CEPEL

Manon RATEL

Career history

Doctor of Political Science and Assistant Professor at the University of Law and Political Science in Montpellier.

Thesis project

Abstract:The aim of this thesis research was to contribute to understanding the transformation of the French education system and the state by examining the specific characteristics of the territories in which it operates and the differentiated treatment of populations through it. Specifically, it sought to address, through the narrow focus of a single department, the issues revealed by a "diversity" program launched at the city level in 2016. The study was conducted among various communities and groups of actors involved in the process of school re-sectorization, the stated objective of which is to "increase diversity."Ultimately, the dynamics that shape the territory are based on the logic of categorization and spatialized treatment of populations.

Keywords:governance – territorial inequalities – education – public action – mechanism

Lessons

  • Local Government, CM, M1, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2022-2023.
  • Introduction to Political Science, CM, L1, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2022-2023.
  • Public Action and Governance, M1, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2022-2023.
  • Local Power, M1, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2021-2022.
  • Introduction to Political Science, L1, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2021-2022.
  • Public Action and Governance, M1, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2021-2022.
  • Introduction to Public Policy, L3, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2021-2022.
  • Sociology of Journalism, M1, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2019-2020.
  • Great Classics of Sociology, L2, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2019-2020.
  • Research Methodology, M1, Faculty of Education, Montpellier, 2018-2019.
  • Introduction to Political Science, L1, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2018-2019.

Awards, and coordination or participation in research projects

  • Affiliation with the Convergences Migration Institute, INTEGER department, Integration-Discrimination, 2021-2022
  • 2017 Regional Council Award for Best Work on a Topic of Regional Interest.

Publications and communications

Article

  • Ratel Manon, (Preliminary agreement February 2023) Forms of depoliticization in the service of school governance. Mechanics of depoliticization: lexicons, rhetoric, and discursive dynamics, No. 134, March 2024.
  • Ratel Manon, Inequalities: readjusting and questioning the focus on territories, Diversité magazine, (No. 199), September–December 2020.

Review

  • Arnaud Alessandrin and Johanna Dagorn (eds.), "Territorial Discrimination: Cities & Suburbs," Les cahiers de la LCD, no. 12, 2021, Manon Ratel
  • Claire Dupuy, Regionalization without inequality. Regional education policies in France and Germany, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017, 192 p. in Pôle Sud 2020/2 (no. 53), pages 135 to 144, Manon Ratel.

Communication

  • Ratel Manon, The Multiple Resources of Experimentation – Contribution to the Study of an Experimental and Unprecedented School Sectorization Process in the Region, CSO Study Day, Health Chair and IRDES, May 23, 2023, Sciences Po Paris.
  • Ratel Manon, Considering the extensions of process tracing in research on change in public education policy, AFSP, Lille, July 5-7, 2022.
  • Ratel Manon, Transformation of the state through process tracing of education policy reform. 5th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP5), Barcelona, July 5-9, 2021.
  • Ratel Manon, Between marginalization and the demand for mobility in urban contexts, AFS Lille, July 5-9, 2021.
  • Ratel Manon, School zoning system—From the dynamics of ranking to the fear of downgrading: when spatial categorization reinforces social marginalization, 21st AISLF Congress, Tunis, July 12–16, 2021
  • Émilie Biland-Curinier, Governing Private Life: The Unequal Regulation of Marital Separations in France and Quebec, June 18, 2021. Discussion with Estelle Aldegheri and Manon Ratel.
  • Ratel Manon, Local authorities through the lens of institutional reforms: rationale, challenges, and public perception, 15th AFSP Congress, Bordeaux, July 2–4, 2019.
  • Ratel Manon, Authority and Legitimacy: A Sociological Approach to Concepts through Public Policy, Symposium on "Authority," Montpellier Law School, June 11, 2019.
  • Ratel Manon, Resistance to research in the field of public education policy in France, Lausanne Ethnography Workshop, University of Lausanne, May 27-28, 2019.
  • Julien Talpin and Julien O’Miel, Islam and the City: Muslim Engagement in Working-Class Neighborhoods (ed. Franck Frégosi, PUF, 2017) , March 29, 2019, discussion with Arthur Groz and Manon Ratel.
  • Ratel Manon, Vareilles Roman, "Reform of coeducation and racial discrimination: from a consensual problematization to a conflictual territorial translation," International and interdisciplinary symposium, Paris Diderot University, September 27-29, 2018.
  • Ratel Manon, Zoïa Geneviève, "Racism and religion in schools: institutional panic? What a public policy of mixing school populations reveals," RIED symposium, University of Geneva, June 18-20, 2018.

Scientific responsibilities and activities

  • Supervision of M1 research dissertations between 2021 and 2023.
  • Organizer of the CEPEL 2022 Young Researchers Seminar.
  • Co-organizer and organizer of the seminar "Current Research in Social Sciences at CEPEL" (Montpellier) 2019-2021, and the young researchers seminar 2019-2020.
  • Activities with the Association Recherche Éducation Action (AREA), steering committee for the Hérault slum observatory, Montpellier, 2017–2018.

Degrees

  • 2021: PhD Political Science
  • 2021: Scientific Data Management, University of Montpellier.
  • 2017: Master's degree in bilingual research, "Comparative Public Action and Policy," University of Montpellier, with honors.
  • 2016: Bachelor's and Master's 1 in Political Science, University of Montpellier, grade: Assez Bien (Fairly Good).
  • 2013: University Diploma, College of Law I, with honors.