Erik Bleich
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Les médias et les marginalisés : Représentation des mouvements de justice raciale aux Etats-Unis et en France
La plupart des résidents des Etats-Unis et de France ont peu de contacts, d’interactions directes avec le mouvement Black Lives Matter. Combien de personnes connaissent les mouvements pour la justice raciale, avec quelle fréquence pensent-ils à ce sujet, imaginent-ils leurs participants comme bienveillants ou menaçants ; les questions qu’ils associent à ce sujet reposent le plus souvent en grande partie sur ce qu'ils glanent dans les médias.
Ce projet de recherche explore la façon dont les médias nationaux et internationaux représentent de tels mouvements à l’intérieur de leur propre état et en dehors. Il utilise des méthodes assistées par ordinateur permettant l'analyse de dizaines de milliers d'articles de journaux avec des lectures détaillées d'échantillons des récits. Cette approche révèle comment les médias dépeignent les mouvements de justice raciale et donc comment ils façonnent les attitudes envers les groupes marginalisés au sein des sociétés.
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Erik Bleich joined the Political Science department of Middlebury College in the fall of 1999 after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has served as Director of European Studies and Director of International Politics & Economics, and is currently Professor of Political Science. His most recent book, The Freedom to Be Racist? How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism (Oxford University Press, 2011), explores how the United States and European liberal democracies balance a desire to promote freedom with the goal of curbing racism, focusing on hard cases in which people use liberal democratic freedoms to propagate racism. His broader research interests revolve around the topics of race and ethnicity in West European politics. His first book, Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s (Cambridge University Press, 2003) examines how theories of ideas and policymaking help explain different race policy outcomes in the two countries. Since that time, he has published on topics such as hate crimes, political violence, the status of Muslims, the concept of Islamophobia, ethnic riots, theories of immigration and integration, and the legacies of colonial history on contemporary policymaking. His articles have appeared in journals such as World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, the European Political Science Review, West European Politics, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Theory & Society. He has also edited and contributed to the book Muslims and the State in the Post-9/11 West (Routledge, 2010), and co-edited and contribued to the book Migrants, Minorities and the Media : Information, representations and Pariticpation in the Public Sphere (Routledge 2017).
