I was always fond of @thesociologicalreview.org, which is, by the way, the oldest sociology journal in the UK. I am extremely happy and honoured to join today their editorial board.

What it's like to "be a man" doing platform food deliveries when you're caught between entrepreneurial discourses and precarious work? My latest (open access) publication, for the Journal of Sociology. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HDW2T...

The first issue of French bicycling magazine Le Vélocipède Illustré featured an illustration of “Lady Progress” riding an early “boneshaker” bicycle. (Post based on work by @cosminpopan.bsky.social daily.jstor.org/bicycling-in...

وقّعوا على البيان "كان ياما كان: احترام حقوق المهاجرين في المغرب؟" مع اقتراب بطولة كأس الأمم الأفريقية، تدعو منظمات المجتمع المدني والمدافعون عن حقوق الإنسان الدولة المغربية إلى الاحترام الكامل للحقوق الأساسية للمهاجرين. #can2025 #afcon2025 #canmaroc2025 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

La répression déployée aujourd'hui nationalement est inadmissible, disproportionnée et démentielle, MAIS par contre on cessera pas d'attraper la veste des blancs qui expliquent que "c'est du jamais vu", alors que c'est le traitement réservé aux quartiers depuis des piges mais c'était pas votre dos.

End of residence in Grenoble: public projection of my work in progress film, Barça ou Barzakh (barcaoubarzakh.com). maci.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/fr/actualite...

Finally, the printed copy in my inbox! Thanks a lot @kurtvandaele.bsky.social & @silviarainone.bsky.social for the invitation. Check the edited volume at: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

One month until publication! 📚 Academic hardbacks are expensive, so let your local university library know if you’re interested. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c...

F*** psychopaths

'The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector' Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Deported Migrants

The website 4 the upcoming film "Barça Ou Barzakh" is live! barcaoubarzakh.com It features a selection of evocative stills, short introductions to the main characters, as well as the team behind the project. I'm also launching a crowdfunding campaign to support the production stage. Check and share

Been off here for a while — for good reason: working on a doc film about Senegalese migration, Barça ou Barzakh, coming next year. Follow the journey on Instagram: www.instagram.com/barcaoubarza... — website coming soon.

Empire colonial français, système carcéral israélien avec Assia Zaino, guerre globale contre les peuples avec @mathieurigouste.bsky.social, et impérialismes tout azimuts, ce soir, on fait 1h de radio pour en découdre avec les colonialismes 💥 rencard à 23h sur #RadioCanut (102.2 - radiocanut.org) 📻

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, co-edited with @silviarainone.bsky.social, is now available @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social Thanks to the authors for their insights on app-based food delivery! More info 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the... #GigEconomy #FoodForThought

"The adventure: Violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco" [coming out very soon!] manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177681/

Je parle français avec un petit accent, so please pardon my French! Here's a workshop drawing on my previous research on platform food couriers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfZD...

My latest publication: the book chapter "The changing composition of app-based food delivery couriers and the consequences for collectivism", written with Kristin Jesnes. Thank you, @kurtvandaele.bsky.social and @silviarainone.bsky.social for the invitation! www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

It's been three weeks since I started my fieldwork in Dakar for the project Mobilise (Grenoble Alpes University). I'll be in Senegal for three months researching the future aspirations of local youth.

Près de 70 % des Français n’éprouvent pas de « sentiment de submersion » migratoire, selon une enquête sociale européenne: Selon l’Enquête sociale européenne menée par des universitaires européens en 2023-2024 dans 31 pays, au moins 69 % les Français sont favorables à l’accueil d’étrangers dans…

I'm fortunate enough to be able to ambush my students with a guided visit to my exhibition on platform food couriers, all while discussing platform capitalism and TikTok influencers for their teaching unit Globalisation et Société.

If you work on migration -related issues you should check this call for proposal (English and French) for the issue “The other dead: belonging and claim-making in and beyond Africa” edited by my wonderful colleague Valentina Zagaria. Check it out! journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb...

Wrapping up the 4 week unit block Globalisation et Société for second year undergraduate sociology students at Grenoble University with a lecture on mobilities and auto-mobilities and a workshop on radically redesigning a post-car Grenoble. John Urry's work on the system of automobility, ages well.

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Quitter X ? quitter Meta ? dépendre des fascistes pour s'organiser ? Pourquoi tout le monde kiffe autant Gramsci ? Autant de questions qu'on se pose dans notre dernière émission, "La bataille culturelle des internets" à l'écoute un peu partout : audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/139527/... 💻

Musk is the culmination of a slow-moving corporate coup by the oligarch class that has been decades in the making. But that doesn't change the fact that this marks a new and unspeakably dangerous chapter.

WATCH our 5 December online event celebrating the joint winners of our Journal Article of the Year 2023. Cosmin Popan and Andrés Felipe Castro Torres were joined by Sweta Rajan-Rankin, Marie-Andrée Jacob and Rosie Read of the jury to discuss their research.

Tomorrow, between 13h and 13h45, I organise the workshop “Liberté, égalité, uberisé”, at Bibliothèque universitaire Joseph-Fourier (Auditorium), Grenoble Alpes University. Come and join if you can bibliotheques.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/a...

La réponse cinglante et pertinente du premier ministre du Sénégal Ousmane Sonko à Emmanuel Macron à propos du départ des forces armées françaises. Sous cette présidence, l’abaissement de la France en politique intérieure s’accompagne d’un effondrement en politique extérieure.

It's on

Still touring with my exhibition on platform food couriers. Next stop: Grenoble. Starts tomorrow, at Université Grenoble Alpes. bibliotheques.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/a...

I tried very hard to become famous in Europe, without much success though. Everything will change now that my work has finally been published by an influential Chinese news outlet, The Paper, which has an average of 8,6 M daily readers. www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_f...

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

Subtle Orientalism. Leïla Slimani's "Le pays des autres" (2020) and the more recent "Houris" by Kamel Daoud (Prix Goncourt 2024), set in post-colonial (or thereabouts) Morocco and Algeria respectively, are undoubtedly good books.

“What we have found is that the Israeli government is intentionally killing Palestinians in Gaza by denying them the water that they need to survive,” Lama Fakih, Human Rights Watch Middle East director told a news conference. aje.io/vzt571

Last gig work exhibition of the year, at Maison de la Création et l'Innovation (University Grenoble Alpes). On display this week and early next year as a teaser for the much bigger exhibition I will organise at the Bibliothèque universitaire Droit et Lettres (details to come).

Indeed, considerations like these are one of the key takeaways from my and @nandosigona.bsky.social latest article in International Migration Review (albeit on the U.K. after Brexit) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 2/2

WATCH our 5 December online event celebrating the joint winners of our Journal Article of the Year 2023. Cosmin Popan and Andrés Felipe Castro Torres were joined by jury chair Sweta Rajan-Rankin and Marie-Andrée Jacob & Rosie Read to discuss their award-winning research. buff.ly/3Djzqy4

If you missed my talk about the paper "Games against Gamification" which received the @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Journal Article of the Year Award for 2023, you can always check it here (starts at about 47.40): youtu.be/zqPJbnN8_4M?...

Today I'll discuss the award winning paper I wrote for @sociologicalreview.bsky.social with @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social and David Perez "Cards against gamification: Using a role-playing game to tell alternative futures in the gig economy". thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Monday I'll be at Gustave Eiffel University in Paris to present my work (in French, bah oui) on food couriers and the right to the city. If you're interested, check the space below, a zoom link should be available soon. www.futurs-urbains.fr/groupes-tran...

Join us @sociologicalreview.bsky.social next Thursday to hear more from the authors and our awards panel! www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...

Uber is now in the business of disseminating data work tasks to dispersed workers across the globe, paying them by the task, much like Amazon Mechanical Turk. Their version is called Scale Solutions. This article gets a few things wrong but with reading. finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-ex...

I had the second to last lecture, on postcolonialism, for my undergraduate unit "Migrations et Société" at Université Grenoble Alpes. What a joy this was, I didn't realise I miss teaching (even in French!) so much!

The general elections in Romania sent to the second round and in pole positions a fascist. We're finally Europeans. Posted this on FB, could be of interest here as well

🧵 Migration Starter Packs and Feeds (regional mix), a thread. Note: Feel free to contribute. • Human Rights (ish) Academics (ish): go.bsky.app/QifxUJc • Migration & Borders Vol. I: go.bsky.app/TREFo1s • Migration & Borders Vol. II: go.bsky.app/SNcmsLQ • Immigration Research: go.bsky.app/Pj3Lv7f