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Program1.30-2.00pm - Welcome address and opening remarks     2.00-3.00pm -  Keynote 1 - Gary Gerstle    Democracy and Money in America, 1840-1940    Session 1 -&#160;Thursday 20 September 2012 - 3.00-4.30pmA. Early Democracy: Multiple meanings, conflicting practicesGrand amphi - Chair Johann Neem     Peter Gurney - The Democratic idiom: Languages of democracy in Britain, 1830-1848&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;     Mark Philp - Between word and deed: Languages of democracy/practices of participation: England from 1789-1850    Reeve Huston - Rethinking 1828: The emergence of competing democracies in the United StatesB. Twists &#38; Turns of DemocracyPetit amphi - Chair Myriam Boussabah-Bravard    Andrew Robertson - Democracy: America's other Peculiar Institution    Claire Ceruti - Cycles of contestation: The maturing contradictions in the Zuma movement in South Africa    Yann Beliard - The forward march of Labour in Kingston-upon-Hull (1884-1939): a tortuous and ambivalent breakthrough     Session 2 - Thursday 20 September 2012 - 5.00-6.30pm C. Critical Perspectives on Free Market Democracy Grand amphi&#160; - Chair Martine Azuelos     Scott Fitzgerald - Movements, policy and protest: Challenging economic inequality in the US and the UK&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;     Pierre Guerlain - Democracy Inc. in the US    Jean-Baptiste Velut - Toward a new progressive era? Reformist and radical forms of advocacy in the age of plutocracyD. Activists across BordersPetit amphi - Chair Yann Beliard    Yohanna Alimi -  Weaving a transatlantic feminist network: The impact of the French  revolution of 1848 on the American contest for women's rights    Daniel Prosterman - Global democratic visions: Electoral reform activism in the early twentieth century    Jim Cohen - Defending the rights of undocumented immigrants and contesting the boundaries of national citizenship in the US     Session 3 - Friday 21 September 2012 - 9.00-10.30am E. Who Governs?/Who Participates?Grand amphi - Chair Pauline Schnapper    David F&#233;e - Planning for housing in the UK: The contradictions of democracy    Houari Mired  - Democratic renewal in the English regions since 1994. Why is  governance (still) contested?  &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;     Coralie Rafenne - Multi-level governance, managerial ideology and the myth of citizen participation in the EUF. Democracy at WorkPetit amphi - Chair Evelyne Payen    Christine Zumello - Crafted democracy in the USA? 'Vote, invest&#160; and express yourself'    Sheena Raja - A faux-public sphere: marketing online conversation economies for citizen consumers     Jean-Christian Vinel - The Right-to-Work: The American Right and the struggle against industrial democracy, 1941-1958    11.00-12.00pm - Keynote 2 - Paul Bagguley    Crisis, Democracy, Protest: reflections on the British case     SESSION 4 - Friday 21 September 2012 - 2.00-3.30pm G. Alternative Spaces of Public ExpressionGrand amphi - Chair Divina Frau-Meigs    Guillaume Marche - Local democracy and contested public space: San Francisco and the politics of graffiti &#160;&#160;     Emmanuelle Avril - Social networks and democracy in the English-speaking world: Counterculture or mainstream?    Andrew Perrin - Letters to the Editor: Demographic and cultural contours of a mediated public sphereH. Vested Interest DemocracyPetit amphi - Chair Romain Garbaye    Daniel Carpenter - Anxieties  of Soliciting Empire: Transformations of the Petition  across Languages  and Peoples in the Saint Lawrence Valley and the Gulf  of Maine,  1740-1840    Romain Huret - No representation without taxation! Businessmen against federal taxation from the Progressive Era to the New Deal    Marie-Claire Consid&#232;re-Charon - Identifying a democratic deficit in Ireland: Focus on institutional and constitutional issuesSession 5 - Friday 21 September 2012 - 4.00-5.30pm I. Productive ProtestGrand amphi - Chair H&#233;l&#232;ne Le Dantec    Sandrine Tolazzi - Channeling indigenous contestation of uranium mining in Australia: Legislation, negotiation, co-optation        Pauline Peretz - Common cause: A democratic organization of distrust vis-&#224;-vis the State in post civil rights America     Sarah Pickard - Productive protest? The contested higher education reforms in England (2010-2012)     J. Leaders &#38; Citizens Petit amphi - Chair Fabrice Bensimon    Joanna Innes - Democracy and demagoguery in the British Isles, 1700-1850    Daniel Foliard - The lion of Nineveh: Henry Layard, radicalism and the reflections of fallen Empires    Paul Blokker - A comparative engagement with dissent and constitutionalism     Session 6 - Saturday 22 September 2012 - 9.30-11.00amK. Representative vs Direct DemocracyGrand amphi - Chair Emmanuelle Avril    Geoffrey Pleyers  -&#160; Contesting or complementing representative democracy? Experiments  and tensions in the alter-globalization and indignados/occupiers  movements&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;     Jacques-Henri Coste  - The contested terrains of digital democracy, open source innovation,  and intellectual property in the US:&#160; The PIPA and SOPA Case    Isabelle Sinic-Bouhaoula - Conservatism and direct democracy in California: Questioning the legacy of progressivism     L. Creative Destruction? Petit amphi - Chair Christine Zumello     Gary Anderson, Geoff Bright,Gillian Whiteley- `What rough beast...? Monstrous practices of dissent and the ends of conviviality    Christos Efstathiou - The ideological roots of the Battle of Cable Street      Val&#233;rie Peyronel - The 1998 Agreement and its consequences: contested democracy in post-conflict Northern Ireland    11.30-12.30pm - Keynote 3 - Jennifer Lees-Marshment    Partners not protesters? Managing contests to traditional democracy through expanded public input into political decision making&#160;Closing remarksAdding informations    Conference papers will be given in English / Les communications seront en anglais         Registration fee :&#160; 20 euros payable by French cheque or by cash, free for students&#160;&#160;        To download the registration form for delegates go to conference webpage.        To register or obtain further information please send an email to: Contested-democracy@univ-paris3.fr Speakers / Intervenants    Yohanna Alimi, PhD student, Teaching Fellow, American   Studies, Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA4399), France &#160;    Dr Gary Anderson, Lecturer in Contemporary Performance, Free University of Liverpool / Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, UK    Professor   Emmanuelle Avril, British Studies, Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW   - EA4399), France&#160;         Dr Yann B&#233;liard, British Studies, Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW   - EA4399), France    Dr Paul Blokker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of   Sociology, University of Trento, Italy     Geoff Bright, Researcher, Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK    Professor Daniel Carpenter, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard   University, USA    Claire Ceruti, PhD student, University of Johannesburg,   associated with the South African Research Chair in Social Change, SA    Professor Jim   Cohen, American Studies, Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA4399), France       Professor   Emeritus, Marie-Claire Consid&#232;re-Charon, British and Irish   Studies, Universit&#233; de Franche-Comt&#233;, France        Dr   Jacques-Henri Coste, Associate Professor, American Studies,   Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA4399), France     Christos Efstathiou, PhD student, Department of History,   Classics &#38; Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London , UK     Dr David F&#233;e, Senior Lecturer,   British Studies, Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA4399), France &#160;    Dr Scott T. Fitzgerald, Associate Professor of Sociology,   Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA    Dr Daniel Foliard, Postdoctorate Researcher and Sessional   Lecturer in History, Paris-Sorbonne University, France    Professor   Pierre Guerlain, American Studies, Universit&#233; Paris Ouest&#160; La D&#233;fense, (CREA - EA370), France    Dr Peter Gurney, Senior&#160;   Lecturer, Department of History, University of Essex, UK    Dr Romain Huret, Associate Professor, American Studies,   University of Lyon 2 / Institut&#160; Universitaire   de France, (Cena, IUF), France    Dr Reeve Huston, Associate Professor, Department of   History, Duke University, USA    Joanna Innes, MA, Fellow and Tutor&#160; in Modern History, Somerville College,   University of Oxford, UK    Dr Guillaume   Marche, Associate Professor, American Studies, Universit&#233; Paris-Est Cr&#233;teil, (IMAGER   - EA3958), France &#160;    Dr Houari Mired, Teaching Fellow, British Studies,   Universit&#233; Paris Est Cr&#233;teil, France    Dr Pauline   Peretz, Assistant Professor, History, Universit&#233; de Nantes, Researcher, Centre   d'&#233;tudes nord-am&#233;ricaines &#160;(Cena / EHESS),   France    Dr Andrew J. Perrin, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,   University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA    Professor Val&#233;rie Peyronel, British and Irish Studies, Universit&#233;   Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA4399), France &#160;    Dr Mark Philp, Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Oriel   College, University of Oxford, UK    Dr Sarah   Pickard, Senior Lecturer, British Studies, Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW -   EA4399), France    Dr Geoffrey Pleyers, Research Associate, Sociology, FNRS and   UCL, (CADIS-EHESS), Belgium     Dr Daniel O. Prosterman, Assistant Professor, History, Salem   College, USA    Dr Coralie   Raffenne, Senior Lecturer, British Studies Universit&#233; d'Orl&#233;ans, France    Sheena Raja,   PhD student, Media Studies, Rutgers   University, USA, Intern, UN Department of   Economic and Social Affairs, USA.    Professor Andrew W. Robertson, Deputy Executive Officer, History Ph.D.   Program, The CUNY Graduate Center , USA     Dr Isabelle   Sinic-Bouhaouala, American Studies, Researcher, Universit&#233; Sorbonne   Nouvelle, (CREW - EA4399), France &#160;    Dr Sandrine   Tolazzi, Associate Professor, Anglophone Studies, Universit&#233; Stendhal-Grenoble   3, (CEMRA - EA3016), France    Dr   Jean-Baptiste Velut, Associate Professor, American Studies,   Universit&#233; Paris Est Marne La Vall&#233;e, (CREW - EA4399), France    Dr Jean-Christian Vinel, Associate Professor, American Studies, Universit&#233; Paris Diderot,   France    Dr Gillian Whiteley, Senior Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies, Loughborough University, UK    Dr Christine   Zumello, Associate Professor, American Studies, Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle,   Paris, (CREW - EA4399), FranceConference organisers: / Comit&#233; d'organisation :     Yohanna Alimi (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW OPA),         Emmanuelle Avril (Sorbonne-Nouvelle, CREW Axe 1),         Yann B&#233;liard (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW Axe 3),         Jacques-Henri Coste (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW CERVEPAS),         Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW Axe 2),         Romain Garbaye (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW Axe 3),         H&#233;l&#232;ne Le Dantec (Sorbonne ouvelle, CREW CRAN),         Anne-Claire L&#233;vy (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW OPA),         Val&#233;rie Peyronel (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW CERVEPAS),         Sarah Pickard (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW CREC),         Naomi Wulf (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW OPA). Scientific Committee: / Comit&#233; scientifique :    Emmanuelle Avril (Sorbonne-Nouvelle, CREW Axe 1),         Paul Bagguley (Leeds University, UK),         Yann B&#233;liard (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW Axe 3),         Jacques-Henri Coste (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW CERVEPAS),         Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW Axe 2),         Romain Garbaye (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW Axe 3),         H&#233;l&#232;ne Le Dantec (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW CRAN),         Johann Neem (Western Washington University, USA),         Val&#233;rie Peyronel (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW CERVEPAS),         Sarah Pickard (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW CREC),         Andrew Robertson (Graduate Center, CUNY, USA),         Naomi Wulf (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW OPA).  PresentationThe   dissent and uprisings that spread through the Arab world during  the  Spring of 2011 occurred almost a quarter of a century after the fall  of  East European political r&#233;gimes that saw the rise of &#34;democracy&#34;   modeled on the Anglo-American representative system. This specific   context which has come to characterize the past quarter of century calls   for a renewed analysis of the models these political systems represent   and of the processes that triggered them and led to their long-term   establishment in the UK and the US.Since the 1990s, as a response to the   story of the inevitable emergence of democracy in the aftermath of the   Cold War, researchers on North American politics have provided an   alternative reading of events: that of a &#34;contested democracy&#34;. The CREW   Paris-based research group is organising an international conference  in  order to reflect on the notion of&#160; &#34;contested democracy&#34; and its  role in  understanding democracy as theory and practice. In inviting a  critical  evaluation of this now commonly used phrase, the conference  wishes to  open up a wide-range of approaches and discourses relating to  democracy  in the English-speaking world, from individual expression to  collective  action, from infra-political practices to more explicit  forms of dissent,  from within political organisations or large-scale  social movements, and  including local democracy and debates on  community-building and social  cohesion. This conference is aimed at  specialists on the Anglo-American  world (and beyond, on the  English-speaking world) who are interested in  these questions from  either an historical or contemporary perspective.  The purpose of this  conference is to encourage comparative analysis on  participation,  contest and contestation, as well as on phenomena such as  adaptation  and self-appropriation which characterize the exchange  and transfer of  ideas that can be observed in the different national  contexts of the  English-speaking world.When   popularising the notion of &#34;contested democracy&#34;, historians and   political scientists have underlined how democratic progress andthe   resulting democratic structures of the UK and US were borne of  fiercely  fought battles. Democracy's establishment has been the result of  a  jerky evolution beset by setbacks and victories, rather than a smooth   and incremental evolution towards a presumed endpoint. The emphasis has   thus been laid on the pluralism of a liberal system where successive   claims and demands from the&#34;excluded&#34; within civil society have   highlighted their rights to be included and to participate. Whilst   this is the main meaning of the phrase &#34;contested democracy&#34;, this   conference seeks also to reflect more widely on how contestation has  been  expressed and continues to be articulated within a dominant  political  model. Beyond the classic expressions of contestation  anddissent, such  as demonstrations, revolutions and civil disobedience,  there are many  other forms emanating from the public realm and from  civil society as  awhole, which aim to reinvent the very notion of  democracy. The area of  studyfor the conference need not be limited to  the traditional  opposition between&#34;the street &#34; and &#34;the rulers&#34;,  although the events of  the Arab Spring clearly invite us to rethink  this relationship. It would  also beinteresting to deal with attempts  made by political regimes to  preempt contestor contestation via  consultative mechanisms or local  partnerships, as was thecase for  example in the UK during the New Labour  governments. Furthermore,  therealm of private contestation can include  the business world and  alternative participation made accessible by  digital communication. By  definition, thenotion of &#34;contested democracy&#34;  also invites us to  consider participation and contestation in  conjunction, and to envisage  forms of&#34;counter democracy&#34; (Pierre  Rosanvallon), borne of defiance  towardsso-called democratic structures  yet simultaneously bearing the  risk of endangering the very existence of  the political community. In  this way, depending on the context and the  usage, new technologies and  the new structures with which they are  associated can become either  tools for contestation or instruments for  social cohesion.The   conference aims at providing an overview and assessment of current   research on new and innovative forms of participation in the   English-speaking world, both in the contemporary period and in history,   with an emphasis on alternative and critical approaches to power.      local sphere, civil society     political parties, social movements, associations     communications, networks, new social media     cultural diversity, identity politics and mobilisation     governance, influence of public-private actors      sources of social cohesion in pluralist democratic societies... ArgumentaireUne  vingtaine d'ann&#233;es apr&#232;s la chute des r&#233;gimes en Europe de l'Est et  l'av&#232;nement de la &#171;&#160;d&#233;mocratie&#160;&#187;, o&#249; le mod&#232;le repr&#233;sentatif  anglo-am&#233;ricain en particulier a &#233;t&#233; mis &#224; l'honneur, et alors que les  soul&#232;vements du printemps 2011 se sont multipli&#233;s dans les pays du monde  arabe, nous sommes incit&#233;s &#224; r&#233;fl&#233;chir de mani&#232;re renouvel&#233;e aux  mod&#232;les que repr&#233;sentent ces syst&#232;mes, aux processus qui ont permis leur  mise en &#339;uvre et &#224; ce qui les fait perdurer. Face &#224; l'histoire d'une  d&#233;mocratie in&#233;luctable h&#233;rit&#233;e notamment de la Guerre froide, les  sp&#233;cialistes des Etats-Unis proposent depuis les ann&#233;es 1990 une lecture  alternative, celle d'une &#171;&#160;contested democracy&#160;&#187;. Ce colloque organis&#233;  par l'&#233;quipe CREW (Center for Research on the English-speaking World) de  la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 invite &#224; revenir sur cette notion et ses  implications pour la compr&#233;hension du ph&#233;nom&#232;ne d&#233;mocratique et,  partant, sur l'ensemble des approches et d&#233;bats qui traversent le monde  anglophone, autour des actions ou des prises de parole individuelles  comme collectives, de l'infra-politique aux mouvements contestataires,  en passant par la d&#233;mocratie locale et les d&#233;bats sur la communaut&#233; et  la coh&#233;sion sociale. Il s'adresse aux sp&#233;cialistes du monde  anglo-am&#233;ricain, et plus g&#233;n&#233;ralement du monde anglophone, qui  s'int&#233;ressent &#224; ces questions dans leur dimension historique et plus  contemporaine. Il vise &#224; encourager une r&#233;flexion comparative sur la  participation et la contestation, ainsi que sur les ph&#233;nom&#232;nes de  traduction et de r&#233;appropriation qui caract&#233;risent les &#233;changes et les  transferts d'id&#233;es que l'on observe entre les diff&#233;rents contextes  nationaux de l'espace anglophone.En popularisant la notion de &#171;&#160;contested democracy&#160;&#187;,  les historiens et politologues ont cherch&#233; &#224; faire valoir non plus la  lin&#233;arit&#233; d'un suppos&#233; progr&#232;s d&#233;mocratique, mais plut&#244;t la mani&#232;re dont  ce syst&#232;me loin d'&#234;tre une donn&#233;e de d&#233;part, est la r&#233;sultante de  combats, souvent acharn&#233;s, celle d'une histoire par &#224;-coups, faite de  revers et de victoires. L'accent est mis de fait, avec Habermas, sur le  pluralisme d'un syst&#232;me lib&#233;ral o&#249; les revendications successives  provenant des &#171;&#160;exclus&#160;&#187;, ceux qui, au sein de la soci&#233;t&#233; civile font  valoir leurs droits &#224; l'inclusion et &#224; la participation. La  &#171;&#160;contestation&#160;&#187;, ici, pris dans le sens de &#171;&#160;contest&#160;&#187;,  soit de comp&#233;tition entre les int&#233;r&#234;ts particuliers, serait donc le  vecteur m&#234;me de la construction d'un syst&#232;me pluraliste qui ne semble  pas remis en question en tant que tel, mais auquel, tour &#224; tour les  individus et groupes viennent se rattacher.Or  si tel est le sens premier de cette expression, elle nous fournit  l'occasion de r&#233;fl&#233;chir plus largement aux formes qu'a prise et continue  de prendre la contestation d'un mod&#232;le politique dominant et qui  n'apporte pas les r&#233;ponses contenues dans ses promesses de d&#233;part. Outre  les contestations classiques, comme la manifestation, la r&#233;volte ou la  d&#233;sob&#233;issance, nous nous int&#233;ressons ici &#224; tous les modes de  participation &#233;manant de la sph&#232;re publique, ou de la soci&#233;t&#233; civile  dans son ensemble, qui visent &#224; r&#233;inventer la notion m&#234;me de d&#233;mocratie.  Le champ d'&#233;tude ne doit pas se limiter &#224; une opposition classique  entre &#171;&#160;la rue&#160;&#187; et le pouvoir, m&#234;me si des &#233;v&#233;nements r&#233;cents peuvent  nous inviter &#224; repenser &#233;galement ce rapport. On s'int&#233;ressera ainsi aux  tentatives des pouvoirs eux-m&#234;mes de secr&#233;ter leurs propres contre-feux  &#224; d'&#233;ventuelles contestations, &#224; travers la mise en place de divers  m&#233;canismes de consultation ou de partenariats locaux, comme cela a &#233;t&#233;  le cas par exemple en Grande-Bretagne, sous les gouvernements New Labour.  La contestation ou la critique de la d&#233;mocratie repr&#233;sentative,  lorsqu'elle &#233;mane du pouvoir lui-m&#234;me, peut parfois se muer en outil de  contr&#244;le de la soci&#233;t&#233; civile. On pourra &#233;tendre l'espace de  contestation aux sph&#232;res priv&#233;e et &#233;conomique, celle notamment de  l'entreprise et du monde des affaires, et aux formes de participation  alternative propos&#233;es par l'acc&#232;s aux nouvelles formes de communication  virtuelle. Par d&#233;finition, la notion de &#171;&#160;contested democracy&#160;&#187;,  nous encourage &#224; ne pas scinder participation et contestation et nous  engage &#224; envisager les formes prises par ce que Pierre Rosanvallon a pu  appeler &#171;&#160;contre-d&#233;mocratie&#160;&#187;, faite de d&#233;fiance vis-&#224;-vis d'un pouvoir  soit disant d&#233;mocratique, dont le revers est de mettre en danger  l'existence m&#234;me de la communaut&#233; qui fonde le politique. Ainsi, les  nouvelles technologies et les nouveaux dispositifs qui leurs sont  associ&#233;s peuvent se penser, selon les contextes et les usages, comme  outils de contestation ou instruments de coh&#233;sion sociale, et sont  envisag&#233;s tant&#244;t comme une remise en cause du mod&#232;le de d&#233;mocratie  repr&#233;sentative, tant&#244;t comme un moyen d'insuffler une vie nouvelle &#224; des  syst&#232;mes d&#233;mocratiques au bord de l'&#233;puisement.L'objet  du colloque est de faire &#233;merger une synth&#232;se de la recherche en cours  sur les formes nouvelles voire innovantes, dans l'actualit&#233; comme dans  l'histoire du monde anglophone, de la participation, dans sa forme  critique du pouvoir et des modes alternatifs de prise de pouvoir, hors  de l'espace qui lui est traditionnellement d&#233;volu.Ces  pistes de r&#233;flexion autour de la d&#233;mocratie en conteste' concernent une  s&#233;rie de th&#233;matiques dans lesquelles pourront s'inscrire les  propositions de communication, selon une perspective tant historique que  contemporaine, sans exclusive&#160;:     espace local, soci&#233;t&#233; civile     partis politiques, mouvements sociaux, mouvements associatifs     communications, r&#233;seaux, nouveaux m&#233;dias, r&#233;seaux sociaux      diversit&#233; culturelle, mobilisations identitaires    gouvernance, influence des acteurs priv&#233;s et publics...    The conference is dedicated to the memory of Professor Naomi Wulf who very sadly passed away in April. She was a driving force behind the conception and organisation of this conference and she is very much missed.