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Dear all, This email to announce a new session of the seminar series "French Politics: A Neighbour's 'History of the Present'", next Wednesday 4 December, 6-7.30 pm, at the University of Westminster, in the Main Boardroom (309 Regent Street W1B 2HT). As part of the cycle "An Authoritarian Spiral in France?", the Centre for the Study of Democracy and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture invites Fabien Jobard (CNRS/CESDIP). Fabien Jobard's paper is titled: "Liberal, Authoritarian, or Police State? Defining the French State According to its Police" The session will be chaired by Graham Smith (CSD). Abstract: For some years, French police has arguably radicalised its modes of action. The “record” of the yellow vests’ demonstrations (November 2018-November 2019) is unprecedented among Western European democracies since World War 2. Indeed, one person died and more than 2,000 people were injured, among whom 25 were enucleated and 5 lost their hand or foot. President Emmanuel Macron won the 2017 elections with a resolutely liberal political programme, which was inspired by Margaret Thatcher and maybe more by Gerhard Schröder. My talk is an attempt to think the relation between, on the one hand, the form assumed by the police and, on the other hand, the type of political regime. Does French police represent the police of a liberal democracy, of an authoritarian democracy, or simply of a police state? Bio: Fabien Jobard specialises in matters of police in France and Germany. He holds a PhD in political science and is a research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and at the Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions (CESDIP). He also is a visiting professor at Louvain Global College of Law. Publications: Fabien Jobard recently published “Transformation of State’s Use of Force in Europe”, in Desmond King, Patrick Le Galès (ed.), Reconfiguring European States in Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2017) and, with Daniel Schönpflug, Politische Gewalt im urbanen Raum (De Gruyter, 2019). Fabien Jobard is also the co-author, with René Lévy and Sophie Névanen, of a landmark article: “Measuring Appareance-Based Discrimination: An Analysis of Identity Checks in Paris”, in Population-E (2012) and, earlier with Dave Waddington and Mike King, of the book Rioting in the UK and France (Willan, 2009). If you want to spread the word for this session: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/seminar-series-french-politics-a-neighbours-history-of-the-present-invites-fabien-jobard The EventBrite link for all the sessions (booking is necessary): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-series-french-politics-a-neighbours-history-of-the-present-tickets-63993628666 This series is organised with the support of the French Embassy in the UK and the Political Studies Association. Attached is the full programme for 2019/2020. If you need any information, please contact me here [log in to unmask] Thank you for your attention.Best regards, Emmanuel Jouai-- PhD Student / Teaching Assistant / Visiting LecturerCentre for the Study of DemocracySchool of Social Sciences (CLAS)University of Westminster 32-38 Wells StreetW1T 3UW LondonInstitutional website / @e_jouai - Latest publication: 'Who is the subject of violence?', in Radical Philosophy. - Register for the seminar series "French Politics: A Neighbour's 'History of the Present'" ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ECPR-THEORY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ECPR-THEORY&A=1