MAKAREMI Chowra, Anthropologie des luttes, Délibérée, 2025/1 N° 24, 2025. p.67-75.

Abstract Chowra Makaremi is an anthropologist at the CNRS and the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), film-maker and author. Her work focuses on the Iranian revolution of 1979, as well as social and political mobilizations in Iran up to the present day. Her short film "Hitch, une histoire iranienne" reveals that shortly after her birth, her mother, an opponent of the regime, was arrested during a demonstration and imprisoned for several years before being murdered along with several thousand other people.

In her latest book Femme! Vie! Liberté ! published by La Découverte in 2023, she chronicles the Iranian revolution of 2022 with the aim of “keeping track of micro-events”. Her involvement with l'Association nationale d'assistance aux frontières pour les étrangers (ANAFÉ)
in the early 2000s, when she was a student, led her to write a thesis on the confinement of migrants in airport waiting zones, and to begin looking at the state from its margins. She has also studied the immediate appearance procedure, which she describes as “a penal response to a political and social issue: regulating marginal populations”. Her reflections question the paradox of the parallel increase in legal victories and the increase in violations of rights. They also build bridges between movements such as the women's movement in Iran, the uprisings of the black population in the United States and those in the suburbs of France. Above all, they open up perspectives, in particular through the emancipatory prism for all of feminist struggles. Could this be the light at the end of the tunnel?

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