Methodological and epistemological challenges in a study of « counter-revolutionaries »: defensive stances and moral justifications of local members of the National Congress Party (Sudan) – with Lucie Revilla

The LIVE-AR team is pleased to announce the fourth session of the monthly seminar series « Militant Pathways and Political Crises« . It will take place on January 9th 2024, from 2pm to 4pm (Paris time). Our speaker will be Lucie Revilla (CR CNRS, IMAF), who will present a lecture (in French) entitled « Methodological and epistemological challenges in a study of « counter-revolutionaries »: defensive stances and moral justifications of local members of the National Congress Party (Sudan)« .

It will take place at CEPED at the Paris Cité University, campus Saint-Germain and also via Zoom, and in French only.

Session summary

In this lecture, Lucie Revilla will discuss the methodological and epistemological issues she faces following the fall of Omar al Bashir’s regime in April 2019. How did her interlocutors, members of the National Congress party at neighbourhood level, position themselves between the start of the revolution in December 2018 and the attempts to dismantle their party in September 2019? She will look at the ‘self-work’ produced in this context and the social repositioning achieved. The speaker will also draw on the observation of controversies at neighbourhood level and the dynamics of categorisation at work, in order to define who is and who is not koz-a, local personifications of the Ingaz regime.