David Guéranger announces the defense of his habilitation to supervise research in political science on November 26 at 1 p.m. at Gustave Eiffel University, Bienvenüe Building, Room A301.
The jury will be composed of:
- Catherine Achin (rapporteur)
- Paul Bouffartigue (rapporteur), Béatrice Hibou (rapporteur)
- Christian Le Bart (guarantor)
- Rémi Lefebvre
- Maud Simonet
- Béatrice Hibou (rapporteur)
Summary of the original thesis "Unfaithful loyalties. Municipal political engagement through the prism of its ordinary dissonances"
The thesis opens with a puzzle posed by the latest municipal elections: the countless declarations by mayors announcing that they would not seek re-election, followed by a remarkable re-election rate. The puzzle can be solved by attributing a strategic or moral sense to the mayors; it can also be seen as the possibility of being loyal without being faithful, of remaining a practitioner while having lost faith. This interpretation opens up a reflection on the ordinary misalignments of commitment, forms of loyalty despite everything, more intermittent and ambivalent, from which it is difficult to simply infer adherence or satisfaction. Often conceptualized in terms of abnormality and psychology (such as cognitive dissonance), these misalignments are understood in the thesis as a common and ordinary component of mayors' political commitment. They are also reinserted into social spaces and trajectories that give them varying meanings. Thus, as the reflections unfold, various ways of rationalizing and legitimizing the discrepancies inherent in political engagement emerge, that is, accepting them without necessarily seeking to reduce them.