CEPEL

Emmanuel NEGRIER

Career History

  • A member of CEPEL since its inception; CNRS Researcher (1991), then Research Director (2006)

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Political Science

Awards, Honors, and Coordination of or Participation in Research Projects

  • Jean Viard Thesis Prize, from the Académie Française – 1989
  • CNRS Bronze Medal – 1999
  • Scientific coordination of BeSpectACTive, an international research-in-action project under the European CREATIVE EUROPE program
  • Coordination of FESTUDY, a comparative study of festivals in Europe
  • Participation in the Observatory on Political Change (OCP) in partnership with the University of Barcelona (UB) and the ICPS (Barcelona Provincial Council and UAB)
  • Participation in the Mediterranean Cities Research Program, Cities Chair at the École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées (D. Lorrain)
  • Participation in the Global Suburbanism research program, coordinated by York University in Toronto (R. Keil)

Administrative responsibilities, research, and outreach

Editor-in-Chief of Pôle Sud, Journal of Political Science

  • Thesis supervision
    • Passavant, Lisa, New Sources of Funding for Regional Policies; CIFRE Fellowship, 2012–2015
    • Claire Dedieu, The Impact of State Reform Policies on Local Government Action Regarding Water Resource Protection, IRSTEA Fellowship 2013–2016
    • Kamilia Berkani, University of Evry, co-supervised by Philippe Gumplowicz, on the topic: “Toward a Cultural Mediation of World Music: A Socio-Anthropological Analysis of Music. The Reception of World Music: Issues, Methodology, and Corpus,” 2013–2016
  • Education
    • Sociology of Art, Professional Master’s Degree (M2), Conservation and Management of 20th-Century Artworks, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III

Interactions with the environment

  • A political scientist who is a regular guest on regional radio and television stations, as well as in general and specialized print media
  • A frequent speaker on the following topics: territorial reform, cultural policy, regional politics, the sociology of culture, and festivals

The 5 most representative works

  • The End of National Cultures, Paris: La Découverte (with L. Bonet), 2008; translated into Italian (Armando Editore, 2010) and Turkish (Bilgi University Press, 2015)
  • World Music and Its Audiences. Marseille: Le Mot et le Reste, 2014
  • Music Festivals: A Changing World, Paris: Editions Michel de Maule, 2013, edited in collaboration with Lluis Bonet and Michel Guérin, and published simultaneously in English under the title Music Festivals: A Changing World by the same publisher
  • Festival Audiences(ed. with A. Djakouane and M. Jourda), Paris: Michel de Maule, 2010
  • The Metropolitan Question: Presses universitaires de Grenoble, Symposium series, 2005

The 5 most representative articles

  • “Metropolitan Solidarity Put to the Test by Policy: A Comparative Study of France and Spain,” Sociology and Societies, vol. XLV, no. 2, Fall 2013, pp. 269–292 (with M. Tomas)
  • “Le Pen and the People: The Geopolitics of the FN Vote in Languedoc-Roussillon,” Pôle Sud No. 37, pp. 153–164, 2012
  • “Cultural Policies in Spain: Processes and Dialectics,” Cultural Trends, Vol. 19, No. 1–2, 2010, pp. 41–52 (with Lluís Bonet)
  • “Cultural Policies: France and Southern Europe,” Política y Sociedad, vol. 44, no. 3, 2007, pp. 54–70
  • “Political Rescaling and Municipal Cultural Public Policies: A Comparison of France and Québec,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2007, pp. 128–145 (with J.P. Colin and S. Breux)