I was always fond of @thesociologicalreview.org, which is, by the way, the oldest sociology journal in the UK. I am extremely happy and honoured to join today their editorial board.

Migrant, Entrepreneur, Man: Platform Food Couriers’ Navigation of Precarity and Vulnerability - Cosmin Popan, 2026 Work on food delivery platforms is characterised by increasing vulnerability and a disproportionate representation of a racialised male workforce composed prima...

What it's like to "be a man" doing platform food deliveries when you're caught between entrepreneurial discourses and precarious work? My latest (open access) publication, for the Journal of Sociology.

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Bicycling Into the Future - JSTOR Daily Across centuries, bicycles have embodied hopes for speed, freedom, efficiency, and survival.

The first issue of French bicycling magazine Le Vélocipède Illustré featured an illustration of “Lady Progress” riding an early “boneshaker” bicycle. (Post based on work by @cosminpopan.bsky.social
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وقّعوا على البيان "كان ياما كان: احترام حقوق المهاجرين في المغرب؟"

مع اقتراب بطولة كأس الأمم الأفريقية، تدعو منظمات المجتمع المدني والمدافعون عن حقوق الإنسان الدولة المغربية إلى الاحترام الكامل للحقوق الأساسية للمهاجرين. #can2025 #afcon2025 #canmaroc2025
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La répression déployée aujourd'hui nationalement est inadmissible, disproportionnée et démentielle, MAIS par contre on cessera pas d'attraper la veste des blancs qui expliquent que "c'est du jamais vu", alors que c'est le traitement réservé aux quartiers depuis des piges mais c'était pas votre dos.

End of residence in Grenoble: public projection of my work in progress film, Barça ou Barzakh (barcaoubarzakh.com). maci.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/fr/actualite...

Finally, the printed copy in my inbox! Thanks a lot @kurtvandaele.bsky.social & @silviarainone.bsky.social for the invitation. Check the edited volume at: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

One month until publication! 📚 Academic hardbacks are expensive, so let your local university library know if you’re interested. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c...

F*** psychopaths

'The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector'

Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Deported Migrants

Thank you, Matina, I'll come to Thessaloniki Film Festival inchallah

The website 4 the upcoming film "Barça Ou Barzakh" is live! barcaoubarzakh.com It features a selection of evocative stills, short introductions to the main characters, as well as the team behind the project. I'm also launching a crowdfunding campaign to support the production stage. Check and share

Been off here for a while — for good reason: working on a doc film about Senegalese migration, Barça ou Barzakh, coming next year. Follow the journey on Instagram: www.instagram.com/barcaoubarza... — website coming soon.

vieille carte scolaire murale de l'empire colonial français

Empire colonial français, système carcéral israélien avec Assia Zaino, guerre globale contre les peuples avec @mathieurigouste.bsky.social, et impérialismes tout azimuts, ce soir, on fait 1h de radio pour en découdre avec les colonialismes 💥 rencard à 23h sur #RadioCanut (102.2 - radiocanut.org) 📻

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work ‘Bringing together leading voices, this Companion offers a critical and forward-looking analysis of how to regulate the industry''s impact on work and workers. With insightful case studies and expert ...

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, co-edited with @silviarainone.bsky.social, is now available @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social
Thanks to the authors for their insights on app-based food delivery!

More info 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...

#GigEconomy #FoodForThought

Manchester University Press - The adventure The adventure - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The adventure by Dr Sébastien Bachelet

"The adventure: Violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco" [coming out very soon!]

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177681/

Atelier Science Infuse : Liberté, égalité, ubérisé YouTube video by Université Grenoble Alpes

Je parle français avec un petit accent, so please pardon my French! Here's a workshop drawing on my previous research on platform food couriers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfZD...

My latest publication: the book chapter "The changing composition of app-based food delivery couriers and the consequences for collectivism", written with Kristin Jesnes. Thank you, @kurtvandaele.bsky.social and @silviarainone.bsky.social for the invitation!

www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

It's been three weeks since I started my fieldwork in Dakar for the project Mobilise (Grenoble Alpes University). I'll be in Senegal for three months researching the future aspirations of local youth.

Près de 70 % des Français n’éprouvent pas de « sentiment de submersion » migratoire, selon une enquête sociale européenne Selon l’Enquête sociale européenne menée par des universitaires européens en 2023-2024 dans 31 pays, au moins 69 % les Français sont favorables à l’accueil d’étrangers dans notre pays.

Près de 70 % des Français n’éprouvent pas de « sentiment de submersion » migratoire, selon une enquête sociale européenne: Selon l’Enquête sociale européenne menée par des universitaires européens en 2023-2024 dans 31 pays, au moins 69 % les Français sont favorables à l’accueil d’étrangers dans…

I'm fortunate enough to be able to ambush my students with a guided visit to my exhibition on platform food couriers, all while discussing platform capitalism and TikTok influencers for their teaching unit Globalisation et Société.

If you work on migration -related issues you should check this call for proposal (English and French) for the issue “The other dead: belonging and claim-making in and beyond Africa” edited by my wonderful colleague Valentina Zagaria. Check it out!

journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb...

Wrapping up the 4 week unit block Globalisation et Société for second year undergraduate sociology students at Grenoble University with a lecture on mobilities and auto-mobilities and a workshop on radically redesigning a post-car Grenoble. John Urry's work on the system of automobility, ages well.

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Quitter X ? quitter Meta ? dépendre des fascistes pour s'organiser ? Pourquoi tout le monde kiffe autant Gramsci ? Autant de questions qu'on se pose dans notre dernière émission, "La bataille culturelle des internets" à l'écoute un peu partout : audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/139527/... 💻

Musk is the culmination of a slow-moving corporate coup by the oligarch class that has been decades in the making. But that doesn't change the fact that this marks a new and unspeakably dangerous chapter.

Sociological Review Journal Article of the Year 2023: Meet the co-authors and judges Online discussion spotlighting The Sociological Review's Journal Article of the Year 2023 winners, with contributions from co-authors of both papers and memb...

WATCH our 5 December online event celebrating the joint winners of our Journal Article of the Year 2023.

Cosmin Popan and Andrés Felipe Castro Torres were joined by Sweta Rajan-Rankin, Marie-Andrée Jacob and Rosie Read of the jury to discuss their research.

Liberté, égalité, uberisé - Bibliothèques universitaires - Université Grenoble Alpes

Tomorrow, between 13h and 13h45, I organise the workshop “Liberté, égalité, uberisé”, at Bibliothèque universitaire Joseph-Fourier (Auditorium), Grenoble Alpes University. Come and join if you can

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