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Nielsen, C. & Premat, C. (2024). Beyond the Performance Principle: Marcuse and the Modern Work Ethic. In: Eduardo Altheman C. Santos; Jina Fast; Nicole K. Mayberry; Sid Simpson (Ed.), The Marcusean mind: (pp. 304-315). Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Beyond the Performance Principle: Marcuse and the Modern Work Ethic
2024 (English)In: The Marcusean mind / [ed] Eduardo Altheman C. Santos; Jina Fast; Nicole K. Mayberry; Sid Simpson, Routledge, 2024, p. 304-315Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The contemporary work paradigm is deeply flawed, as evidenced by mounting wealth inequality, precarious work conditions, and the climate and environmental crises. Herbert Marcuse’s writings offer insights for those seeking societal change. Marcuse, like post-work thinkers, critiques how society reduces humans to labour instruments, perpetuating a cycle of ‘surplus repression’ and undermining cooperation. He argues that the modern work ethic falsely equates human fulfilment with the attainment of material wealth, shaping our aspirations to fit the demands of the productive apparatus. Marcuse can be seen as an inspiration for post-work thought in his advocacy for freedom beyond work’s confines and his exposure to the problematic articulation of democracy and economy in liberal orders. Drawing on Marcuse, the chapter reveals how capitalism’s diversion of the human search for happiness today functions to strengthen its control of individuals and perpetuate work precarity. Emancipation requires reevaluating the work’s purpose and creating an autonomous public space beyond market values. Marcuse’s ideas urge a reimagining of societal structures, in which productivity-driven imperatives are subjected to the demands of human and planetary flourishing, aligning with contemporary critiques of work and advocating for a more equitable and fulfilling future.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024
Keywords
Performance Principle; Work Ethic; Post-Work Movement; Economic Democracy; Alienation
National Category
Philosophy History of Ideas
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-234064 (URN)10.4324/9781003381020-31 (DOI)9781003381020 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-10-06 Created: 2024-10-06 Last updated: 2024-10-07Bibliographically approved
Premat, C. (2024). Brian Mulroney a été l’artisan d’une réconciliation entre le Canada et la Francophonie. The Conversation
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Brian Mulroney a été l’artisan d’une réconciliation entre le Canada et la Francophonie
2024 (French)In: The ConversationArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [fr]

 Email X (Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn PrintL’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, communément appelée Francophonie, représente les pays et régions francophones du monde entier.

Malgré les critiques persistantes sur sa nature bureaucratique, les origines de la Francophonie remontent à la création de la première agence multilatérale francophone au Niger, en mars 1970. Cette organisation est née d’un débat politique et d’un consensus.

Keywords
Mulroney, Canada, multiculturalisme, Francophonie, Commonwealth
National Category
Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-227619 (URN)
Funder
Nordic Council of Ministers, NPHE-2020/10138
Note

Publicerad 2024-03-20

Available from: 2024-03-21 Created: 2024-03-21 Last updated: 2024-03-22Bibliographically approved
Premat, C. (2024). Brian Mulroney should be recognized for increasing the impact of the Francophonie. The Conversation
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Brian Mulroney should be recognized for increasing the impact of the Francophonie
2024 (English)In: The ConversationArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [en]

The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, commonly known as the Francophonie, represents French-speaking countries and regions worldwide.

Despite enduring criticism about its bureaucratic nature, the Francophonie’s origins date back to the establishment of the first multilateral francophone agency in Niger in March 1970 and was born of political debate and consensus.

Keywords
Mulroney, Canada, Francophonie, Commonwealth, multiculturalism
National Category
Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-227618 (URN)
Note

Publicerad 2024-03-12

Available from: 2024-03-21 Created: 2024-03-21 Last updated: 2024-03-22Bibliographically approved
Premat, C., De Waele, J.-M. & Perottino, M. (Eds.). (2024). Comparing the place of experts during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stockholm University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Comparing the place of experts during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
2024 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The health crisis the world is going through is arguably the first contemporary “global crisis” that threatens the world with generalized anomy and its new economic option, globalization. It has struck China, settles in Europe, strikes heavily in the United States and Latin America, and is spreading rapidly in other continents. The same problem has to be faced by different States and it addresses fascinating questions to social and political sciences. To understand, we must compare said political scientist Giovanni Sartori. Comparing the way in which States are managing this crisis can allow us to understand the global crisis and the national specificities. The first reaction of the States is a considerable predilection for sanitary methods of quarantine and containment. The aim is to understand the effects of this crisis on every political system and every legal system. How were the actions taken, received, approved or challenged? How do different national political cultures adapt to new situations? What does this tell us about each of the societies, about each of the political regimes and, ultimately, about the place of the State in contemporary societies? Are the legal instruments one of the means to manage the crisis? Is the organization of the State reinforced or weakened in the context of the health emergency? What do these levers tell us about the metamorphoses of the contemporary State in a period of unprecedented health crisis?

Since April 2020, a new research network in political science, discourse analysis and law has been established on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the States (Posoc19, Pouvoirs et Sociétés Face à la Crise du COVID-19). The objective of the current project is to focus on the axis of expertise in order to empower the network and be able to compare the ways in which political systems are based on scientific expertise. To what extent is political power based on scientific expertise? Is the expertise autonomous?

What is the effect of expertise on public opinion? How does it help to fight against the spread of fake news? A research group inside the network Posoc19 has been established in May 2020 and focuses on the comparison of experts' profiles and discourses. During the spring of 2020 and during the COVID-19 pandemic, new expert figures emerged in connection with public health issues. In some countries, official expert figures have even imposed themselves in order to be able to legitimize the decisions taken by the political authorities, while in other countries, there has been more visibility of conflicts of expertise involving experts appointed by political power (sacralization of the expert who in this case assumes a political function, with or without political responsibility to bear) versus university experts and researchers. In addition, the media have sometimes selected certain experts for other reasons (proximity to lobbies, in particular pharmaceuticals, political and / or partisan positions, relations with a cabinet or a company, etc.), which made the situation even more complex. In some cases "super experts" have emerged, in others more collegial formats have been chosen.

Some countries opted for mixed strategies with a combination of superexperts and committees. In addition to the fundamental question of the choice of experts (on a political, scientific, media, etc. basis) there has also been the question of political responsibility for the choices made, both in the short and in the long term. The gradual shift to a slower time frame (after the first few weeks in an emergency) makes it possible to ask questions and offer an analysis of different national cases, especially when economic imperatives seem to be taking over. It is also important to know if the experts influenced incumbent politicians on the choice of a strategy or if it was the strategy that made politicians choose the experts. The analysis of public policies is relevant here in order to compare the actors (experts / committees / government / administration /politicians), the agenda and the nature of the decision. The final aim of the research is to produce an accurate typology of systems of expertise due to the comparative approach.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm University Press, 2024. p. 530
Series
Stockholm Studies in Romance Languages, ISSN 2002-0724 ; 10
Keywords
Media studies; Social psychology; Social representations ; Sociology of experts; Sociology of health; Bureaucracy; Discourse analysis; Public administration; Public policies; Communication studies; Political Science
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies) Cultural Studies
Research subject
Romance Languages
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-233314 (URN)10.16993/bco (DOI)978-91-7635-247-2 (ISBN)978-91-7635-249-6 (ISBN)978-91-7635-250-2 (ISBN)
Note

Projektet finansierades av Ottawa University samt av Romling (forskning inom romanska språk; projektnummer 30000294)

Available from: 2024-09-09 Created: 2024-09-09 Last updated: 2024-09-12Bibliographically approved
Premat, C. (2024). Contourner les catastrophes, le défi chaophone de Frankétienne. Paper presented at The presentation was made during an online conference given by Centre Universitaire de Mayotte et Laboratoire LISAA, Université Gustave Eiffel and Mélanges Caraïbes (15-16 December 2022) on "Decolonial ecology in the margins of the world". The presentation shows how the Haitian artist and writer Frankétienne proposed an aesthetic of chaos that allows us to think about the world in its successive collapses. See Premat, Christophe (2022). Contourner les catastrophes, le défi chaophone de Frankétienne. Stockholm University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.21711032.v1. NaKan, a journal of cultural studies
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Contourner les catastrophes, le défi chaophone de Frankétienne
2024 (French)In: NaKan, a journal of cultural studies, ISSN 2779-6981Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

With the alignment of opinion and thought around the fear of climate change, one wonders whether literature is not being given a role in documenting or even projecting a world caught up in physical constraints. This impoverishment of imaginary reinforces the feeling of green-washing with a risk of reification; there is thus a need to explore the outlines of a decolonial ecology. In Haiti, marked by memories of a successful revolution with the installation of the world’s first black republic, the socio-historical violence caused by colonialism and dictatorship has accentuated the succession of natural disasters like the Earthquake in 2010. This is why a certain generation of French-speaking writers such as Frankétienne have proposed the canons of a spiralist aesthetic that finds in language a vitalist poetics with the promotion of a chaophony that can bypass the repetition of catastrophes and thwart the traps of discourse. This article presents Frankétienne’s chaophony and connects this poetic ambition to this spiralist aesthetic that renews the framework of decoloniality.

Keywords
catastrophe, decoloniality, chaophony, Frankétienne, spiralism
National Category
Cultural Studies Specific Literatures
Research subject
Romance Languages, Specialisation in French
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-225726 (URN)
Conference
The presentation was made during an online conference given by Centre Universitaire de Mayotte et Laboratoire LISAA, Université Gustave Eiffel and Mélanges Caraïbes (15-16 December 2022) on "Decolonial ecology in the margins of the world". The presentation shows how the Haitian artist and writer Frankétienne proposed an aesthetic of chaos that allows us to think about the world in its successive collapses. See Premat, Christophe (2022). Contourner les catastrophes, le défi chaophone de Frankétienne. Stockholm University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.21711032.v1
Note

Man kan läsa en presentation av artikeln på följande sidan: Premat, Christophe (2022). Contourner les catastrophes, le défi chaophone de Frankétienne. Stockholm University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.21711032.v1

Available from: 2024-01-22 Created: 2024-01-22 Last updated: 2024-01-24Bibliographically approved
Premat, C., De Waele, J.-M. & Perottino, M. (2024). Introduction: The legitimacy of experts in the public space during the pandemic. In: Christophe Emmanuel Premat, Jean-Michel De Waele, Michel Perottino (Ed.), Comparing the place of expertsduring the first waves of theCOVID-19 pandemic: (pp. 1-22). Stockholm University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Introduction: The legitimacy of experts in the public space during the pandemic
2024 (English)In: Comparing the place of expertsduring the first waves of theCOVID-19 pandemic / [ed] Christophe Emmanuel Premat, Jean-Michel De Waele, Michel Perottino, Stockholm University Press, 2024, p. 1-22Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In the first volume of his memoirs, former President Barack Obama commented on the situation with the H1N1 virus in 2010 during his first mandate. Over a few weeks, around 12,000 persons died of the virus, and the President and his staff were confronted with difficult decisions. They consulted veteran task force workers who had been engaged in President Gerald Ford’s government during 1976’s swine flu epidemic (Obama, 2020, p. 468). One of those people gave him this piece of advice: “You should engage in the question (…) but you should let the experts handle the process”(Obama, 2020, p. 469). This person was thinking of President Ford’s hasty decision to make vaccination against swine flu oblig-atory. The vaccination campaign had serious complications and caused scepticism and mistrust in the population. Ex-President Obama followed that advice and made every decision according to the best research available in the field. But what did the best research mean in this context? What kind of experts were consulted by governments and which experts delivered advice? Were experts real political advisors or did they only legitimise political decisions afterwards? Here, the voice of the experts was understood to be in a context where there was a strong uncertainty about the spread of the virus.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm University Press, 2024
Series
Stockholm Studies in Romance Languages, ISSN 2002-0724 ; 10
Keywords
Media studies, Social psychology, Social representations, Sociology of experts, Sociology of health, Bureaucracy, Discourse analysis, Public administration, Public policies, Communication studies, Political Science
National Category
Cultural Studies Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
Research subject
Romance Languages
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-233316 (URN)10.16993/bco.a (DOI)978-91-7635-247-2 (ISBN)
Note

Projektet finansierades av Ottawa University samt av Romling (forskning inom romanska språk; projektnummer 30000294

Available from: 2024-09-09 Created: 2024-09-09 Last updated: 2024-09-12Bibliographically approved
Premat, C. (2024). La littérature autochtone francophone fait désormais partie du paysage culturel, au Québec et dans le monde. The Conversation
Open this publication in new window or tab >>La littérature autochtone francophone fait désormais partie du paysage culturel, au Québec et dans le monde
2024 (French)In: The ConversationArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [fr]

La Journée internationale des populations autochtones est célébrée le 9 août et donne l’occasion de revenir sur l’affirmation de la littérature autochtone au Québec.

Cette littérature a émergé en 1976 avec la publication du livre autobiographique d’An Antane Kapesh (1926-2004), Je suis une maudite sauvagesse. Une nouvelle phase est désormais atteinte depuis quelques années alors que la multiplication des conférences et des festivals attestent d’un fort ancrage éditorial.

Keywords
littérature autochtone, décolonial, Michel Jean, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, poésie
National Category
Specific Languages
Research subject
Romance Languages, Specialisation in French
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-232551 (URN)
Note

Publicerad 2024-08-08

Available from: 2024-08-19 Created: 2024-08-19 Last updated: 2024-08-28Bibliographically approved
Premat, C. & Boulianne-Tremblay, G. (2024). La naissance de la fille d’elle-même - Entretien avec Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay. Revue nordique des études francophones, 7(1), 21-26
Open this publication in new window or tab >>La naissance de la fille d’elle-même - Entretien avec Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay
2024 (French)In: Revue nordique des études francophones, ISSN 2003-0401, Vol. 7, no 1, p. 21-26Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [fr]

Voici un entretien réalisé avec l’écrivaine Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay sur son premier roman La fille d’elle-même.

Keywords
Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay; La fille d’elle-même; trans-narrator; Quebec; transgender identity, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, La fille d’elle-même, trans-narrateur, Québec, transidentité
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Romance Languages, Specialisation in French
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-229087 (URN)10.16993/rnef.120 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-05-08 Created: 2024-05-08 Last updated: 2024-09-12Bibliographically approved
Premat, C. (2024). Le fruit le plus rare ou la vie d’Edmond Albius by Gaëlle Bélem [Review]. World literature today, 68-68
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Le fruit le plus rare ou la vie d’Edmond Albius by Gaëlle Bélem
2024 (English)In: World literature today, ISSN 0196-3570, E-ISSN 1945-8134, p. 68-68Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

With her second novel, just published by Gallimard, Gaëlle Bélem takes the reader into the history of Reunion Island, long known as Bourbon Island. With her highly precise style, she follows in the footsteps of the slave Edmond Albius, who discovered the secret of making vanilla by fertilizing the stamen with the pistil. Indeed, how could a slave be the inventor of an enigma prized by the world’s powerful leaders?

Keywords
Reunion island, Gaëlle Bélem, vanilla, Edmond Albius, pistil
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Romance Languages, Specialisation in French
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-227130 (URN)
Available from: 2024-03-02 Created: 2024-03-02 Last updated: 2024-03-04Bibliographically approved
Premat, C. (2024). Le Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie dans la reconnaissance des écrivains africains. French Studies in South Africa, 54(1), 40-69
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Le Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie dans la reconnaissance des écrivains africains
2024 (French)In: French Studies in South Africa, ISSN 0259-0247, Vol. 54, no 1, p. 40-69Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Since 2001, the Francophonie has established the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie to annually honour a Francophone author. In addition to the award, the International Organization of the Francophonie accompanies the laureate in a promotional strategy through various events such as book fairs, conventions, and interviews, which have a significant editorial impact. Drawing on the study of the social trajectory of these writers at the time they receive the award, as well as an analysis of the discourse present in a corpus of 642 French-language press articles mentioning this award between 2001 and 2023, the article demonstrates that its objective is to consolidate the careers of Francophone African writers rather than to introduce them to the literary scene. This study highlights that this award does not necessarily constitute the central element of recognition for these Francophone African writers, but rather increases their visibility. This perception is notably conveyed by journalists from French-language newspapers and weeklies commenting each year on the awarding of the Prix des cinq continents.

Keywords
Prix des Cinq Continents: Francophonie ; consécration ; écrivains africains ; trajectoire
National Category
Specific Literatures
Research subject
Romance Languages, Specialisation in French
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-234035 (URN)
Available from: 2024-10-03 Created: 2024-10-03 Last updated: 2024-10-04Bibliographically approved
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