Djaouida Lassel

Djaouida Lassel is an Algerian sociologist specializing in women’s and gender studies in the MENA region. She obtained her PhD in 2018 from Aix-Marseille University. Originally trained in agricultural economics, she also holds university degrees in cultural sociology and international management. Djaouida Lassel is an associate researcher at the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (IRMC) in Tunisia and has received several international fellowships and awards.

The project

Title: Savoirs en mouvement : trajectoires de chercheuses féministes algériennes en France

This mobility project focuses on feminist scholarship and the trajectories of women researchers who have pursued their academic careers in France. It aims at documenting these trajectories and analyzing how this mobility has reshaped their scholarly practices, academic networks, and intellectual positions. By combining in-depth biographical interviews with rigorous archival research, the project examines the conditions under which feminist knowledge is reconfigured throughout these trajectories, through processes of rupture, continuity, and reinvention.

It also explores the dynamics of intergenerational transmission and the forms of collective memory that emerge from these individual trajectories. This three-month mobility period will enable the development of an original corpus, the preparation of a research article, and the dissemination of the findings through research seminars.

Hosting institution: Centre méditerranéen de sociologie, de science politique et d’histoire (MESOPOLHIS)

Selective Bibliography

• 2025 : Lassel Djaouida, « Les agricultrices face au confinement sanitaire : stratégies d’adaptation et Solidarités en France et en Algérie », L’Année du Maghreb, 34
• 2022 : Lassel Djaouida, « Le hirak, un facteur d’empowerment pour les femmes en Algérie », EDAAT Journal, Université Tamanrasset, Algérie, pp.200-220
• 2020 : Lassel Djaouida, « Hirak 2019, A New Year of Struggle for Algerian Feminists », Al-Raida, pp.38-48
• 2019: Lassel Djaouida, « Les Algériennes au centre des réformes politiques », in Karima Dirèche (dir.), L’Algérie au présent, Entre résistances et changements, Paris, IRMC-Karthala,  pp.398-406
• 2013 : Lassel Djaouida, « L’Algérie au temps des Femmes: Le deuxième sexe au centre des réformes politiques », La lettre de L’IRMC, 12