The SAP Board of Directors and the BMSAP Editorial Committee associate themselves with the motion by Revues en lutte (below), which calls “to mobilise against the far right (…) and to rally around the programme of the Nouveau Front populaire, which carries values of intellectual and scientific freedom in which we firmly believe”. The urgency of the situation in which the thoughtless and dangerous decision of Emmanuel Macron has placed us did not allow us to consult all SAP members on this matter; we therefore specify that we do not speak on behalf of the Society. Nevertheless, we hope that our members will show the discernment and commitment that the situation requires.
Revues en lutte: the social sciences against the far right
Press release — 26 June 2024
The decision of the President of the Republic to dissolve the National Assembly opens up a historic risk of seeing the far right come to power, leading the country to the edge of the abyss. In this dramatic situation, we, social science journals, cannot remain without reacting, nor without speaking out.
The Rassemblement national is not a political formation within the democratic spectrum. In many circumstances, the far right has shown its hostility towards the social sciences, its contempt for the staff who help produce critical knowledge about societies, and its commitment to curtailing academic freedoms. As documented by numerous investigations, when it comes to power, the far right reduces public freedoms and violently attacks the rights of minorities (women, gender and sexual minorities, immigré·es and racialised minorities, people with disabilities, etc.). It also attacks social science research and those who produce it, in order to censor scientific knowledge. The values, objectives and methods defended by and in our journals are incompatible with the practices and with the vision of society carried by the RN. We refuse the prospect of bringing our research to heel, the regimentation of the social sciences and censorship against critical thinking, which would inevitably occur with a Ministry of Higher Education and Research under an RN government. In a knowledge economy that continues to become impoverished, it is our very existence as pluralist journals that is threatened. We join the calls on Higher Education and Research staff to mobilise against the far right and to prevent it from coming to power. We call for rallying around the programme of the Nouveau Front populaire, which carries values of intellectual and scientific freedom in which we firmly believe.
The first 64 signatory journals: Sociétés contemporaines, Esprit critique, Cahiers d’histoire. Revue d’histoire critique, Journal des anthropologues, Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire, Sociologies pratiques, Trema, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, Politique africaine, Tumultes, TV/Series, Biens symboliques / Symbolic Goods, Cambouis, la revue des sciences sociales aux mains sales ! Urbanités, Brésil(s). Sciences humaines et sociales, Salariat. Revue de sciences sociales, Le Temps des Médias. Revue d’histoire, Transposition, musique et sciences sociales, Communications, Filigrane. Musique, Sons, Esthétique, Société, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ), Cahiers de littérature orale, Politix. Revue des sciences sociales du politique, La vie des idées, Langage et Société, Lectures Anthropologiques, Gouvernement et action publique (GAP), Communication & langages, STAPS, GLAD! Revue sur le langage, le genre, les sexualités, BMS. Bulletin de méthodologie sociologique/Bulletin of sociological methodology, Genre & Histoire, Genre, Sexualité & Société, Tracés, Monde commun: des anthropologues dans la cité, Alter, Revue européenne de recherche sur le handicap/European Journal of Disability Research, Anthropologie & Santé, Politiques de communication, Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, RESET – Recherches en sciences sociales sur internet, Mouvements, French Cultural Studies, Revue www.ethnographiques.org, Esclavages & Post-esclavages, Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle, Poli-Politiques des Cultural Studies, Raisons politiques, Participations, Métropoles, Projets de paysage, Glottopol, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Laboratoire italien. Politique et société, Travail, genre et sociétés, Cahiers du genre, Cahiers des Amériques latines, Espaces et sociétés, Histoire de l’éducation, Cahiers François Viète, L’Homme. Revue française d’anthropologie, Nouvelles Questions Féministes, Justice Spatiale | Spatial Justice, Critique internationale, Journal de la Société des américanistes.
Contact: @RevuesEnLutte / com_mob_revues@framalistes.org