Floriane is a PhD Candidate at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She holds a bachelor in History and Political Science and an MA in Political science, from this same university. Her doctoral research focuses on women involved in Christian militias during the Lebanese war and their trajectory after the war. Through a qualitative approach, she seeks to understand the “militant careers” of those women and the consequences of militancy. Hence, this research is questioning the forms of social mobility during and after the war. Floriane is a PhD Candidate at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She holds a bachelor in History and Political Science and an MA in Political science, from this same university. Her doctoral research focuses on women involved in Christian militias during the Lebanese war and their trajectory after the war. Through a qualitative approach, she seeks to understand the “militant careers” of those women and the consequences of militancy. Hence, this research is questioning the forms of social mobility during and after the war.

Research Project

Women at war, women in the war order.
Long-term trajectories of ordinary women engaged in the Phalanges and Lebanese Forces during the Lebanese war (1975-1990)

This research focuses on the life trajectories of women involved in the Kataeb and Lebanese Forces during the Lebanese war (1975-1990). Studying the “militiant careers” and the “pathways to accumulation” of former militia women is a way to approach the production of social differentiations and mobilities in the war and post-war period. On a methodological note, this research is based on a microscopic study. This in-depth analysis of a limited number of cases allows me to study the role that these women negotiate during and after the war, in the embedded economic, kinship, religious and political networks in which they operate. Hence, my research aims at bringing focus to individuals’ navigation and trajectories in a recomposing socio-political order.