Janie Pelabay
Janie Pélabay is an FNSP Research Fellow at the CEVIPOF. Philosopher by training, she defended her PhD thesis on the transformations of political liberalism through a comparison between Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor in 2004 at the Université Paris-Sorbonne. She spent one year working on her thesis at the Université de Montréal (CEETUM), before embarking on a postdoctoral career at Oxford University (as a Deakin Visiting Fellow), at the Université libre de Bruxelles (as a Marie Curie Fellow, and subsequently as a member of the RECON Integrated Project) and at the Université du Luxembourg, where she extended her research on the quest for “unity in diversity” by applying it to European integration and the EU.
She joined the CEVIPOF in 2010 as an FNSP Research Fellow where she continues her research on the contemporary challenges posed by pluralist integration. She works on both the theoretical issues (Charles Taylor, penseur de la pluralité, PUL, 2001; with A. Escudier, an anthology on Liberal Perfectionism, Hermann, 2016) and the practical issues relating to civic education as well as immigration and integration policies.
Several of her publications focus on the political uses of "common values", notably within French policies such as integration contracts (with M. Hachimi Alaoui, REMI, 2020) and naturalisation (with E. Fargues and R. Sénac, JEMS, 2023). She also edited (with F. Tarragoni, M. Boussahba-Bravard and R. Sénac) a book entitled Les Frontières de la citoyenneté; (PUR, 2024).
She is a member of the permanent faculty at Sciences Po where she lectures on political philosophy in connection with her research areas.
Research Fields
Theory of democracy, european politic issues, nations and nationalisms, political philosophy of the State
