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Long-distance islamist oppositionstunisian and egyptian mobilizations in France (1990-2016)How to mobilize from afar? The study of homeland oppositional politics entails an examination of the set of rules configuring this singular space of mobilization as well as an analysis of the ways organisational structures and frames are renegotiated in a migratory context. By comparing Tunisian and Egyptian Islamist mobilizations in France, this article accounts for the effects of the actors' politico-religious identity on their oppositional political practices. Both anti-Ben Ali activists in the 1990s-2000s and post-2013 anti-Sisi protesters are torn between their ambition to make their claims relevant to the French audience and the need to preserve their group's religious identity.

Mobilizing by emotions, mobilizing emotionsthe case of diethylstilbestrol victims
Studying active victims in public health scandals makes us consider the deep link between this form of collective action and the thematic of emotions. Indeed emotions constitute a reason of taking a part in collective action, and also support the creation of groups of victims. In these groups, individuals realize the extent of the injustice experienced. Emotions then increase a sense of belonging, strengthen the collective identity of the group of victims and their socialization. Emotions can finally influence mobilization. The rhetoric of these victims and their way to publicizing the cause can also integrate these emotions. The analysis is based on the study of the scandal of Diethylstilbestrol (DES) in France.

French sociology and the military issue. An anti-political tradition
The contemporary difficulties of French social sciences to properly grasp military phenomena can be partly construed as legacies of a tradition going back to the emergence of the scientific ambition applied to societies and history. As mix of an aspiration for objective knowledge and ideological developments, the French sociological tradition turned to the military issue, from the early 19th century to 1945, in multiple ways which all share the refusal to consider it as a political issue relatively independent from other dimensions of social life. But a synthetic examination of the most prominent ideas produced by this tradition shows that its relation to politics is more complex, and that one all too easily slips from an apolitical into an anti-political worldview.

Collective wisdom, diversity and misuse of mathematics
The themes of collective wisdom and cognitive advantages of diversity have benefited in recent years from a certain attraction in political theory, particularly in the so-called epistemic democracy movement. One of the main arguments is based on a set of mathematical demonstrations established by Lu Hong and Scott Page. We present these results and show that the models used to establish them are poorly constructed and that results are incorrect from a mathematical point of view. In the end, we point out that, even if the results were well constructed and exact, they would be inapplicable in political theory.

Big Data scientificity conditions in political science
This article offers to complement the debate initiated by Dominique Boullier on the influence of big data in social sciences. While it does not question the idea that analysis of numerical phenomena may require the constitution of a new epistemological approach, the paper exposes a complementary point of view: big data also allow to articulate the different social science epistemological traditions, on condition, firstly, of combining new digital technologies and traditional methods, and secondly of mobilizing the canonical concepts of social sciences to analyze numerical phenomena.