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.

The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · 6mo ago

⭐ WELCOME to the 20 scholars who have joined The Sociological Review journal’s Editorial Board this month Read more about these appointments: buff.ly/Jvu5XS0

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. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HDW2T...

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...

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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 daily.jstor.org/bicycling-in...

Bicycling Into the Future - JSTOR Daily

Across centuries, bicycles have embodied hopes for speed, freedom, efficiency, and survival.

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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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

Karen Gregory@karengregory.bsky.social · last yr.

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. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

'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

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.

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, 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

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 ...

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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/

Manchester University Press - The adventure

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

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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...

Atelier Science Infuse : Liberté, égalité, ubérisé

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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…

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.

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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.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

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."

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/... 💻

Minuit Décousu@minuitdecousu.bsky.social · 2y ago

La politique à l’assaut d’internet, des vidéastes en croisade, une théorie italienne et des plateformes... À partir de 23h, on en découd avec la bataille culturelle des internets mondiaux sur Radio Canut ! (102.2Mhz - radiocanut.org) 💻

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.

Kara Swisher@karaswisher.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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.

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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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...

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

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La réponse cinglante et pertinente du premier ministre du Sénégal Ousmane Sonko à Emmanuel Macron à propos du départ des forces armées françaises. Sous cette présidence, l’abaissement de la France en politique intérieure s’accompagne d’un effondrement en politique extérieure.