Marie Laure Geoffray
University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle
Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique latine (IHEAL)
Maître de conférences
desiguALdades.net: Postdoctoral Researcher (01/11/2010 - 31/03/2012)
75007 Paris7, France
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Academic Career
| 11/2010 - 10/2012 | Postdoctural Researcher desiguALdades.net |
| 2005-2010 | Ph.D in political science – IEP Paris, Contentious spaces and authoritarian contexts, the Cuban case |
| 2003-2004 | MA in international relations – Sorbonne (with honors) |
| 1995-1999 | BA and MA in anglophone arts and literature – Sorbonne Nouvelle (with honors) |
| 1997-2002 | Ecole Normale Supérieure (Fontenay-Saint Cloud) |
Teaching Experience
| Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2010 | Lecturer (full time) – IHEAL-Classes taught: introduction to political science, Latin American contemporary issues, research methodology, reading social sciences in English, democracy and globalization. -Supervisor for Master I student theses. -In charge of the exchange program for Latin American professors |
| Oct. 2009 | Invited lecturer at Externado University, Columbia, for a series of conferences |
| Sept. 2005 – Jan. 2006 | In charge of international relations at the National Assembly of University Presidents |
| Oct. 2004 – Sept. 2005 | In charge of cultural affairs at the French Consulate of Recife, Brazil |
| July – Sept. 2004 | Professional internship at ECLAC, Mexico DF, Mexico |
| August 1998—June 1999 | French lecturer at Duke University, North Carolina, USA |
New Transnational Configurations, Inequaltities and the Public Sphere
My research proposal deals with the complex relationships between socio-political inequalities and the public sphere. The possibility to access the public sphere indeed constitutes an essential part of being a citizen, since it is the place where inequalities are being dealt with and often reproduced due to its control by elites. In this sense, the unequal access to the public sphere can be seen as an overarching kind of inequality. It shows that the different kinds of inequality are actually interdependent. Access to the public sphere therefore needs to be considered to understand broader dynamics of inequality production. I chose to analyze the relations between the two through the use of new technologies by citizens and because they allow for a multidimensional approach, andto help us take into account the questions regarding transnational underpinnings. To address this question in a dynamic fashion, I will focus on the transnational configuration of social actors, public spaces and communication flows which deal with controversies on Cuban political issues, as it materializes in an emergent and semi integrated transnational blogosphere. This configuration indeed seems especially relevant because it is at the juncture of multilevel interdependencies between different types of inequalities, between diasporas and home countries, between macro actors states, institutions, micro actors, citizens and activists also between local and global dynamics. To put it in a nutshell, this configuration enables us to take into account the local, transnational and transregional aspects of the question.
Peer reviewed journals
-« Etudier la contestation en contexte autoritaire. Le cas cubain », dans le dossier « Observer les mobilisations », coordonné par Hélènes Combes, Choukri Hmed, Lilian Mathieu, Johanna Siméant, Isabelle Sommier, Politix n° 93, juillet 2011.
-« Des intellectuels cubains après la chute du Mur », Genèses, vol. 4, n° 77, 2009, pp. 7-29.
-« La construcción de nuevas practicas políticas en Cuba », Cuadernos Latinoamericanos n°5, enero-junio, 2009, pp. 35-55.
-« Cuba : de la révolution à la réforme », introduction au dossier « Cuba : 50 ans d’expérience révolutionnaire», Cahiers des Amériques Latines n° 57/58, 2008, pp. 17-30 (avec Silvina Testa)
-« Dynamiques de résistance aux normes révolutionnaires », Cahiers des Amériques Latines, n°54/55, 2008, pp. 211-228.
Work as an Editor:
Coordination du dossier « Cuba : 50 ans d’expérience révolutionnaire », Cahiers des Amériques Latines n° 57/58, 2008 (avec Silvina Testa)
Book chapters
-« Coproduire l’ordre social par des modes de répression participatifs », dans Manuel Le Boucher (dir.), Regards croisés sur la régulation sociale des désordres, Paris, L’Harmattan, (à paraître)
-« Cuba : des changements politiques et sociaux limités », in Georges Couffignal (dir.), Amérique Latine 2009, Paris, La Documentation Française, 2009, pp. 29-38.
-« Symbolic emancipation in authoritarian Cuba », in Mauricio Font (ed.), Changing Cuba/Changing World, New York, Bildner Center, 2008, pp. 103-120.
Other Articles
-« Sans transition », introduction au niveau spécial « 50 ans de Révolution cubaine », EchoGéo n° 12 (avec Violaine Jolivet), 2010.
-Biographie de Raul Castro, Encyclopédie Universalis, 2010
-Biographie de Fidel Castro, Encyclopédie Universalis, 2008
Book Reviews
Violaine Roussel (dir.), Artistes et politique. Terrains franco-américains, Paris, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2010. Compte-rendu dans la Revue Française de Science Politique, à paraître été 2010.
Violaine Roussel, Art vs War. Les artistes américains contre la guerre en Irak. Violaine Roussel, Presses de Sciences Po, 2011. Compte-rendu dans la Revue Française de Science Politique, (à paraître)
