Projects
Projects FNS
Activists' Carriers in Politcal Parties : Authoritarian Settings
2010 - 2012 (33 mois)
Applicant : Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi
Other partners : Philippe Blanchard, Mohamed Jeghllaly
In the Middle East and in North Africa, Islamism and involvement in voluntary associations have elicited researchers' interest, due to fears stirred up by one and hopes raised by the other. Furthermore, one idea is strongly present: the cyclic movement of activist generations with different ideologies throughout the contemporary history of the region. By examining the different types of activism in parallel fashion, rather than opposing them, this research project plans to improve and extend our knowledge of partisan activism in an authoritarian context, specifically in the Middle East and North Africa. Starting with the Moroccan case, which has been undergoing liberalization propitious to the inquiry, on one hand, it aims to analyze its sociological characteristics, the conditions and the pools from which members of ten political organizations are recruited (nationalist, leftist, extreme-leftist, Islamist, etc.). On the other hand, it seeks to clarify the modalities by which partisan activist careers are transformed at the individual and collective level.
From a sociological and comparative perspective, the objective is to examine three blind spots in the work on partisan activism: the links between social mobility and activism; the circulation of commitments between partisan spaces, unions and organized groups; and the effects of repression and cooptation on activists' careers. In adapting theoretical approaches to partisan activism to an authoritarian context, this project hopes to open up new theoretical perspectives through the decompartmentalization of research fields. In addition, the linking of qualitative and quantitative methods (the administration of a questionnaire at the national conventions of six political parties and within the Moroccan Parliament), the scale of the investigation, and its innovative character in the Middle East and North African region, at a sensitive political point in time, also allow us to hope to make a contribution to the methodological debate.
The Rise of a New Actor in the Public Sphere (Islam in Switzerland)
2007 - 2010 (36 mois)
Applicant : Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi
Other partners : Sophie Nedjar, Samina Mesgarzadeh
European Programs
REMSH
2002 - 2005 (60 mois)
Applicant : Mounia Bennani-Chraibi
Coordinator of the Swiss team (IEPHI/SSP, University of Lausanne) of the Réseau thèmatique des centres européens de recherche en sciences humaines sur le monde méditerranéen [REMSH-Theme Network of European Social Science Research Centres on the Mediterranean World], in the context of the 5th PCRDT, whose principal coordinator is the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme (MMSH-Mediterranean Social Science Centre), in Aix-en-Provence, a project supported by the European Union (2002-2005).(n° OFES: 03.0009; n° Contract: 26046211)
Others projects
Teenagers and transnational events in Morocco
2001 - 2004
Applicant : Mounia Bennani-Chraibi
In the context of the program "L'espace public à petits pas. Le monde de l'adolescence et son rapport à la société civile: études comparatives entre l'Europe du Sud et le Maghreb" (The public space in small steps. The world of adolescence and its relationship to civil society: comparative studies of the south of Europe and the Maghreb). 2001-2004
In collaboration with the Groupe de Sociology politique morale(Group of Political Moral Sociology), EHESS and the Centre d'études et de recherche sur le lien social (Centre for Studies and Research on the Social Connection)/ParisV
The course of elected officials: the impulse of parliamentary mediation in Morocco 2001-2005
Applicant : Mounia Bennani-Chraibi
In the context of the project: La "démocratisation" à l'oeuvre: les dispositifs du travail parlementaire au Maroc ("Democratization" at work: the means used in parliamentary work in Morocco)
In collaboration with the Institut de recherche et d'études sur le monde arabe et musulman (Institute of Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslin World) / CNRS, Aix-en-Provence - Integrated action project of the Commission mixte interuniversitaire franco-marocaine (Mixed Franco-Moroccan Interuniversity Committee)
Voting acts and electoral mobilization in working-class neighbourhoods of Casablanca 2002-2004
Composition of a research group on "Les élections 2002 au Maroc" (the Moroccan 2002 elections), in the context of a collaboration between IEPI of UNIL and the Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et musulman / CNRS in Aix en Provence
Support by the Fondation du 450ème Anniversaire de l'Université de Lausanne (Foundation of the 450th Anniversary of the University of Lausanne)
Collective action at the local level in the Maghreb
Laboratoire Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux (the Research Centre for Social Movements), EHESS, Paris
Fonds de solidarité Prioritaire (The Priority Solidarity Fund)France
