Représentations, mobilisations
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Logiques et ressorts de l'iconographie anti-biométrique en France
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In France, iconographic representations have played an important role not only to legitimise state implementation of identification mechanisms, but also as a means to denounce these governmental initiatives. Drawing from past experiences, this article shows that images have become key in the repertoire of actions used by movements contesting biomet...
Résistance, existence, autorité
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De la pratique militante à la fabrication du patrimoine
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Using ethnographic data gathered from a long-lasting field study, this article questions the relationship between a specific artistic practice and the political and analysis how the wall paintings in Orgosolo in Sardinia, which used to be a political practice, have now become part of a cultural heritage. Today, these Sardinian murals comply with sp...
Sociologie d'une conversation silencieuse
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Based on a field study undertaken in 2010 and 2011, this article analyses the nationalistic iconographical traces that have colonised public spaces in Corsica. It explores the multiple use of this scenographic enterprise – strategic, cognitive, and/or about self-indentification – by which a banal nationalism expresses itself. This contribution is a...
Récits et cadrages politiques en Euskadi : lectures de l'iconographie abertzale
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Based on a field study in the Northern part of the Basque Country, this article analyses iconographic data gathered in three French provinces. These findings are supplemented by a field study carried out by a student in the South part of the Basque Country. The article starts by mapping out the various iconographic data produced by the movements ab...
Quand la révolution fait le mur : l'art mural vénézuélien entre imagination contestataire et contestation imaginaire
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With an extra-ordinary proliferation throughout the whole of Venezuela’s poor barrio’s and metropolitan centers’ public walls ever since the controversial institution of a “revolutionnary” Bolivarian government (at the start of the century), venezuelan popular iconography is altogether the subject of “participatory” public policies and transgressiv...
L'iconographie révolutionnaire en mutation
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The revolutionary iconography has always oscillated between graphic continuities and symbolic innovations. This article investigates two examples. First, it examines the communist iconography in the 20th century (f.i. hammer and sickle, red star and globe). It then analyses four steps of the extreme-left iconography from the 1960s to present.
Pour une iconographie de la contestation
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From May 68 posters to republican murals in Belfast, from Paul Pieter Piech’s anti-apartheid pictures to SOS Racisme badge, iconography seems to be strongly related to social protest. Could we imagine a political demonstration without any graphic manifesto? Although omnipresent, protest pictures did not get many attention from social scientists unt...
La grammaire iconographique de la révolte en Syrie : Usages, techniques et supports
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This article explores the uses, the techniques and the repertories of the iconography produced by the protagonists of the Syrian Rebellion, focusing on the ways they mobilize digital technologies of diffusion and creation. The aim is to grasp the interplays between the concrete spaces of protests and the virtual and disseminated space of the Intern...
