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Dynamics of Political Participation: Disciplinary Knowledge through the Prism of “Area Studies”

Un compte rendu par Eymeric Quettier, stagiaire au CEFRES

This yearly workshop is organized within the cooperation agreement signed by EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences. The 2023 session aimed to bring together Ph.D. students around the theme of political participation, which was to be understood broadly. It invited the participants to reflect on how their knowledge is situated within “area studies” (including Central Europe, the Middle East, or Latin America) and on the concepts and disciplines they mobilize. The debates drew on the strong philological tradition of the Central European area studies, while also questioning it to analyze the relationship between disciplinary knowledge and situated knowledge. The participants reflected on the dynamics of political participation through two non-exclusionary lenses proposed by the organizers of the conference. Continuer la lecture de Dynamics of Political Participation: Disciplinary Knowledge through the Prism of “Area Studies”