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Lucien Thabourey
PhD Candidate
Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)
Research Interest(s): Environmental movements, civil disobedience, repertoires of action, relations with the state, France/England, quantitative and qualitative methods.
Biography
1. Research
Lucien Thabourey is a PhD student at Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) since September 2021 and a temporary teaching and research assistant (ATER) at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines since January 2026.
His thesis explores how ecological civil disobedience movements and activists in France and England relate to the state.
2. Teaching
- Introduction to political science (Sciences Po, Poitiers Campus, spring 2022): main concepts and tools in political science, introduction to the reading and discussion of scientific texts.
- Introduction to sociology (Sciences Po, Poitiers Campus, spring 2022): main concepts and authors in sociology, introduction to fieldwork through interviews.
Thesis topic
Disobeying and relying on the State: Petitionary disobedience by environmental movements in France and England
Teaching
2026 – Introduction to Political Sociology (54 hours of tutorials, first-year undergraduate level, UVSQ)
2026 – Collective Action (36 hours of tutorials, first-year undergraduate level, UVSQ)
2026 – Sociology of Political Participation (24 hours of lectures, third-year undergraduate level, UVSQ)
2026 – Socio-history of political institutions: 19th–20th centuries (15 hours of lectures, third-year undergraduate level, UVSQ)
2026 – Political Ideas and an Introduction to Academic Methodology (36 hours of tutorials, first-year level, UVSQ)
2024 – Studying social movements through environmental activism (24 hours of seminar-style lectures designed by the lecturer, L2 level, Sciences Po Paris)
2024 – Introduction to Sociology (48 hours of tutorials, first-year level, Sciences Po Paris)
2022 – Introduction to Political Science (14 hours of tutorials, first-year level, Sciences Po Paris)
2022 – Introduction to Sociology (24 hours of tutorials, first-year level, Sciences Po Paris)
publications
Academic articles
- Lucien Thabourey. Repression as the Closing of the Public Space and Sphere: The Multi-dimensional Repression of Climate Civil Disobedience in Britain. Partecipazione E Conflitto, 19(2), pp. 478–497
- Simon Audebert, Lucien Thabourey. Les mouvements écologistes de désobéissance civile face à la métropole. Ecorev' - Revue critique d'écologie politique, 2024, 56(1), pp.77-94
Book chapters
- Gaspard d'Allens, Lucien Thabourey. Répression : la criminalisation des mouvements écologistes. Laure Teulières; Steve Hagimont; Jean-Michel Hupé. Greenbacklash. Qui veut la peau de l'écologie ?, Seuil, pp.259-266, 2025, Écocène, 2021591220.
- Sylvie Ollitrault, Lucien Thabourey. Désobéissance civile. Presses de Sciences Po. Dictionnaire d'écologie politique, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.155-162, 2025
- Alexis Clot, Lucien Thabourey. Répertoires d’action écologistes. Les Presses de Sciences Po. Dictionnaire d'écologie politique, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.446-450, 2025.