Cosmin Popan
@cosminpopan.bsky.social
Sociologist. Post-doc Grenoble Alpes University. Migration, mobilities, imaginaries, labour. France, Senegal, Romania. https://linktr.ee/cosmin.popan
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Cosmin Popan
@cosminpopan.bsky.social
· May 28
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
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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.
En nommant comme PM le ministre des armées la veille d'un mouvement social, et en laissant les pleins pouvoirs du "maintien de l'ordre" à Retailleau, Macron envoie un msg limpide.
Les blindés Centaure (concus pour les attaques terro et les catastrophes naturelles) viennent d'être déployés à Rennes.
Les blindés Centaure (concus pour les attaques terro et les catastrophes naturelles) viennent d'être déployés à Rennes.
September 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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...
"Barça ou Barzakh..." - Exposition, Projection, par Cosmin POPAN | MaCI - Université Grenoble Alpes
maci.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
September 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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...
August 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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...
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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...
August 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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
In a country that already has experienced a concerted summer of riots, this language and imagery is just deeply irresponsible. Many people ride for these companies every day and they deserve to get home safely and without harassment or fear.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
F*** psychopaths
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'The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector'
Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
July 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
'The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector'
Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
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U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Deported Migrants
wsj.com
www.wsj.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Deported Migrants
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
May 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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.
May 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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.
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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) 📻
April 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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) 📻
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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
Thanks to the authors for their insights on app-based food delivery!
More info 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...
#GigEconomy #FoodForThought
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 ...
www.e-elgar.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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
Thanks to the authors for their insights on app-based food delivery!
More info 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...
#GigEconomy #FoodForThought
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"The adventure: Violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco" [coming out very soon!]
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177681/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177681/
Manchester University Press - The adventure
The adventure - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The adventure by Dr Sébastien Bachelet
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March 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"The adventure: Violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco" [coming out very soon!]
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177681/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177681/
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfZD...
Atelier Science Infuse : Liberté, égalité, ubérisé
YouTube video by Université Grenoble Alpes
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March 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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...
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...
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
March 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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...
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.
March 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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.
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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…
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.
theconversation.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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.
February 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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.
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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...
journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb...
journals.openedition.org
February 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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...
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.
February 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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.
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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.
Trump, with Netanyahu sitting next to him, says "Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now ... you can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location."
February 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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.
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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/... 💻
January 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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/... 💻
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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.
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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.
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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.
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.
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...
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January 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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.
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.
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
bibliotheques.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/a...
bibliotheques.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/a...
Liberté, égalité, uberisé - Bibliothèques universitaires - Université Grenoble Alpes
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January 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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
bibliotheques.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/a...
bibliotheques.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/a...