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Université du Havre

Faculty Member, Affaires Internationales

Université Paris Diderot, History

Allocataire-moniteur (2006-2009) at Paris Diderot University

Thesis Title: « Transnational Networks and Political Contention in exile: Historical Sociology of aprista’s parties leaders practices (1920-1960) »

Zacarias Moutoukias

About

I'm social scientist with a PhD in History (Université Paris Diderot).
 
My PhD essay and my articles in the last five years concern with the emergence, and then, the evolution of a transnational network consisted by many of the most important political leaders in Latin American contemporary history. My dissertation topic had a deep personal as well as intellectual significance for me. It was leading by my interest for interdisciplinary research and social history, especially Charles Tilly and E. P Thompson works. It was of intellectual interest beacause it helped me to continue thinking about the place of agency in collective actions, but now with a social, institutional and historical focus. I was also introduced to Elias’s historical sociology, which had greatly influenced my ideas about the evolution of social forms. It was also a time of great excitement about the interdisciplinary turn in the french history, and through my immersion in the social networks analysis, I took part in that as well. 
My historical sociology and my articles tried to explain this network’s way of functioning, distribution and organization, as well as the relational ties of a transnational experience ideologically close to the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA). In the scope of a theoretical reflection about the nature of this transnational political phenomena, I tooked adventage to develop ideas on latin american populism and the role of path-dependency in the emergence of collective actions.

Furthermore, I proposed a reconsideration of methodologies and classical readings on the popular Aprista parties. In this sense, I inted to demonstrate that the embeddeness of political partisan elites close to this trend in networks allowed the creation of an original political and organizational culture between 1924 and 1960. For this, and after examining the implications and the types of interpersonal ties in this network, and especially the influence of this circulation on the political game of the Partido Aprista Peruano and venezuelan Action Democratica, I proposed a modelization of action-set as an interpersonal field where networks and the interaction between the different actors turn out to be central. 


DISCIPLINES: History, Social Sciences (Historical Sociology), Political Science

KEYWORDS: Transnational Networks, Politisation, Action-set, Partido Aprista Peruano, Acción Democrática, Historical Sociology, Populism, Political’s elites, Democracy, Collective Action, Aprista’s Popular Parties

Research support and fellowships

2009 French Foreign Office Fellowship « Cultural area »

2009 French Institut of Americas Fellowship for Ph.D. Candidates


Publications

Books
Les mythes fondateurs du Parti Apriste Péruvien: Socio-histoire de la culture d’un parti politique latino-américain, Paris: IHEAL Editions : 2012

Articles in refereed journals
« Socio-histoire du processus d’institutionnalisation de l’Agrupación Revolucionaria de Izquierdas de Venezuela », Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 4 (6), Spring 2011

« L’A.P.R.A comme Dynamique Transnationale: Du réseau à la fabrication d’un discours nationaliste », Cahiers des Amériques Latine, (66): 111-131, april 2011

« Redes políticas transnacionales y elites políticas partidarias: Sociología Histórica de los lazos entre el Partido Aprista Peruano y el ARDI venezolano (1928-1935) », Historia y Política. Ideas, procesos y movimientos sociales, (23): 219-242, april 2010

« Articulaciones relacionales y redes transnacionales: Acercamiento critico para una nueva historiografía del Aprismo continental », Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, (7) : on line : http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document8682.html, september 2007

« Nacionalismo y utilización política del pasado: La historia nacional desde la perspectiva de la revista Amauta (1926-1930) », Histórica, 30 (2) : 91-114, november 2007

Book Chapters
« La démocratie comme fait institutionnel au Pérou (1980-1992) », In Joëlle Chassin and Denis Rolland (eds.), Pour comprendre le Pérou d’aujourd’hui, Paris: L’Harmattan. Anticipated publication: 2012

« De una hegemonía a otra ? La radicalización de los maoístas frente a la instauración democrática en Perú », in Eugenia Palieraki and Marianne Gonzalez-Aleman (eds.), Revoluciones imaginadas. Itinerarios de la idea revolucionaria en América Latina contemporánea, Santiago de Chile: Ril Editores. Anticipated publication: 2012

« El cierre populista en las ciencias sociales sobre lo político latino-americano : El ejemplo de los partidos populares apristas », in Lucia Majlatova (ed.), El populismo en América Latina, Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux. Anticipated publication: 2012

Reviews
« Gabriel Vommaro, La Carte Rouge de l’Amérique Latine, Broissieux Editions du Croquant, 2008, 197p. », Cahiers des Amériques Latines, (63-64): 260-262, Winter 2011


Contact Information

Homepage:

http://aprismecontinental.typepad.fr/recherche/

Address:

13, rue Manin
75019 Paris

Telephone:

(033) 06 07 25 09 65

 

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