Ratiba Hadj-Moussa

Ratiba Hadj-Moussa

Professor of Sociology, University of York

Ratiba Hadj-Moussa is a sociologist of culture and politics. She is a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University in Toronto.

She was Director of the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminism and Women’s Studies and Senior Researcher at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (U. Linz in Vienna). She has been a guest researcher at the Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Muslim Worlds and at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Research on Social Issues of the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Professor Hadj-Moussa was a guest professor at the Constance International Summer School for Literary Studies, the University of Constance (Germany), and the Roger Odin Chair, at Sorbonne Nouvelle Université (Paris III).

Her interests lie at the crossroads of three major areas of research: media landscapes and visual culture, mainly new media and cinema, everyday experience and memory, and marginalized forms of protest as expressions of the political.

Expertise

The Ordinary and the Political

The Public Sphere in the Maghreb

Youth, Gender, and Politics

New Media and Cinema

Visual Culture, Social Justice and the Peripheries

Everyday Experience and Memory

Publications

Hadj-Moussa R. The Public Sphere and Satellite Television in North Africa: Gender, Identity, Critique. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 203 pgs, 2018./ La télévision par satellite et ses publics au Maghreb: espaces de résistance, espaces critiques, P.U de Grenoble, 305 pgs, 2015.]

Hadj-Moussa R. (Ed.), Terrains difficiles. Sujets sensibles : Faire de la recherche au Maghreb sur le Moyen Orient, Les Éditions Du Croquant, Paris, 217 pgs, 2019.

Hadj-Moussa, R. Fragilité de la recherche : Morale, tabous, police et politique. Introduction, in R. Hadj- Moussa (Ed.), Terrains difficiles. Sujets sensibles : Faire de la recherche au Maghreb sur le Moyen Orient. Les Éditions du Croquant, Paris, 9- 23, 14 pgs, 2019.

Hadj-Moussa, R. Les protestations populaires au Mzab : Les heurts intercommunautaires au miroir de la génération politique, in A. Kadri (Ed.), Algérie, décennie 2010-2020. Aux origines du mouvement populaire du 22 Février 2020. Paris, le Croquant, 184-241, 2020, 56 pgs.

Hadj-Moussa, R. Région et génération : le Sud algérien et les enjeux de la visibilisation du politique, L’Année du Maghreb, (L’actualité politique du Maghreb entre logiques autoritaires et dynamiques contestataires, 2 (21), 165-179, 2019, 14 pgs.

Hadj-Moussa R., Youth and Activism in Algeria. The Question of Political Generations, The Journal of North African Studies, 26 pgs, 2019 DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2019.1665289.