CEPEL

Manon RATEL

Career path

Doctor of political science and ATER at the University of Law and Political Science of Montpellier.

Thesis project

Abstract: This thesis research aimed to contribute to the understanding of the transformation of the French education system and the State, by understanding the specificities of the territories in which it is deployed, and the differentiated treatment of populations through it. It was precisely a question of addressing, through the narrow focus of a department, the problems revealed by a "mixity" system initiated on a city scale in 2016. The study was conducted with different communities and groups of actors who gravitate around the process of school resectorization whose stated objective is to "gain diversity". Ultimately , the dynamics that sediment the territory are based on the logic of categorization and spatialized treatment of populations.

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

Teaching

  • Local power, 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 policies, 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 of 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 Migrations Institute, INTEGER department, Integration-discrimination, 2021-2022
  • 2017 Regional Council Award for Best Work on a Subject of Regional Interest .

Publications and communications

Article

  • Ratel Manon, (Prior 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 review, (n°199), September-December 2020.

Review

  • Arnaud Alessandrin and Johanna Dagorn (dir.), “Territorial discrimination. City & Suburbs”, LCD notebooks, n° 12, 2021, Manon Ratel
  • Claire Dupuy, Regionalization without inequalities. Regional education policies in France and Germany, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017, 192 p. in Pôle Sud 2020/2 (n° 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 territory, CSO study day, Health Chair and IRDES, May 23, 2023, Sciences Po Paris.
  • Ratel Manon, Thinking about the extensions of process tracing in research around change in public educational action, AFSP, Lille July 5-7, 2022.
  • Ratel Manon, Transformation of the state through process tracing of education policies reform. 5th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP5), Barcelona, July 5-9, 2021.
  • Ratel Manon, Between assignment to the “margins” and injunction to mobility in an urban context, AFS Lille, July 5-9, 2021.
  • Ratel Manon, School sectorization system - From the dynamics of classification 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 supervision of marital separations in France and Quebec, June 18, 2021. Discussion Estelle Aldegheri and Manon Ratel.
  • Ratel Manon, Local authorities through the prism of institutional reforms; logic, issues and perception by public opinion, 15th AFSP congress, Bordeaux, July 2-4, 2019.
  • Ratel Manon, Authority and legitimacy: sociological approach to notions through public policy, “Authority” conference, Montpellier law faculty, June 11, 2019.
  • Ratel Manon, Resistance to research in the field of educational public policies in France, Lausanne ethnography workshop, University of Lausanne, May 27-28, 2019.
  • Julien Talpin and Julien O'Miel, Islam and the City. Muslim Commitments in Working-Class Neighborhoods, (dir. Franck Frégosi, PUF, 2017), March 29, 2019, discussion Arthur Groz and Manon Ratel.
  • Ratel Manon, Vareilles Roman, “Reform of school diversity and racial discrimination: from a consensual problematization to a conflictual territorial translation”, International and interdisciplinary conference, Université Paris Diderot, September 27-29, 2018.
  • Ratel Manon, Zoïa Geneviève, “Racism and religions at school, institutional panics? What a public policy of mixing school audiences reveals”, RIED conference, University of Geneva, June 18-20, 2018.

Responsibilities and scientific activities

  • Supervision of M1 research dissertation between 2021 and 2023.
  • Organizer of the CEPEL 2022 young researchers seminar.
  • Co-organizer and organizer of the seminar “Current events in social sciences research at CEPEL” (Montpellier) 2019-2021, and of the young researchers seminar 2019 – 2020.
  • Activities with the Association recherche éducation action -AREA-, pilot mission of the Hérault shanty town observatory, Montpellier, 2017-2018.

Diplomas

  • 2021: PhD in political science
  • 2021: DU Scientific Data Management, University of Montpellier.
  • 2017: Bilingual Master 2 Research “Comparative Public Action and Politics”, University of Montpellier, with honors.
  • 2016: Bachelor's & Master's 1 in Political Science, University of Montpellier, with honors.
  • 2013: University Diploma from the College of Law I, with honors.