Supervised theses

Maryline El Khoury (under the supervision of Bruno Frère)

The current thesis project involves the ethnography of a mobilization of workers at a Mc Donald's restaurant in Marseille's northern neighborhoods who, after a union struggle for job protection, refuse to leave their work tool, will protect it by occupying the restaurant and transforming the activity for collective purposes. During the health crisis and the confinement of December 2020, the building, which has been judicially liquidated, will be mobilized as an organizing space for the distribution of food parcels, for the organization of legal aid for illegal immigrants, etc. The successive occupations of the site have been an opportunity to imagine an alternative socio-economic and political model. While the project's administrators have been referring to the ZADs since the beginning of the mobilization, and recall the cooperative heritage to which they belong, it is in the form of a Société coopérative d'intérêt collectif (SCIC) that they are going to reopen the restaurant, with the help of volunteers, local residents, associations, local authorities and others.

The aim of the survey is to understand whether the model put in place by the founders of Après M is a viable solution and a tenable alternative to the Mc Donald's business model. What form does this tenable alternative take, in both ideological and organizational terms? What is the value of work defended? How do they define mutual aid? How does it all fit together?

Charline Jamar (under the supervision of Mona Claro and Frédéric Schoenaers).

The aim of this thesis project is to study the experience of women suffering from gyneco-sexual pain. It will be carried out in French-speaking Belgium, between Liège, Brussels and Louvain, where the three Walloon university hospitals are located. Different types of stakeholders will be interviewed: healthcare professionals (doctors, gynecologists, sexologists, psychologists and physiotherapists) and women with pain (diagnosed or undiagnosed).

The research aims to study gyneco-sexual pain in 3 areas:

• How is sexual pain viewed in the medical sphere? How is a patient suffering from sexual pain cared for?
• How does sexual pain emerge for the woman suffering from it (within and outside her couple)? How and under what conditions does she recognize that this is a problem to be solved? How does she come to seek help or not?
• How can sexual pain be analyzed from a gender perspective? What links can be established between pain and "violence"?

Unless extended, the thesis will run until the end of 2026.