Institute Research Projects

Within the framework of several waves of "Mutations" calls for projects, the SoMuM Institute supports research projects coordinated by laboratories within its perimeter. The 18-month collaborative research projects aim to shed light on the issue of transitions in an exploratory, interdisciplinary and critical manner. The Mediterranean space and its interconnections are considered as fertile ground for experimentation and problematization in order to study the various processes in their historicized context, at the time of emerging changes, turning points, crises or longer periods of transition.

List of projects funded in 2020

• ILLEPORT : Port illegalisms in Marseille. Milestones for a genealogy of the Mediterranean bazaar. Coordination: Xavier Daumalin (TELEMMe), Michel Peraldi (LEST)
• RIVAGE : The wind, the sun and the sea: Perceptions of the body and ordinary uses of the shore in the Mediterranean (late 18th century - 1930s) Coordination: Anne Carol (TELEME)
• UCMS: Usage Conflicts in international marine protected areas in the Mediterranean Coordination: Pascale Ricard (DICE)
• COVID MUTEUROMED : Covid-19 crisis and legal and geopolitical changes in Europe and the Mediterranean Coordination: Walter Bruyère-Ostells (CHERPA)
• VICO-2 : Life in lockdown: from crisis to transition ?Coordination: Claire Bidart (LEST)
• FINCA : Borders, (Im)mobilisations and Neoliberalism in the time of Covid in Agriculture Coordination: Béatrice Mésini (TELEMMe), Frédéric Décosse (LEST)