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Research Interest(s): Precarious work, moral economy, labor organisation and collective action, urban metabolism and networks
Discipline(s): Sociology
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Global economy, capitalism, extraction, State, political regimes, mobilisations
Geographical Area(s): Middle East
Country(ies): Jordan
Language(s): French, English, Arabic, Persian, Spanish
Biography
Quentin is a PhD candidate at the Centre of International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po and an associate researcher at the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo). His thesis is co-supervised by Éric Verdeil (Sciences Po) and Lilian Mathieu (ENS de Lyon). His research explores the connections between labor and mobility in urban settings, focusing on the work situations and practices of platform delivery workers and waste collectors in Amman, Jordan.
Before starting his doctoral research, Quentin conducted an initial ethnographic study of delivery workers in Amman as part of his master’s thesis, "Making Platform Work Viable: Urban Networks of Delivery and the Moral Economy of the 'Kabbātīn' in Amman" (2025), completed at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon under the supervision of Lilian Mathieu. During his academic journey, Quentin also spent several years in Beirut, Lebanon.
Thesis topic
Le travail en mouvement(s). Précarité, mobilité et (dé)mobilisation des livreurs de plateforme et collecteurs de déchets à Amman, supervised by Éric Verdeil & Lilian Mathieu
Teaching
Conférence de méthode "Inquiry in Sociology" (Collège universitaire de Sciences Po, 2e année) sur le campus du Havre (Automne 2025).
