Créer la science politique en milieu hostile
The symposium, organized to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the CEPEL’s founding, provided an opportunity to evoke the circumstances in which it was created. This article reviews the sequences that have marked the laboratory’s history based on incomplete archives and living memory. First, it chron...
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | The symposium, organized to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the CEPEL’s founding, provided an opportunity to evoke the circumstances in which it was created. This article reviews the sequences that have marked the laboratory’s history based on incomplete archives and living memory. First, it chronicles the prevailing hostility to any recognition of political science within Montpellier’s Faculty of Law, before and after 1968. Then, it analyzes the conflicting contexts that have favored the establishment of the discipline in structuring representations and teachings of law. Moreover, the debate between local academic training and the specific establishment of an autonomous political science community at the national level has produced an expansive field of research. The laboratory’s specialization in an “area” legitimized by the CNRS (“Southern Europe”) and the valorization of related themes and networks have fostered the adoption of a comparative focus. Its attractiveness contributed to the expansion of political science in French law faculties in the late 1990s. The launch of the journal Pôle Sud enhanced its visibility. All this led to a dynamic to conquer traditional academic institutions, culminating in a project to create an Institut d’Études Politiques. The failure of this project, due essentially to external political factors and conflicts, ultimately resulted in the laboratory’s complete assimilation into the Faculty of Law and Political Science. Eventually, through a singular case, this article addresses the synergy between a range of political, academic and institutional factors, contributing to the understanding of the transformation of French university structures. |
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