Science at UM [S03-ep03]: The displaced: portraits of miners in detention
This week on A l’UM la science, Laurent Solini, sociologist at the SanteSIH laboratory, presents "Les déplacés. Portraits de jeunes sous-main de justice" (The displaced: Portraitsof young people under judicial supervision). In the second part of the program, Agnès Pesenti gives us the program for the Fête de la science (Science Festival).
Bodies in motion is the theme of the latest issue of LUM, the University's science and society magazine. In this 20th issue, we invite you to explore the body through the work of some fifteen researchers. A body that, when it fails or is subjected to extreme stress, can rely on science to help astronauts regain their muscle strength after a stay in space, for example, or restore movement to people with quadriplegia through neural electrostimulation.
Talking about bodies in motion naturally leads to a discussion of sports. Sports are viewed positively in our society, which sometimes causes us to overlook the fact that they are also subject to numerous gender stereotypes and discriminatory practices that are highly questionable from a legal standpoint, such as femininity tests, and even dangerous practices such as doping.
The body is also the primary and perhaps ultimate locus of socialization. Yet it remains one of the great unspoken aspects of school, even though, paradoxically, it can play a predominant role in prison institutions, as demonstrated in the work of Laurent Solini, a sociologist at the Santesih laboratory, who investigated the hypervisibility and hyperactivity of the body in juvenile detention centers (EPM).
Today, we continue this issue of LUM by dedicating this program to his latest work. A collective work that he co-edited with two other sociologists, Jennifer Yeghicheyan and Christine Menneson, entitled " Les déplacés. Portrait de parcours de jeunes sous main de justice ." Based on field research conducted between 2018 and 2020 in juvenile detention centers, the authors of this book paint a portrait of four young people under judicial supervision and attempt to understand how this discontinuous socialization structures the paths of these minors and shapes their behavior and subjectivity.
To go further:
- L. Solini, Serving one's sentence at the Lavaur juvenile detention center, 2017, Champs social.
- L. Solini, "Libérable, the common expression for a minor's release from prison,"2022, in French Ethnology.
- L. Solini, " Leaving the cell/remaining in the cell A sociology of the paradoxical experiences of detention in juvenile detention centers ," 2017 , in Agora Youth Debates.
In the second part of the program, Agnès Pesenti from the UM's scientific culture department will give us the program for the Science Festival, which begins on October 6 in Montpellier.
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