Hélène Hatzfeld is a

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. She has published books on topics including social science methodology, the evolution of

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, innovations in the city of

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from the 1960s through the 1980s, and the

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of leftist parties and

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s in the 1970s. Hatzfeld's research has been cited, or she has been interviewed, in media outlets including

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, ''Paris-Normandie'' ( Fr).

Career

Hatzfeld is from

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. She attended

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, where she graduated with a doctorate in

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in 1987. Her thesis was entitled ''Les relations entre le Parti socialiste, la CFDT et le mouvement social de 1971 à 1981'', and was supervised by Georges Lavau ( Fr). Since 1991, Hatzfeld has lectured at Sciences Po. From 1994 to 2007, Hatzfeld was also a professor of the Human and Social Sciences at the Lyon University of Architecture ( Fr). She has also held positions at the

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and the

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. Hatzfeld has studied the evolution of the function and legitimacy of different types of social work, and in 1998 she published the book ''Construire de nouvelles légitimités en travail social'' which studies the role of social workers classified as level 3 social workers. In 2000, Hatzfeld and Jackie Spiegelstein published a book on observational methodology in social sciences, called ''Méthodologie de l'observation sociale''. Hatzfeld was also the editor of a book in 2000, called ''Banlieues, villes de demain: Vaulx-en-Velin au-delà de l'image'', which is a collection of essays by architecture students on ideas for urban architecture. Hatzfeld has focused much of her research on the political history of the 1970s, especially conceptions of democracy and politics as expressed by leftist parties, political associations, and new

s. She analysed under-discussed political lessons of social movements in the 1970s in the 2005 book ''Faire de la politique autrement. Les expériences inachevées des années 1970'', and published a 2018 book on innovative developments in Louviers during the period from 1965 to 1983.

Selected works

* ''Construire de nouvelles légitimités en travail social'', Éditions Dunod ( Fr) (1998) * ''Méthodologie de l'observation sociale'', Éditions Dunod, with Jackie Spiegelstein (2000) * ''Banlieues, villes de demain: Vaulx-en-Velin au-delà de l'image'', Éditions du CERTU (2000) * ''Faire de la politique autrement. Les expériences inachevées des années 1970'', Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2005) * ''Les légitimités ordinaires: au nom de quoi devrions-nous nous taire?'', Paris, L'Harmattan (2011) * ''La politique à la ville. Inventions citoyennes à Louviers (1965-1983)'', Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2018)

References

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