This participatory and multidisciplinary research project aims to analyze the social and urban reconfigurations underway in the “popular” neighbourhoods from the perspective of their youth. The goal of this study is to understand the experiences of youths, from their territorial anchorages, their individual and collective trajectories and their social representations. By situating them in a history and present of the “popular” neighbourhoods, it tries to capture the different conflicting dynamics that contribute to these reconfigurations. To do this, it relies on a threefold approach: it is based on this youth's experience; it grasps the metropolitan area from the perspective of “popular” neighbourhoods; it develops participatory methods in a citizen sciences perspective. It responds to both methodological issues, epistemological and theoretical.

The CAGE project aims at evaluating the efficiency of collective bargaining on professional gender equality. As a matter of fact, it is through the negotiation of firm-level agreements that the legislator seeks to engage firms to act for gender equality and, since the early 2000’s, several reforms have been enacted to better support collective bargaining in this field. In this context, we propose a multi-disciplinary approach where sociology, economics and modern history interact closely, to achieve two main goals: (i) to contribute to the knowledge and the understanding of collective bargaining for workplace gender equality in French firms and of how it has evolved in relation with legislative changes; (ii) to test whether the last decade of legislative changes has been effective in reducing workplace gender inequalities and to examine the circumstances under which these changes have proven most effective. To reach these objectives, we intend to exploit the text corpora on professional gender equality in an innovative way, with the idea to start building a research infrastructure allowing to assess the effectiveness of bargaining obligations and outcomes. The project plans to design a measurement framework for assessing the quality of gender equality texts and to apply it to a representative sample of texts that generate social norms in the field of professional gender equality (laws, branch collective agreements, company collective agreements and unilateral action plans). The access to the resulting database will be opened to the research community and the methods developed could be subsequently extended to other bargaining topics and to other countries. Another originality of our proposal lies in the willingness to analyse in an integrated way combining qualitative and quantitative methods the production dynamics of texts at the employer level and their impacts on a set of gender outcome gaps. Our text corpora database will then be matched with different data sources at the firm- or establishment-level. We plan to exploit the DARES statistical database of agreements (D@ccord) to have information on the whole set of agreements concluded over the period 2006-2013. Supplementary information on personnel management policies, wage policies, the presence and the nature of employee representatives, the conduct of bargaining or the existence of collective disputes within establishments will be gathered by matching D@ccord with the REPONSE surveys conducted in 2005 and 2011. The characteristics of the establishments in terms of wage distribution, workforce composition or worker flows will be available through the DADS files (Déclarations Annuelles de Données Sociales) over the 2006-2013 period. At last, we will extract information on access to training broken down by gender and occupation using the 24-83 fiscal record over the same period of study. This will allow us to better know the contextual elements of the gender equality bargaining and to analyse quantitatively dynamics of texts’ production processes. We will establish a taxonomy of the different gender equality bargaining configurations and then conduct fieldwork to examine in depth the bargaining processes in each of the identified categories of bargaining situations. In the course of this work, we plan to associate a network of institutional actors and stakeholders involved in collective bargaining. Our data base will also allow us to analyse the effect of bargaining outcomes on a set of measures of gender inequalities, in terms of wages, access to employment or training incidence. In this respect, we will address carefully the identification issues, to assess precisely the causal effect of the incidence and content bargaining outcomes on gender inequalities.

The general objective of the ANTRACT project is the analysis of the images and sounds produced weekly in the framework of an independent company created in 1945, les Actualités françaises (French News), over twenty five years. This major cinematographic vector, already partially worked, has never been the subject of a systematic analysis. Thanks to recent technological tools for the analysis of textual and audiovisual contents, image, video and sound analysis, automatic speech transcription and textometry in particular, the aim is to provide the scientific community with new analysis frameworks. Technological, historical, methodological and heritage issues are identified. The technological challenge lies in the improvement of the analysis technologies of speech and image modalities, in the joint exploitation of available modalities (image, text and speech) for qualitative and quantitative analysis, and in the specification and implementation of tools adapted to the documents treated and to the uses prescribed by the historical analysis of this corpus. The historical issue is divided into four orientations: 1) the evolution of France in its colonial, economic, social, political, cultural and international dimension; 2) the way in which media representations and social facts are articulated; 3) the memorial dimension and 4) the construction of an audiovisual history. The methodological challenge lies in the implementation of a coherent and comprehensive methodological approach and is the general objective of the project. The heritage issue lies in the importance of this corpus which the project proposes to enrich and make available to researchers and general public. The project presents both fundamental research dimensions for historical research and for its transdisciplinary approach, as well as the dimensions of experimental development for technological work, which largely involves adapting the tools of the partners to the uses and the data of the project. The choice is made to deposit it as an experimental development project. The project is coordinated by Pascale Goetschel, Director of the Center for Social History of the 20th Century (Paris 1). The consortium brings together academic, industrial and institutional partners, specialized and recognized in the fields of history, textometry, image and video analysis, speech processing and audiovisual archives management. The project is organized according to a principle that underpins the transdisciplinary aspect of the project. Sub-project 1 is reserved for the coordination of the project. Sub-project 2 groups together tasks related to corpus gathering, data management and technological research. Sub-project 3 is the main place for methodological and transdisciplinary reflection, following an iterative principle of successive phases of expressions of needs, experiments and feedback. Sub-project 4 regroups the tasks that produce the project's actual results in terms of science, technology, industry and heritage. At the end of the project, the results will be made available as widely as possible. The corpus enriched with data and metadata will be made available to the scientific and technological community. The software modules will be offered in open source whenever possible and a web portal will be opened. In addition, the Voxolab company will integrate the results of research carried out in speech transcription.

The object of the CAUSIMMI project is the area of mobilization of the immigrant cause from the years 1960 until today. It aims to study the collective movements, organizations and biographies of activists of this cause, which we define as all the mobilizations aspiring to equal rights and treatment in France, between nationals and foreigners or perceived as such, in various fields: entry and right to stay in France, housing, work, health, police and justice, or treatment by the administration and public action. The project will contribute to the visibility and the memory of the political history of immigration. It will go beyond the tendency to disperse existing monographs, focused on a mobilization, an organization, a current or a period of this immigrant cause, to better articulate them and grasp them transversally. In this field still lacking a tag, CAUSIMMI will thus produce: a monographic database compiling these organizations and indicating for each of them a brief description of their characteristics; typologies of these organizations; maps specifying their locations; organizational charts; timelines. In addition, the CAUSIMMI project will apprehend the immigrant cause from the trajectory of its actors, thanks to a corpus of approximately 500 activists' life courses, necessary for the constitution of a representative panel of the different components of this cause. These biographies will combine an analysis of commitments, a study of family and migration trajectories, training, socio-professional status, religious affiliation, and of course political, union and associative activities in France and, where applicable, in the country. original. A sociobiographical study will be drawn from it. By bringing together all of these elements on a website, CAUSIMMI will offer a global vision of this cause and its developments over time.