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his doctoral seminar is open to doctoral students from all doctoral schools at Paris 8 and elsewhere, as well as to young (and not so young) researchers of all statuses.
How do you become an activist? Is there such a thing as "activist knowledge", and if so, what are its characteristics? How does knowledge acquired "on the job" through activist experience, and by definition not easily identifiable, call into question pre-existing knowledge, shake up worldviews, and even radically alter (future) activists' relationship to knowledge[1]? These questions are addressed through research into the activist experience and activist training.
Five sessions of this seminar have already been organized in 2024 and 2025. The aim is to extend, broaden and deepen a first publication on this theme[2] by opening the floor to both established researchers and younger researchers presenting their doctoral or post-doctoral work, which may still be in progress. These may concern union or association activism, partisan commitment, popular education, feminist or ecologist struggles, or any other collective activist practice (ZADs, etc.), with a focus on the effects on activists' relationship to knowledge of training organized within collectives and/or experiential learning resulting from activist practices.
Each session begins with the guest presenting his or her research, followed by a scientific debate on the presentation. At the end of each session, the participants are invited to draw links between the various sessions and identify perspectives for the rest of the seminar.
