“…More recently, when Karl van Meter entrusted the journal to us and we refocused the editorial project on the reflexive narration of research experiences, we approached Nonna Mayer and Samy Cohen, who run a seminar at Sciences Po with a similar ambition. Together we created a section named after this seminar – ‘Social sciences in question’ – in which so far half a dozen articles have been published (Baczko, Dorronsoro and Quesnay, 2021; Cohen and Mayer, 2019; Coppedge et al, 2019; Fourment, 2019; de Maillard, 2019; Offerlé, 2019). A new article in this section, by Benjamin Tainturier, Charles de Dampierre and Dominique Cardon, also appears in this issue.…”