Dans ce blog, Marc Le Pape s'intéresse au vocabulaire couramment utilisé à MSF-OCP pour exprimer des points de vue ou des critiques, et aux connotations attachées à celui-ci. Il dresse ainsi une liste de termes positifs, péjoratifs et interprétatifs dont il analyse et illustre les usages.

In France, from March onwards, many sociologists regularly appear in the media. Based on this observation, Marc Le Pape analysed 37 articles written during the containment period, dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

This study, conducted among the men of Homa Bay in Nyanza Province, Kenya, assesses the representations of HIV and impact on care seeking. It reveals that simply setting up a testing or care campaign does not necessarily mean that the entire population will participate; the message has to be tailored to the target population and fine-tuned even within that population.

What turns ordinary men into killers? The CRASH team invited you to a conference – debate with the sociologist and historian, Nicolas Mariot. This meeting, prepared with Claudine Vidal, was moderated by Elba Rahmouni.

How can anyone write about Rwanda without being called a denialist? Marc Le Pape tries to craft an answer in this article, published on the website The Conversation on 19 October 2017.  

Our survey bears something of a resemblance to a study carried out by Vanja Kovacic in Homa Bay, Kenya, in which she investigated patients’ disease coping mechanisms and their “dependence on medical institutions”.

Sauf erreur de notre part, Pierre Bourdieu n'a pas conduit d'enquête sur les activités et les organisations humanitaires. Cependant il emploie le terme humanitaire comme adjectif dans son cours Sur l'État du 5 décembre 1991.

The reasons why we are accepted, tolerated or sometimes rejected in the contexts where we work are often obscure. Caroline Abu-Sada and her team of sociology student shed some light on these issues.

François Enten nous présente sa thèse en socio-anthropologie qu'il conduit actuellement sur les mécanismes d'attribution de l'aide alimentaire en Ethiopie.