Location:
Sociologie des mobilisations informelles en Tunisie et Yémen”
Lieu : Salle S1, 2e étage, 28 rue des Saints-Pères - 75007 Paris
Benoît Challand, professeur associé à la New School for Social Research, New York
Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po-CERI
Laurent Bonnefoy, Sciences Po-CERI
Nadia Marzouki, Sciences Po-CERI
Responsable scientifique : Stéphane Lacroix
A conference organized in partnership with the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA)
Prevailing discussions about economic crisis in the Middle East pay inadequate attention to the political constraints that limit the horizon of development. Neither old state-led economic approaches nor the neoliberal templates that replaced them have resolved the chronic underdevelopment of the region.
Newer paradigms today are based upon a reformulated version of state-led capitalism, namely the so-called “Gulf model” as well as the economic dualism practiced in non-rentier states. Yet these templates of development suffer social vulnerability and political limitations, the latter reflecting the elite-centric structures of governance that still characterize political authority. Imagining a more productive future requires not reformulating technocratic logics that have failed, but rather conceiving of more pluralistic political institutions capable of rendering economic decisions more accountable to popular interests.
Welcome : Stéphanie Balme, Sciences Po - CERI
Introduction : Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po - CERI
Guest Speaker : Hicham Alaoui, University of California Berkeley
Discussant : Ishac Diwan, Paris School of Economics
Biography : Dr. Hicham Alaoui is a political science lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder and director of the Hicham Alaoui Foundation, which undertakes innovative social scientific research in the Middle East and North Africa. He currently also serves on the Advisory Board of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a scholar on the comparative politics of democratization and religion. His latest publications include the monograph Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave, 2022), as well as the co-edited volumes The Political Economy of Arab Education (Lynne Rienner, 2021) and Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges… and the Need for Change (Lynne Rienner, 2023). He holds an A.B. from Princeton University, M.A. from Stanford University, and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.
Scientific coordinator : Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po - CERI
Événement en présentiel
Lieu : Salle K011, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin - 75007 Paris
Pour inaugurer le nouveau Programme Afrique de Sciences Po, un cycle de conférences « Littérature et sciences sociales en Afrique », animé par Elara Bertho (CNRS) et Elgas, sociologue et écrivain sénégalais, a été lancé en octobre 2023. Les quatre premiers invités étaient Sami Tchak, Gauz, Hemley Boum et Beata Umubyeyi.
Pour la cinquième séance, nous accueillons l’écrivain malgache Johary Ravaloson, auteur entre autres de Vol à vif (Dodo Vole Edition, Prix Ivoire 2017), Amour, patrie et soupe de crabes (Dodo Vole Edition, 2019), Le Tribunal des cailloux (Dodo Vole Edition, 2024).
Nouvelles narrations malgaches du contemporain
Discutant.e.s :
Elara Bertho, CNRS - LAM & Programme Afrique Sciences Po
El Hadj Souleymane Gassama, dit Elgas, journaliste à RFI, chercheur associé à l'Iris et écrivain
Ramata N’Diaye, URMIS – Université Paris Cité
Responsable scientifique de l'événement : Richard Banégas, Sciences Po-CERI