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...

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.

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.

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.

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 on

I tried very hard to become famous in Europe, without much success though. Everything will change now that my work has finally been published by an influential Chinese news outlet, The Paper, which has an average of 8,6 M daily readers.

www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_f...

Subtle Orientalism. Leïla Slimani's "Le pays des autres" (2020) and the more recent "Houris" by Kamel Daoud (Prix Goncourt 2024), set in post-colonial (or thereabouts) Morocco and Algeria respectively, are undoubtedly good books.

Last gig work exhibition of the year, at Maison de la Création et l'Innovation (University Grenoble Alpes). On display this week and early next year as a teaser for the much bigger exhibition I will organise at the Bibliothèque universitaire Droit et Lettres (details to come).

With a glowing review! Thank you, Rosie Read

Today I'll discuss the award winning paper I wrote for @sociologicalreview.bsky.social with @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social and David Perez "Cards against gamification: Using a role-playing game to tell alternative futures in the gig economy". thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

I had the second to last lecture, on postcolonialism, for my undergraduate unit "Migrations et Société" at Université Grenoble Alpes. What a joy this was, I didn't realise I miss teaching (even in French!) so much!

The general elections in Romania sent to the second round and in pole positions a fascist. We're finally Europeans. Posted this on FB, could be of interest here as well

Two years and a half after moving to Lyon, I am slowly infiltrating the bastion of French academia. Here's a peak into my first article in French, in preparation for the journal "Écologie & Politique". To be published in Spring 2025.