Fields of Expertise
Biography
Martin Grandjean is a junior lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Lausanne and the EPFL. He is currently visiting scholar at Aalborg University in Copenhagen.
Bibliography
- GRANDJEAN Martin "Les réseaux de la coopération intellectuelle. La Société des Nations comme actrice des échanges scientifiques et culturel dans l'entre-deux-guerres", Université de Lausanne, 2018, 600 p.
Cette thèse s’attache en particulier à comprendre la structuration du champ puis le développement d’une forme de bureaucratisation de la coordination scientifique et intellectuelle. Renversant la démarche consistant à faire une étude des organisations internationales par leur discours ou à ne se focaliser que sur les personnalités les plus marquantes de l’institution, elle propose d’analyser l’activité et la capacité de la CICI à créer du lien au travers d’une indexation fine de ses archives de correspondance. En cartographiant ainsi la circulation de l’information dans un réseau impliquant plus de 3 000 individus concernés par les activités de la coopération intellectuelle pendant ses premières années (1919-1927), cette recherche fait émerger les principales tendances organisationnelles tout en mettant en évidence la situation d’acteurs jusqu’ici peu étudiés dans ce contexte
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- GRANDJEAN Martin "Analisi e visualizzazioni delle reti in storia. L'esempio della cooperazione intellettuale della Società delle Nazioni" Memoria e Ricerca, 2 2017, 371-393.
Confronted with the massification of data and embracing ever more global questions, the history of international organizations is concerned with increasingly complex objects. And if the term "network" is widely used in historical research, it is because it seems to be effective to describe these tangled, evolutionary and multi-level structures. Based on an analysis of tens of thousands ofarchival documents of the League of Nations’ "Intellectual Cooperation" in the 1920s, this article questions the value of formal network analysis and data visualization as an exploratory tool. From the network used as a metaphor to the complex network of archival metadata, through the network drawn on the basis ofinformations found in heterogeneous sources and the network extractedfrom thecontents of the documents themselves, this article establishes a typology describing four levels of formalization and shows how these levels can be articulated.
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- GRANDJEAN Martin “La connaissance est un réseau: perspective sur l’organisation archivistique et encyclopédique“ Les Cahiers du Numérique, 10/3 2014, 37-54.
Network analysis is not revolutionizing our objects of study, it revolutionizes the perspective of the researcher on the latter. Organized as a network, information becomes relational. It makes potentially possible the creation of new information, as with an encyclopedia which links between records weave a web which can be analyzed in terms of structural characteristics or with an archive directory which sees its hierarchy fundamentally altered by an index recomposing the information exchange network within a group of people. On the basis of two examples of management, conservation and knowledge enhancement tools, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the archives of the Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations, this paper discusses the relationship between the researcher and its object understood as a whole.
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