Visiting PhD student | Winter 2024

Contact : pierre-luc.beauchesne.1@umontreal.ca

Presentation

Pierre-Luc Beauchesne is a PhD candidate in sociology at the Université de Montréal. His research focuses on social movements and youth politicization in Morocco since the 2011 Arab uprisings. His thesis examines the political conflicts and student activism within university campuses. Building upon extensive fieldwork, his dissertation is aiming to propose a better understanding of the effects of authoritarian constraints on political competition between militant collectives and individual politicization of students within university spaces. In parallel, as part of the PLURADICAL research group and the TRYSPACES partnership, he took part in research about the representations of the phenomena of radicalization, and the spatial practices of young Montrealers in the urban space.

Areas of expertise

• Authoritarianisms
• Maghreb
• Social movements
• Youth policies
• Radicalization

Publications

(2019) L’après-mobilisation : le Mouvement du 20 Février au Maroc, de la désillusion au redéploiement de l’engagement, Politique et sociétés, 38(3), p. 51-77. https://doi.org/10.7202/1064730ar.

(2020) (Avec Valérie Amiraux) Racialization and the Construction of the Problem of Muslim Presence in Western Societies, in Shahram Akbarzadeh (sous la dir. de), Routledge Handbook of Political Islam, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429425165.

(2021) (Avec Frédéric Vairel) Youth movements, youth in movements: cycles overlap and discontinuities after the February 20^th movement in Morocco, Globalizations. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2021.1992572.

(2022) (Avec Ashley Mayer-Thibault) Transgressions étudiantes et conflits de proximité dans le quartier montréalais de Milton-Parc, Recherches sociographiques, 63(3), p.467-492. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2021.1992572.