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Social movements and mobilisation typologies in the arab spring

Objective

The present proposal aims to revitalize and to reinforce the Europe-Arab World exchange in the field of research and training in Social Sciences, during a peculiar historical moment, characterized by the socio-political changes that have taken place in the last year in the Southern Mediterranean Arabic societies. Paying attention to the new context, the proposal will especially focus research on social and political movements in the frame of change dynamics and applying a comparative approach, taking particularly into account the experience of Eastern European countries. The proposal objectives are to contribute to the enrichment of the analytical interpretation and to the monitoring of the social, political ans cultural processes that have taken and are taking place in the arabic World, through the collection of new empirical materials and the development of innovative analytical tools from different disciplines (political science, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, religious studies, media) in an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. These tools will be developped through the active participation of early researchers in the implementation of the proposal, articulating fields surveys and conceptual appoach: structuring exchanges through interdisciplinary training sessions to be followed by mixed groups of junior researchers from the Arab and European universities; implementing a joint doctoral program; organizing conferences, workshops and managerial meetings in different universities of Europe and Maghreb.
Consequently, the outcomes of the proposal will contribute to the ongoing international academic and political debate on social and political change to reach a best governance. It will also contribute to bring fresh knowledge in the study of concepts and theories concerning political mobilisation, social movements, youth movements; democracy, citizenship, identity policy. Finaly the proposal will support critical and autonomous social sciences

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES
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Coordinator

UNIVERSITE PARIS 8 VINCENNES SAINT-DENIS
EU contribution
€ 245 100,00
Address
RUE DE LA LIBERTE 2
93526 Saint-Denis
France

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Region
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Seine-Saint-Denis
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Administrative Contact
Aissa Kadri (Mr.)
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Total cost
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