it shows that potential beneficiaries have become…
Seeing Race Like a State: Higher Education Affirmative Action Verification Commissions in Brazil
A growing body of literature has focused on how different states continuously "make race" by legitimizing certain racial categories while invisibilizing others. Much less has been written on the actual processes of transforming race into a bureaucratic category when implementing antiracist public policies. This article focuses on the recent use of verification commissions to validate the racial self-identification of potential beneficiaries of ra…
The icing on the cake: Negotiating diversity and intersectional ascription to gain access to Sciences Po
Since the mid-2000s, several higher education institutions in France have used merit and diversity as complementary principles in implementing equal opportunity programs. Through an ethnographic approach and an intersectional framework, this article examines how Sciences Po’s Conventions éducation prioritaire (CEP) program is received by candidates participating in preparatory workshops at high schools in Seine-Saint-Denis. The CEP candidate prof…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Affirmative action (2 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (2 works) · Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil (2 works) · Racism (2 works) · African american (1 works)