Article Dans Une Revue Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS) Année : 2024

French academia, Gaza and Israel after October 7, 2023. A critical assessment

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Wars act as trying periods for a wide range of actors. The multifaceted effects of violent conflict on academic production in the social sciences have received little critical self-reflexive scrutiny. The object of this paper is to highlight the varied recompositions in academia in wartime by focusing on France and the war in Gaza that followed the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel. While presenting the fields of Palestinian and Israeli studies in French universities as largely separate due to distinct institutional subcultures, the paper then highlights how recent developments are breaching the norms that structure the ordered production of knowledge. Interestingly, these violations are occurring less because of an extreme polarization within the field of academia, than because of the attitude of external actors, in particular French public institutions that are using both populist discourses denouncing woke ideologies in universities and anti-terrorism laws to put pressure on academics.
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hal-04871879 , version 1 (08-01-2025)

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Laurent Bonnefoy. French academia, Gaza and Israel after October 7, 2023. A critical assessment. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 2024, 6 (1), pp.27-43. ⟨10.1163/25903276-bja10064⟩. ⟨hal-04871879⟩
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