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Banlieue Boogie Blues - Jacques Higelin
▻https://www.boiteachansons.net/partitions/jacques-higelin/banlieue-boogie-blues
Valeurs éternelles.

Parti de rien comme un vrai zonard
T’as toutes les chances d’arriver nulle part

Dans la chanson il y a une référence à Tataouine qui se trouve en Tunisie alors qu’aujourd’hui on se souvient plutôt de la planète fictive dans la Guerre de Étoiles.

aller à Tataouine [v]
▻https://www.expressio.fr/expressions/aller-a-tataouine

aller très loin ; au bout du monde ; aller en enfer ; aller au bout du monde

Ensuite l’enquête déterre l’histoire remarquable de la victoire improbable d’un soulèvement populaire contre le militaire.

Military Defection During Localized Protests : The Case of Tataouine
▻https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/63/2/259/5438330?login=false

In May 2017, the Tunisian military allowed protesters to storm and shut down an oil valve in Tataouine, in contravention of a direct order from President Essebsi to defend the production site. While scholars have recently examined military defection during mass uprisings, these protests were small and localized. Why did the military disobey President Essebsi in Tataouine? Drawing upon a survey of military officers conducted six months prior to the defection, I show that the military’s composition and corporate interests, rather than its professionalism, likely prompted its defection. The majority of the military hails from impoverished regions in Tunisia’s neglected interior and identifies with the demands of protesters in these regions. The military also saw the curtailment of its material and political interests in early 2017, giving it little incentive to repress protesters on the regime’s behalf. Methodologically, this study provides some of the first survey data of military officers’ attitudes toward defection.

#musique #paroles #banlieu

Synthetic Experiences: How Popular Culture Matters for Images of International Relations
▻https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/61/3/503/4616603

Many researchers assert that popular culture warrants greater attention from international relations scholars. Yet work regarding the effects of popular culture on international relations has so far had a marginal impact. We believe that this gap leads mainstream scholars both to exaggerate the influence of canonical academic sources and to ignore the potentially great influence of popular culture on mass and elite audiences. Drawing on work from other disciplines, including cognitive science and psychology, we propose a theory of how fictional narratives can influence real actors’ behavior. As people read, watch, or otherwise consume fictional narratives, they process those stories as if they were actually witnessing the phenomena those narratives describe, even if those events may be unlikely or impossible. These “synthetic experiences” can change beliefs, reinforce preexisting views, or even displace knowledge gained from other sources for elites as well as mass audiences. Because ideas condition how agents act, we argue that international relations theorists should take seriously how popular culture propagates and shapes ideas about world politics. We demonstrate the plausibility of our theory by examining the influence of the US novelist Tom Clancy on issues such as US relations with the Soviet Union and 9/11.