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Whilst the politicization of the EU has been increasingly studied over recent years, the analysis has been focusing mainly on political parties and media. Thus, although not completely overlooked, studies looking at EU politicization amongst individuals remain scarce. This article presents a new qualitative dataset from 21 focus groups conducted across social groups and four countries. It was designed to observe processes of (de-)politicization at citizens' level, how they talk about the EU and along which cleavages are their attitudes structured. This comparative research design sheds new light on discourses and opinions on Europe, mechanisms of politicization and political discussions.

Note from the Dictionnaire critique et interdisciplinaire de la Participation on the "Law of participatory democracy": proposed definition, and highlighting of the major issues that run through the question. The Dicopart is published by Gis Démocratie et Participation. Free access.

This article studies how social epidemiologists get involved in research carried out on rodent models to explore the biological pathways underpinning exposure to social adversity in early life. We analyze their interdisciplinary exchanges with biologists in a social epigenetics project-i.e., in the experimental study of molecular alterations following social exposures. We argue that social epidemiologists are ambivalent regarding the use of non-human animal models on two levels: first, in terms of whether such models provide scientific evidence useful to social epidemiology, and second, regarding whether such models help promote their conception of public health. While they maintain expectations towards rodent experiments by elevating their functional value over their representational potential, they fear that their research will contribute to a public health approach that focuses on individual responsibility rather than the social causes of health inequalities. This interdisciplinary project demonstrates the difficulties encountered when research in social epigenetics engages with the complexities of laboratory experiments and social environments, as well as the conflicting sociopolitical projects stemming from such research.

Pre-trial detention in Côte d'Ivoire is the subject of debate. When it becomes unjustified and systematic, leading to overcrowding and degrading treatment, it becomes intolerable. Penal reforms have been undertaken, but they have not succeeded in curbing the situation. What's more, they reveal the difficulties involved in thinking through changes to the prison and justice systems. Our focus on the tension between the lack of understanding of procedures by those primarily concerned, and the logics of standardization, nonetheless allows us to sketch out a methodological approach to the dynamics of confinement and the state. This book is the result of a desire to cross perspectives. It examines the reform processes at work in Côte d'Ivoire and other countries in the sub-Saharan region, to reveal the "unthought" behind the internationalization of penal reform in this region.

Whilst the politicization of the EU has been increasingly studied over recent years, the analysis has been focusing mainly on political parties and media. Thus, although not completely overlooked, studies looking at EU politicization amongst individuals remain scarce. This article presents a new qualitative dataset from 21 focus groups conducted across social groups and four countries. It was designed to observe processes of (de-)politicization at citizens' level, how they talk about the EU and along which cleavages are their attitudes structured. This comparative research design sheds new light on discourses and opinions on Europe, mechanisms of politicization and political discussions.

Whilst the politicization of the EU has been increasingly studied over recent years, the analysis has been focusing mainly on political parties and media. Thus, although not completely overlooked, studies looking at EU politicization amongst individuals remain scarce. This article presents a new qualitative dataset from 21 focus groups conducted across social groups and four countries. It was designed to observe processes of (de-)politicization at citizens' level, how they talk about the EU and along which cleavages are their attitudes structured. This comparative research design sheds new light on discourses and opinions on Europe, mechanisms of politicization and political discussions.

Note from the Dictionnaire critique et interdisciplinaire de la Participation on the "Law of participatory democracy": proposed definition, and highlighting of the major issues that run through the question. The Dicopart is published by Gis Démocratie et Participation. Free access.

Interview [conducted by Pascal Bonnard and Frédéric Zalewski, Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, N° 2021/2], with Simon Godard author of a thesis in contemporary history, entitled "Construire le "bloc'' par l'économie. Configuration des territoires et des identités socialistes au Conseil d'aide économique mutuelle (CAEM), 1949-1989" (defended in 2014) "His work focuses on the history of communism, the socio-history of the economy, the history of Europe, the construction and circulation of economic knowledge and the analysis of transnational networks. In this interview, he takes a comparative look at the dynamics of disintegration in the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s, culminating in the collapse of the USSR in 1991. In particular, he shows how the history of the CAEM sheds light on the logics of institutionalization and acculturation that were at work even in conditions as specific as those of this organization, which was so dependent on the Cold War, and also puts into perspective the integration processes at work on the European continent, both before and after 1991.