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Camille Abescat
Associate Research Fellow
Center for International Studies (CERI)
Duration: from 12 June 2023 to 12 May 2026
camille.abescat@sciencespo.frDiscipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations
Geographical Area(s): Southern Africa, East Africa and The Horn
Country(ies): Kenya, Namibia, Uganda
Language(s): French, Spanish, Arabic
Biography
Camille Abescat holds a PhD in political science (Sciences Po - CERI) and is a postdoctoral researcher in the MENA-PERC ERC project at the Scuola Normale Superiore Sant'Anna (DIRPOLIS). Her doctoral dissertation, supervised by Éric Verdeil (CERI-Sciences Po) and Élise Massicard (CNRS/CERI-Sciences Po), focused on the renewal of parliamentary roles and registers of political legitimization in Jordan. Her current research focuses on the sociology of parliaments, political work, electoral processes and political parties in Jordan and Tunisia.
Camille Abescat is also a research fellow in the North Africa-Middle East program of Noria Research, and coordinator of the Noria's editorial team. As such, she co-directs the production of the podcast Sous Terrain.
She is also a graduate of the University of Jordan in classical Arabic and of IFPO in classical and dialectal Arabic.
Thesis topic
Dans la chambre du royaume : les parlementaires face à l'évolution des conditions d'exercice du métier politique en Jordanie (2016-2023), supervised by Élise Massicard & Éric Verdeil
Teaching
« Introduction à la science politique », Sciences Po Paris, Campus de Menton (48h)
« The Politics of the Middle East and North Africa » (teaching assistant), Sciences Po Paris (16h)
publications
Dans des revues à comité de lecture
« Jillian Schwedler, Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2022, 392 p. », Mondes arabes, vol.2, n° 4, 2023, p. 159-162.
« Représenter sans parti ? Conceptions et prises de rôles concurrentes au sein du Parlement jordanien (2016-2022) », Mondes arabes, vol. 2, n° 2, 2022, pp. 109-134.
« Terrain « sans contact » : l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie », avec Pablo Barnier-Khawam, Alix Chaplain, Léonard Colomba-Petteng, Claire Duboscq, Ronan Jacquin, Elisabeth Miljkovic, Sophie Russo, Jusmeet S. Sihra, Anaëlle Vergonjeanne, Tracés Revue de sciences humaines, n° 42, 2022, pp. 75-93.
« Les élections législatives de 2020 en Jordanie : stratégies et modalités de conquête de l’espace politique », Critique internationale, vol. 94, n° 1, 2022, pp. 77-97.
