Cecile Jouhanneau
I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at University Paul Valery Montpellier. My research deals with war memories, international peacebuilding and the political sociology of the war's aftermath in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
I hold a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris (2013). I received an MA in International Affairs (2005) and an MRes in Political Sociology (2006) also from Sciences Po Paris.
I was previously a visiting student at the University of Chicago (Oct. 2008-June 2009) and a visiting fellow at New York University (Nov. 2010-Feb. 2011).
Before joining University Paul Valéry Montpellier, I taught at Sciences Po Paris, University of Reims, University Paris-VIII, University Paris-I Sorbonne and University of Tours.
I participated in the French National Research Agency's contract "International Peace Professionals. Sociology and History of a Transnational Engineering" (ISP – University Paris Ouest, 2010-2014) and in the "Memory and Memorialization : Representing Trauma and War" Research Program (NYU and CNRS, 2010-2011). I have been a substitute member of the Management Committee of COST Action "In search for a transcultural memory in Europe" (2012-2016).
I speak French, English, Spanish and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian.
I hold a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris (2013). I received an MA in International Affairs (2005) and an MRes in Political Sociology (2006) also from Sciences Po Paris.
I was previously a visiting student at the University of Chicago (Oct. 2008-June 2009) and a visiting fellow at New York University (Nov. 2010-Feb. 2011).
Before joining University Paul Valéry Montpellier, I taught at Sciences Po Paris, University of Reims, University Paris-VIII, University Paris-I Sorbonne and University of Tours.
I participated in the French National Research Agency's contract "International Peace Professionals. Sociology and History of a Transnational Engineering" (ISP – University Paris Ouest, 2010-2014) and in the "Memory and Memorialization : Representing Trauma and War" Research Program (NYU and CNRS, 2010-2011). I have been a substitute member of the Management Committee of COST Action "In search for a transcultural memory in Europe" (2012-2016).
I speak French, English, Spanish and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian.
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Does war transform policy-making, and if so, how? By scrutinizing an oft-neglected public policy in Bosnia – public employment services – this article highlights the relative continuities of employment policies before, during and after the 1992-1995 war. A multi-level investigation conducted with international financial institutions as well as entity-level, cantonal and municipal actors reveals that the relations between peacebuilders and their Bosnian interlocutors feature mutual dependence and the externalisation of bureaucratic labour. Like in socialist Yugoslavia, local ruling parties discreetly weigh on policy-making, and this despite the emergence today of some internationalised governance modalities.
were sent as international police in UN and NATO missions in Bosnia
and Kosovo. Drawing on qualitative material, it argues that their
encounters on the ground largely shaped their practices. Rather
than melting into the internationalised peacebuilding milieu,
gendarmes endeavoured to serve and survey, that is, to establish
relationships with civilian populations as a means to collect
security-related intelligence for their national government. The
sociology of peacebuilding encounters on the ground thus unveils
Peaceland’s social divides and invites to take into account the
historicity of the peacebuilders’ societies.
By revisiting a study on Bosnian war camp detainees conducted between 2007 and 2012, this article builds a case for the comparative ethnography of the emotions of both the ethnographer and their interlocutors. It argues that this approach can improve understandings of the ordinary relations with politics in a society whose members are frequently reduced to stereotypes of either ultra-nationalism or absolute political indifference. Drawing on the observation of emotions expressed within an association of war victims and of the ethnographer’s emotional labor, this article unveils practices of self-exposure or discretion that reveal a solid understanding of politics, undermining this dichotomy. A comparative ethnography of emotions can thus reveal the often-elusive presence of party politics in everyday life.
In order to elucidate the activities of one of the most vocal Bosnian war victims’ organizations, this article eschews the dominant debate over the contribution of “civil society” to democratization, and instead examines the complex links between the state, political parties, and collective organizations. It first points to the role that the protests of the Serb Union for Camp Detainees play in intra-Serb party politics, and it then signals the place of this organization in the provision of public resources. This article thus unravels the partisan and neocorporatist logics of Bosnian war victims’ mobilizations, the crucial part they play in the consolidation of ethnocracy in postsocialist Bosnia, and the contribution of international peacebuilding intervention to such a form of government.
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Does war transform policy-making, and if so, how? By scrutinizing an oft-neglected public policy in Bosnia – public employment services – this article highlights the relative continuities of employment policies before, during and after the 1992-1995 war. A multi-level investigation conducted with international financial institutions as well as entity-level, cantonal and municipal actors reveals that the relations between peacebuilders and their Bosnian interlocutors feature mutual dependence and the externalisation of bureaucratic labour. Like in socialist Yugoslavia, local ruling parties discreetly weigh on policy-making, and this despite the emergence today of some internationalised governance modalities.
were sent as international police in UN and NATO missions in Bosnia
and Kosovo. Drawing on qualitative material, it argues that their
encounters on the ground largely shaped their practices. Rather
than melting into the internationalised peacebuilding milieu,
gendarmes endeavoured to serve and survey, that is, to establish
relationships with civilian populations as a means to collect
security-related intelligence for their national government. The
sociology of peacebuilding encounters on the ground thus unveils
Peaceland’s social divides and invites to take into account the
historicity of the peacebuilders’ societies.
By revisiting a study on Bosnian war camp detainees conducted between 2007 and 2012, this article builds a case for the comparative ethnography of the emotions of both the ethnographer and their interlocutors. It argues that this approach can improve understandings of the ordinary relations with politics in a society whose members are frequently reduced to stereotypes of either ultra-nationalism or absolute political indifference. Drawing on the observation of emotions expressed within an association of war victims and of the ethnographer’s emotional labor, this article unveils practices of self-exposure or discretion that reveal a solid understanding of politics, undermining this dichotomy. A comparative ethnography of emotions can thus reveal the often-elusive presence of party politics in everyday life.
In order to elucidate the activities of one of the most vocal Bosnian war victims’ organizations, this article eschews the dominant debate over the contribution of “civil society” to democratization, and instead examines the complex links between the state, political parties, and collective organizations. It first points to the role that the protests of the Serb Union for Camp Detainees play in intra-Serb party politics, and it then signals the place of this organization in the provision of public resources. This article thus unravels the partisan and neocorporatist logics of Bosnian war victims’ mobilizations, the crucial part they play in the consolidation of ethnocracy in postsocialist Bosnia, and the contribution of international peacebuilding intervention to such a form of government.