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Prunelle Aymé
Associate Research Fellow
Center for International Studies (CERI)
Duration: from 24 November 2022 to 23 November 2025
prunelle.ayme@sciencespo.frResearch Interest(s): Localized analysis of politics, Public policy, Sociology of political parties, Gender, Contemporary Turkey, Social action and charity, Conservative mobilizations
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations
Geographical Area(s): Middle East
Country(ies): Turkey
Language(s): English, French, Turkish, Spanish
Biography
Prunelle Aymé holds a PhD in political science (Sciences Po - CERI). Her research focuses on the sociology of public policy from a gender perspective and on the transformations of political domination in Turkey under the AKP. Her dissertation ("Governing with women, governing women in AKP's Turkey. Social provision in the city of Gaziantep", defended in 2022), completed under the supervision of Élise Massicard, explores women's participation in social provision and their role in AKP's local government.
Prunelle Aymé taught at Sciences Po (Paris and Menton campuses), before being a teaching fellow at the University of Rennes 1 and then at the University of Paris Dauphine.
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Current Research
Localized analysis of politics, Public policy, Sociology of political parties, Gender, Contemporary Turkey, Social action and charity, Conservative mobilizations
Thesis topic
Gouverner avec les femmes, gouverner les femmes dans la Turquie de l'AKP : l'action sociale dans la ville de Gaziantep, supervised by Elise Massicard
Teaching
• Politique comparée (Sciences Po ; Université Paris Dauphine ; L2, L3 ; TD, CM)
• Introduction à la science politique (Université Rennes 1 ; Université Paris Dauphine ; L1 ; TD, CM)
• Analyse politique des conflits internationaux (Université Rennes 1 ; L2 ; TD)
• Théories du développement (Université Rennes 1 ; M1 ; TD)
• Gender and public policy in the MENA region (Sciences Po, Campus de Menton ; L2 ; Séminaire)
• Gender in the making (Sciences Po, Summer School Pre-College Programme)
• Introduction to social sciences (Sciences Po, Summer School Pre-College Programme)
publications
« Entre contraintes et subjectivation politique : le militantisme féminin au Parti de la justice et du développement en Turquie », Critique internationale, no. 88, vol. 3, 2020, pp. 111-130.
« Housewives and entrepreneurs: local coalitions of power and the political construction of women’s entrepreneurship in Turkey », Social politics, International studies in gender, state and society, no. 29, vol. 3, 2022, pp. 856–879.
« Quitter le parti pour mieux le servir : trajectoires de reconversion des militantes de l’AKP et partisanisation du secteur de l’aide sociale », Politix, no. 138, vol. 38, 2022, pp. 179-200.
« "Nous construisons des ponts" : des femmes intermédiaires du gouvernement local sous l’AKP en Turquie », dans Benjamin Gourisse et Işıl Erdinç (dir.), La domination politique en Turquie. Une analyse relationnelle. Paris : Karthala, collection Meydan, 2022, pp. 169-190.
