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SummaryThe extent of mobilization caused by the epidemy of AIDS was underlined many times. Because of a logic of selective dissemination, infection by HIV not only started action of patients and their close relations, but also that of the two most affected social groups : homosexual men and drug users. Existing since almost a century, the collectives of patients have shown various configurations, from consensual groups which developped in the thirties to protestor groups emerging within the seventies. We show here how both in AIDS and drug addiction, the collectives of users multiplied through differentiated public identification choices. In the fight against AIDS, all the forms of mobilization coexist. Concerning drugs usage, actions are less diversified and divide in two main categories: groups of interest and self-help groups.
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AbstractThis article deals with institutionalism in the study of contentious politics. We distinguish between an old institutionalism that stresses above all the role of political institutions and of institutional opportunities (access to the political system, configuration of power, strategies of the authorities, etc.), on the one hand, and a new institutionalism that intends to reintroduce the notion of culture as well as the discursive aspects of political opportunities, on the other. Neo-institutionalism thus allows us to combine political-institutional and cultural factors in the study of contentious politics. A brief example concerning the political mobilization of migrants illustrates the advantages of this approach and of its methodological corollary which is political claims analysis.
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This article aims to renew the questioning of Egyptian civil society by proposing an approach that could question the paradoxes of the classic debate on this issue. This approach is based on the distinction between civil society as a series of actions for social and political players and civil society as a concept formulated by scientists. The text demonstrates that the renewal of the concept of civil society proposed by Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato can be useful to understand the process of empowerment of civil society in Egypt in recent years. The text focuses on the recovery of the historic itinerary of the notion of civil society in Egypt after the revolution of January 25, 2011, with the ongoing debate on the issue of “civility” of the Egyptian state and its relationship with religion and the military institution. The last part of the article notes however that the distinction between the two forms of discourses on civil society is difficult to operate. The struggles around the definitions of civil society within the scientific community are of such intensity that they harm any minimal scientific consensus on this notion.