The staging and reception of Samuel Beckett’s theatre in France, Germany and the Czech Republic after the fall of the Berlin Wall

Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact : alice.clabaut.billier@gmail.com

My dissertation focuses on “the staging and reception of Samuel Beckett’s theatre in France, Germany and the Czech Republic after the fall of the Berlin Wall”. I am doing a joint thesis between Charles University and Sorbonne University (cotutelle contract).

My research aims to establish an aesthetic-political inventory of the staging and reception of Samuel Beckett’s plays in France, in Germany and in the Czech Republic since the playwright’s death. Beckett passed away in December 1989, one month after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The international comparison questions the consequences of the Cold War on the production and reception of Beckett’s plays. The three countries I am interested in faced the experience of the Iron Curtain very differently. Whilst Beckett’s work has always been highly praised in France, it was strictly censored in East Germany. While the Czechs used Waiting for Godot as a political argument during the revolution against the USSR, the French and West Germans regarded Beckett’s theatre as a revolutionary, yet philosophically and literarily, work.

Considering these differences, I discuss the extent to which aesthetic choices provide a critical prism through which various aspects of Beckett’s poetics can be emphasised. On the one hand, I point out how Beckett’s theatre highlights, in many ways, not only European traumas, left over from the Second World War and the Cold War, but also contemporary traumas. On the other hand, I observe the changing aesthetic choices in the productions, from the traditional performances inherited from Roger Blin to the most original ones, testifying to the inexhaustible importance of Beckett’s theatre.

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Formation

2017-2019: Master, Research speciality, Political Philosophy and Ethics, Sorbonne University Paris, with Honours
Thesis under the supervision of Hélène L’Heuillet: Les hommes face aux féminismes. De l’engagement masculin au masculinisme.

2016-2018: Master, Research speciality,  French and Comparative Literature, Sorbonne University Paris, Charles University Prague (Erasmus), with High Honours
Thesis under the supervision of Stéphane Desvignes: Réfléchir le temps, réfléchir au temps, avec Le roi se meurt d’Eugène Ionesco.

2012-2015: Preparatory class BL, Lycée Faidherbe Lille
Speciality: English, option: German

Teaching experience

2021-2022: Temporary lecturer for Bachelor’s students at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris (English seminar for non-specialists – “Duos et couples dans le théâtre anglophone”)

2018-2019: French language assistant, Humboldt Gymnasium, Zwickau, Germany

Communications

• “Beckett avant Beckett. Première réception des œuvres de Beckett en RDA.”, Doctoral seminar, PRITEPS Laboratory, Sorbonne University,  June 18, 2021
• “Krapp’s Last Tape :  Écouter et redécouvrir l’anglais dans toute son étrangeté”  –“Noise” Seminar, OVALE, Sorbonne University Paris, May 11, 2021
• “To archive the present or the very first Beckett production in East-Germany” – Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Conference, Memory Studies, 4EU+ research program, University of Warsaw, April 14, 2021
• “La littérature masculiniste aujourd’hui : faire parler plutôt que faire penser” – 6th Gender Masters Transdisciplinary Seminar, Sorbonne University Paris, March 14, 2018 

Articles

• “Beckett & Brecht au Palace de la République. Dialogue politique, polyphonie esthétique”, Beckett aujourd’hui, Beckett Today (in process, publication 2022)
• “To archive the present or the very first Beckett production in East-Germany” – European Pluralities Series, Memory Studies, 4EU+ research program, University of Warsaw (in process, publication 2022)

Events

• September 6 – 10, 2021: 4EU+ Summer School “Borderlands of Memory: Nationalism, Religion and Violence in Europe” organised at Charles University by the 4EU+ Alliance “Plurality of Memories in Europe in a Global Perspective” Consortium (series of lectures, workshops, and seminars from various disciplines).

Research Area 1 & 3: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies & Objects, Traces, Mapping

Contact: alessandro.testa@fsv.cuni.cz

Dr. Alessandro Testa is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague, where since 2020 he has also led the ERC CZ “ReEnchEu” research project. Prior to this, he was Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Fellow and Teacher at the University of Vienna (2015–2019).
Trained in history, ethnology, and religious studies at the Universities of Florence, Rome, Paris, and Messina, he received his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2013. He has conducted long-term, intensive ethnographic fieldworks in Italy (2010-2012), Czech Republic (2013–2014; 2020-ongoing), and Catalonia (Spain) (2016–2020). In the past decade he has been affiliated for long terms with the Universities of Tallinn, Pardubice, Vienna, and Prague, and has also been a visiting scholar in Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Iceland. Continue reading Alessandro Testa: Research & CV →

Romanian intellectuals and the debates on democracy in Central Eastern Europe in transnational perspective

Research Area 1, “Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices”.

Anemona Constantin is a political sociologist by training. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Paris Nanterre (2019), where she taught seminars in political science and social history of ideas for MA and BA students (2006-2011). Her works examine the transformations of the Romanian intellectual field after 1989, the public debates around the political past that sparked in Eastern Europe during the post-socialist period, and the (re)-writing of national histories after the fall of the Berlin Wall in Romania, Bulgaria, and the Republic of Moldova.

The project conducted at CEFRES examines in a transnational perspective the contributions of Romanian intellectuals to the political debates on democracy and Europe after the demise of state socialism. The project brings four innovations to the literature on intellectuals in CEE: 1) It maps the diversity of Romanian intellectual networks and discourses on democracy and provides a prosopography of these actors with their transnational collaborations; 2) It historicizes the diverse (national and transnational) roots of these discourses and place them in the long history of the Cold War period; 3) It investigates the direct and indirect impact of Romanian intellectuals on the ideology and activity of national political parties; 4) It places the Romanian case study in wider CEE trends in order to evaluate the potential peculiarity of Romanian intellectuals and ideas within the regional phenomenon.

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Education

2019: PhD in Political Science, University of Paris Nanterre, Thesis: “Regime change and the genesis of a new official history in Romania. Battles over the fascist and the communist past after 1989”

2006: Postgraduate Diploma (DEA) in Comparative Political Sociology, University of Paris Nanterre, Dissertation: “The social conditions of the rallying to fascism of Romanian intellectuals during the 1930s”

2005: MA in Political Science, University of Paris Nanterre

Fellowships & Participation in Collective Research Projects

December 2020 – November 2021: Fellowship at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest, Division: Social Sciences, Research Project: “The Internationalization of Romanian Anticommunism. Transnational Biographies and the Circulation of Knowledge”

May 2018 – Avril 2020 : Team member at University of Bucharest, Department of Political Science, Center for the Study Of  Equal Opportunity Policies, Research Project Transitional Justice and Memory in Romania in Global Perspective, https://transnationalmemory.wordpress.com/our-project/. Research project: „Teaching the history of communism in Bulgaria, Romania and Republic of Moldova”

2016 – 2018 : Team member at University of Paris Nanterre, Department of Law and Political Science, French-British Research project LABEX “Les passés dans le présent” (France) and Arts and Humanities Research Council “Care for the Future” (UK) –Research Project The Criminalization of Dictatorial Pasts in Europe and Latin America in Global Perspective, https://criminalizationofdictatorialpasts.wordpress.com/about/, Research project: „Sighet Memorial of the victims of communism and the reception of Black Book of Communism in Romania”

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “L’enseignement de l’histoire du communisme à l’Est : Bulgarie, Roumanie, République de Moldavie“, Passés Futurs, no 9, July 2021, https://www.politika.io/index.php/fr/article/lenseignement-lhistoire-du-communisme-a-lest
• (co-authored with Valentin Behr, Muriel Blaive, Laure Neumayer, Maté Zombory), “Anti-Communist Consensus: The Black Book of Communism in a Pan-European Perspective”, Special Issue „Transnational Activism and the Globalization of Anti-Communism after 1989”, Revue d’Études Comparatives Est-Ouest, vol. 51, no 2-3, 2020, https://www.cairn.info/revue-revue-d-etudes-comparatives-est-ouest-2020-2-page-55.htm.
• “Le Mémorial de Sighet entre ‘devoir de mémoire’ et contraintes de l’histoire. Analyse sociologique d’une réussite improbable”, Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review, 3, 2018, https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/60116.

Book chapters

• “L’influence des facteurs transnationaux sur l’enseignement de l’histoire du communisme en Roumanie“ in Marie Vergnon, Renaud d’Enfert, Frédéric Molle (eds.), Circulations en éducation. Passages, transferts, trajectoires, Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2021 (forthcoming)
• “Sortir du communisme : les dé-conversions politiques d’un ‘fils du peuple roumain’“ in Jean-Philippe Heurtin, Patrick Michel, (eds.), La conversion et ses convertis, Paris, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Politika.io, 2021
• “Roumanie : des minériades à l’intégration européenne“ in Dominique Andolfatto and Sylvie Contrepois, Syndicats et dialogue social : les modèles occidentaux à l’épreuve, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2016
• “L’échec d’une « seconde Révolution » Place de l’Université (1990)“ in Jérôme Heurtaux, Cédric Pellen (eds.), 1989 à l’est de l’Europe. Une mémoire controversée, La Tour d’Aigues, Éditions de l’Aube, 2009

Encyclopedia and Handbook Entries

• “L’écriture de récits communs : les commissions d’historiens”, “L’Institut d’Investigation des Crimes du Communisme en Roumanie”, “La Commission Tismăneanu en Roumanie (2006)“ in Sophie Baby, Laure Neumayer, Fréderic Zalewski (eds.), Condamner le passé ? Mémoires des passés autoritaires en Europe et en Amérique latine (ebook), Nanterre, Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2019

Enlightenment in Moravia and French Culture (1750–1820): continuity or discontinuity?

Research Area 1 – Displacements, « Dépaysements » and Discrepancies. People, Knowlege and Practicies

The aim of my project is to examine the various manifestations of French culture in Moravia from the turn of the Baroque, during the age of Enlightenment and until Romanticism.

The project will identify general trends in the reception of French culture in Moravia, the impact of the cultural and philosophical impulses of the Enlightenment and their development over time.

I am thus interested in the reception of French culture (through the importation of books) but also in the use of French in Moravian society, through the production of books (published or not) and private communication (correspondence). I also explore the relatively few, but not insignificant, networks of contacts between Moravia and the French milieu and thus examine the status of French as a means of communication for the elites of the time. The essential theme of the project is the book culture of this period and therefore I examine the noble libraries and their French holdings. Particular emphasis will be placed on the period after 1789, on revolutionary and counter-revolutionary literature and its distribution.

This theme is part of a larger research framework of the Department of Early Printed Materials of the Moravian Library in Brno lead in collaboration with other institutions, among which is CEFRES.

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Positions

Since 2020: researcher at the Moravian Regional Library, Brno, Department of Old Prints

Since 2016: Teaching assistant at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno (seminar “Narration au XIXe siècle entre la fiction et l’histoire, Balzac et la Comédie humaine”)

Education

2021 – PhD in Lettres modernes, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno/Université Paris-Est (cotutelle, title of the thesis: La fonction esthétique et l’image de l’histoire – les guerres de Vendée et de Bretagne dans la littérature du XIXe siècle)

2017 – Master in French language and history instruction, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno

2016 – Master in French Philology and History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno/Université Paris-Est

2013 – Bachelor in French Philology and History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno

Publications

• „Un roman historique minoritaire. La Bataille de Kerguidu de Lan Inisan“, in: Carmen González Menéndez, Daniel Santana Jügler and Daniel Hofferer (eds.): Literature in a globalized context. : 11th International Colloquium in Romance and Comparative Literature (Universities of Brno, Halle and Szeged). Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Promotionsstudiengang an der Internationalen Graduiertenakademie, 2020, p. 75-86.
• „La guerre de Vendée comme un « mémoricide » ? Point de vue littéraire sur un différend historique.“ Svět literatury : časopis pro novodobé literatury. Univerzita Karlova, 2020, XXX, 62, p. 80-91.
• „Temný stín brněnského vězení. Obraz Špilberku ve francouzské literatuře 19. století.“ Sborník muzea Brněnska, 2019, p. 22-39.
• „Chouan dans la littérature du XIXe siècle comme une figure de l’ancien monde.“ In: Homme nouveau, homme ancien : autour des figures émergentes et disparaissantes de l’humain. Szeged: Jate Press, 2019.
• Roman au XIXe siècle et (re)construction de l’Histoire : Les Bleus et les Blancs d’Etienne Arago. Acta Romanica Quinqueecclesiensis, Pécs, 2019, VI, p. 213-239.
• “Plus quam civilia bella” (Victor Hugo): Animalité et cruauté dans le roman de l’Ouest. Ostium: časopis pre humanitné vedy, Bratislava: Ostium, 2018, roč. 2018, n. 2, p. 110-125.
• Tableau de la France de Jules Michelet: espace géographique, historique ou poétique? Echo des études romanes, Gallica o.s., 2018, XIV, 1-2, p. 59-69.

Contributions to conferences and seminars

• „L’histoire manque aux Chouans (Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly): l’enjeu historique des Romans de l’Ouest“, Conference „Vers un dépassement de la dialectique de l’histoire et de la fiction“, université Lille 3, 9-11 October 2017
• „Fiction et histoire à l’époque romantique : le roman de la Vendée au XIXe siècle“, XXVIIth Conference AFUE „La recherche en études françaises : un éventail des possibilités“, Universidad de Sevilla, 9-11 May 2018
• « Le Roman de l’Ouest sous la Restauration : entre la littérature, l’histoire et la philosophie contre-révolutionnaire », seminar; Laboratoire „Lettres – idées – sociétés », Université Paris-Est, 11 March 2019
• « Œuvre littéraire comme une structure dynamique. Pour une analyse fonctionnelle de la fiction historique », Workshop “Roman francophone et Histoire. Renouvellement des formes d’écriture littéraire de l’événement historique”, EA 1337 (Strasbourg) et EA 3945 (Metz), 23 March 2019
• “Sous la hache, un roman vendéen exemplaire ?” Workshop on French19th-century literature, conference « Elemir Bourges », université Paris-Sorbonne, 19 April 2019
• „Le roman de l’Ouest républicain au XIXe siècle : une contre-mémoire de la Guerre de Vendée ?“, Conference « Mémoire des guerres civiles », Cholet, (coorganisé par les universités de Nantes et d‘Angers), 11-12 June 2021
  

  Scientific Awards

  • 2016 – Award of the Dean, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, for the best MA thesis : „Jules Michelet : narration historique ou narration littéraire ?“.
  • 2019 – Prix Gallica for the best MA thesis : „Dimension médiévale des recueils ésopiques : les Fables de Marie de France“.
  • 2021 – Award of the Rector, Masaryk University, Brno, for the best PhD thesis.

A Socio-Historical Reflection on Everyday Life and Everyday Politics in Post-War Communist Europe (1945–1991)
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Investigation of the various modalities of politicization in contemporary Belarus, in a context of protest and mass repression

Research area 2 – Norms and Transgression

Contact: ronan.hervouet(@)cefres.cz

Ronan Hervouet is a Professor of sociology at the University of Bordeaux and a member of the Centre Émile Durkheim (UMR 5116), of which he was Deputy Director from 2016 to 2019. Holding an “Agrégation” in economics and social sciences (1998), and a PhD in sociology from the University of Bordeaux (2004), he defended his HDR (higher doctorate with accreditation to supervise research) in social sciences at ENS-Paris Saclay in 2018. In Belarus, he taught at the Franco-Belarusian Faculty of Political Science and Administrative Studies of the European Humanities University in Minsk (1999-2001), and was co-director of the Franco-Belarusian Centre for Political Science and European Studies (from 2009 to 2012). In Bordeaux, he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bordeaux from 2005 to 2020. He also carried out teaching assignments at the French University College in St Petersburg (2018) and Moscow (2019).

His research focuses on the everyday life of authoritarian regimes. Adopting an ethnographic approach, he has published two surveys on contemporary Belarus: Datcha blues. Existences ordinaires et dictature en Biélorussie (Belin, 2009), and Le goût des tyrans. Une ethnographie politique du quotidien en Biélorussie (Le Bord de l’eau, 2020) – translated into English as A Taste for Oppression. A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus (Berghahn Books, 2021).

At CEFRES, his research will focus on two aspects: a socio-historical reflection on everyday life and everyday politics in post-war communist Europe (1945-1991), and an investigation of the various modalities of politicization in contemporary Belarus, in a context of protest and mass repression.

His project is consistent with the scientific context of CEFRES, and in particular with two of the three priority focuses of the laboratory. It is linked to the questions raised within Focus 2 entitled “Norms and transgressions”. On the one hand, his work on everyday politics in communist Europe, on the displacement and modes of distancing and disengagement from the normative and normalizing ambitions of the state, resonates with the reflections carried out in this focus. On the other hand, the discussions of the reasons for the protests in Belarus call into question the performative ambition of the norms promoted by Lukashenko’s regime. The project is also linked to CEFRES Focus 3: “Objects, traces, maps: spaces of everyday life”. Everyday politics in communist Europe reveal forms of oblique attention to the political discourses disseminated on a large scale throughout the territory. These forms of political avoidance are sometimes expressed in what might be called third places, where the expression of a “quant-à-soi” (“apartness”) is more easily found: kitchens in Soviet flats, places for discreet, sometimes transgressive and oppositional discussions; gardens, vegetable gardens and dachas, which are seen by city dwellers as appropriate places for the expression of subjectivities and a sense of dignity; forests, rivers and mountains where people camp, sing, study, interact and debate, far from urban centers where people are more regularly and routinely exposed to the normalizing and disciplinary gaze of power, etc. These are examples of a specific geography of such forms of political avoidance, which could be discussed in this focus. The spatial dimension of the protests in Belarus (symbolic reversals of spaces that have become political: building courtyards, balconies; politicization of urban spaces: major roads, public squares), could also be informed by the discussions carried out within this focus

Monographs

• A Taste for Oppression. A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus, Oxford et New York, Berghahn Books (« Anthropology of Europe ») 2021 .
• Le goût des tyrans. Une ethnographie politique du quotidien en Biélorussie, Lormont, Le Bord de l’eau (« Documents ») 2020.
• Charles-Henry Cuin, François Gresle et Ronan Hervouet, Histoire de la sociologie. De 1789 à nos jours, Paris, La Découverte (« Grands Repères / Manuels »), quatrième édition entièrement refondue et mise à jour, 2017.
• Datcha blues. Existences ordinaires et dictature en Biélorussie, Paris, Belin (« Europes centrales »), 2009. [1ère édition : 2007, Montreuil, Aux lieux d’être (« Mondes contemporains »)].

Edited Monographs

• Charles-Henry Cuin et Ronan Hervouet (dir), Durkheim aujourd’hui, Paris, PUF (« Le lien social »), 2018.
• Elisabeth Gessat-Anstett, Caroline Dufy et Ronan Hervouet (dir.), Quelles hiérarchies sociales en Europe ?, Paris, Pétra (« Europes : terrains et sociétés »), 2009.

Edited Special Issues of Scientific Journals

• Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, « Mondes ruraux et marchés dans l’Europe post-communiste » (dossier – numéro double – coordonné par Caroline Dufy et Ronan Hervouet), vol. 48, n° 1-2, 2017.
• Agora. Débats / jeunesses, « Jeunes générations en Europe : regards croisés Est-Ouest » (dossier coordonné par Pierre-Marie Chauvin, Caroline Dufy, Elisabeth Gessat-Anstett et Ronan Hervouet), n° 45, 2007.

Peer-reviewed articles

• « The Moral Economy of the Kolkhoz Worker, Or Why the Protest Movement in Belarus Does Not Seem to Concern the Collectivized Countryside», Slavic Review, vol. 80, n° 1, 2021, pp. 61-68.
• « A Political Ethnography of Rural Communities under an Authoritarian Regime. The Case of Belarus », Bulletin de méthodologie sociologique / Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, vol. 141, 2019, pp. 85-112.
• « Socialisme de marché et gouvernement des campagnes en Biélorussie », Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, vol. 48, n°1-2, 2017, pp. 85-110 (avec Alexandre Kurilo et Ioulia Shukan).
• « Des épouses dominées ? Mariages transnationaux, inégalités dans le couple et parcours de vie en France de femmes russes, biélorusses et ukrainiennes », Recherches familiales, n° 14, 2017, pp. 95-106 (avec Claire Schiff).
• « The Heritage of Soviet Paternalism in the Belarusian Countryside : The Moralization and Folklorization of the Social World », Mir Rossii [The Universe of Russia. Journal for Sociology and Ethnology – Moscou], vol. 25, n° 4, 2016, pp. 30-51 (avec Alexandre Kurilo).
• « Usages du passé et ordre social en Biélorussie. L’histoire d’un prêtre charismatique aux prises avec son passé criminel », Ethnologie française, vol. 44, n° 3, 2014, pp. 409-420.
• « Le ‘socialisme de marché’ dans la Biélorussie de Loukachenko : égalitarisme, néopatrimonialisme et dépendance extérieure », Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, vol. 20, n° 3, 2013, pp. 97-113.
• « Travailler ‘bénévolement’ pour la collectivité : les subbotniki en Biélorussie postsoviétique », Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire, n° 78, 2010, pp. 87-104 (avec Alexandre Kurilo).
• « Datchas et mémoires familiales en Biélorussie », Ethnologie française, vol. 37, n° 3, 2007, pp. 533-540.
• « L’économie du potager en Biélorussie et en Russie », Études rurales, n° 177, 2006, pp. 25-42.

Articles

• « Portraits de Biélorusses en temps de révolution », Carnets de Terrain. Le blog de la revue Terrain, 5 août 2021 : https://blogterrain.hypotheses.org/17300
• « Les kolkhozes de Loukachenko : un regard ‘terre à terre’ sur la Biélorussie », AOC media – Analyse Opinion Critique, 8 septembre 2020 : https://aoc.media/analyse/2020/09/07/les-kolkhozes-de-loukachenko-un-regard-terre-a-terre-sur-la-bielorussie/
• « La tradition soviétique des subbotniki dans la Biélorussie de Loukachenko », La Revue russe, n° 41, 2013, pp. 25-36.
• « Authoritarianism from Below. Lessons from Ethnographic Studies in Belarus, The Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 31, n° 2, 2013, pp. 19-29: http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/4242
• « Dachas and vegetable gardens in Belarus. Economic and subjective stakes of an ‘ordinary passion’ », The Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 21, n° 1, pp. 159-168: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/374

Chapters in collective monographs

• « La postérité de l’œuvre de Durkheim (1858-1917) cent ans après», in Cuin Charles-Henry et Hervouet Ronan (dir.), Durkheim aujourd’hui, Paris, PUF (« Le lien social »), 2018, pp. 1-20 (avec Charles-Henry Cuin).
• « The Metamorphoses of the Dacha : Some Processual Thinking », in Dépelteau François et Savoia Landini Tatiana (dir.), Norbert Elias and Empirical Research, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 179-196 (avec François Dépelteau).
• « Les datchas en Biélorussie et en Russie dans les années 1970 et 1980: accès, formes et usages différenciés », in Nadège Ragaru et Antonela Capelle-Pogacean (dir.), Vie quotidienne et pouvoir sous le communisme. Consommer à l’Est, Paris, Karthala (« Relations internationales »), 2010, pp. 427-456.
• « Biélorussie. Mémoires et ruptures de vie de citoyens soviétiques », in Jérôme Heurtaux et Cédric Pellen (dir.), 1989 à l’Est de l’Europe. Une mémoire controversée, La Tour d’Aigues, Editions de l’Aube (« Monde en cours »), 2009, pp. 203-227.
• « ‘Être à la datcha’. Éléments d’analyse issus d’une recherche exploratoire », in François Dépelteau et Aurélie Lacassagne (dir.), Le Bélarus : l’état de l’exception, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2003, pp. 257-317.

Book reviews

• Gouverner la vie privée. L’encadrement inégalitaire des séparations conjugales en France et au Québec d’Émilie Biland (ENS Éditions, 2019), Revue française de sociologie, volume 61, n° 3, 2020, pp. 483-486.
• Sociology in Russia. A Brief History de Larissa Titarenko et Elena Zdravomyslova (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Revue française de science politique, volume 69, n° 1, 2019, pp. 184-186.
• Une paradoxale oppression. Le pouvoir et les associations en Russie de Françoise Daucé (CNRS éditions, 2013), Le Mouvement Social, n° 260, 2017, pp. 157-160.
• On a mangé nos moutons. Le Kirghizstan, du berger au biznesman de Boris Pétric (Belin / Editions de la MSH, 2013), Revue française de science politique, volume 63, n° 6, pp. 1228-1229.
• « La Biélorussie, dernière dictature d’Europe » [lecture critique de : Brian BENETT, The Last Dictatorship in Europe. Belarus under Lukashenko, Londres, Hurst & Company, 2011 ; Valéri KARBALEVITCH, Le satrape de Biélorussie. Alexandre Loukachenko, dernier tyran d’Europe, Paris, François Bourin Editeur (« Les moutons noirs »), 2012 ; Andrew WILSON, Belarus. The Last European Dictatorship, New Haven et Londres, Yale University Press, 2011], Revue française de science politique, volume 63, n° 3-4, 2013, pp. 684-687.
• Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow d’Olga Shevchenko (Indiana University Press, 2009), Europe-Asia Studies, volume 65, n° 4, 2013, pp. 774-776.
• Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside de Melissa L. Caldwell (University of California Press, 2011), Cahiers du Monde russe, volume 51, n°4, octobre-décembre 2010, p. 740-743.
• Le troc dans le marché. Pour une sociologie des échanges dans la Russie post-soviétique de Caroline Dufy (L’Harmattan 2008), Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire, septembre 2009, n° 76, pp. 164-167.
• L’étreinte soviétique de Nicolas Hayoz (Droz, 1997), Revue Française de Sociologie, janvier-mars, volume 41, n° 1, 2000, pp. 181-183.