Bérengère Marques-pereira

Biography

Bérengère Marques-Pereira is a graduate of the ULB in Political Science and International Relations (1976). Since 1979, she has been an assistant to the Faculty of Social, Political and Economic Sciences, and in 1986 she has supported her doctoral thesis. She has assumed various teaching duties since 1988 and is an ordinary professor until September 2011. She has been a professor at the University since October 2011. She was co-director and then director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the Institute of Sociology between 1990 and 1999. She then became Director of the Center for Political Sociology, where she also headed the Latin American Studies Group. GELA-IS), until September 2011. It assumes during this period the publication of the Cahiers of the CELA, then of the Cahiers of the GELA-IS. She is now part of the METICES group of the Institute of Sociology. She teaches at Universities in Laval (1990 and 2003), University of Brasilia (1991), Institute of Political Studies (IEP) of Paris (1995 and 1996), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (1996), Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano in Santiago de Chile (1999), IEP in Aix-en-Provence (2004), University of Montreal Light Lyon II (2008). She is a member of the Belgian Association of Political Science of the French Community, of which she was successively vice-president (1997-2000) and president (2001-2004). She is co-coordinator of the ABSP "Gender and Politics" group which she founded when she assumed the presidency of this association. She was also a member of the group "State and social relations of sex" in Paris. She is the author of numerous publications on women's social and political citizenship in Latin America and Western Europe (see downloadable resume in this section). Since June 2012, she is president of the University of Women, a continuing education association, in Brussels.

Research Interest

Her scientific project is concerned with the issue of citizenship. This is being studied within the framework of democratic regimes and their changes in the light of new modes of governance in countries of Western Europe and Latin America. Her work, therefore, focuses on the diversification of the places of political action and the forms of political action manifested in the transformations of citizenship. These transformations are viewed from a perspective of historical sociology of politics, comparative politics and political studies of gender. A first section focuses on Latin American policy from a diachronic and synchronic perspective of the political regimes of this region. A second component is the transnationalization of women's movements and gender policies. Insofar as it allows more than ever a cross-fertilization between Europe and Latin America, a third part deals with its repercussions on the political citizenship of women on the basis of social representations linked to individuation and motherhood . These components are developed on the basis of case studies, comparisons by contextual contrasts and an approach of historical sociology of politics. individuation and maternalism. These components are developed on the basis of case studies, comparisons by contextual contrasts and an approach of historical sociology of politics. individuation and maternalism. These components are developed on the basis of case studies, comparisons by contextual contrasts and an approach of historical sociology of politics.