<doi_batch xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.crossref.org/schema/5.3.1" xmlns:jats="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/JATS1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.crossref.org/schema/5.3.1 https://www.crossref.org/schemas/crossref5.3.1.xsd" version="5.3.1"><head><doi_batch_id>episciences.org_3677_20260525180407556</doi_batch_id><timestamp>20260525180407556</timestamp><depositor><depositor_name>episciences.org</depositor_name><email_address>raphael.tournoy+crossrefapi@ccsd.cnrs.fr</email_address></depositor><registrant>episciences.org</registrant></head><body><journal><journal_metadata language="en"><full_title>Sociétés plurielles</full_title><issn media_type="electronic">2557-9959</issn></journal_metadata><journal_issue><publication_date media_type="online"><month>05</month><day>22</day><year>2017</year></publication_date><journal_volume><volume>Facing the challenge of the...</volume></journal_volume><issue>Articles</issue></journal_issue><journal_article publication_type="full_text" language="fr"><titles><title>Face au non-événement : réflexions à partir d’une expérience de terrain à Alger</title></titles><contributors><person_name sequence="first" contributor_role="author"><given_name>Thomas</given_name><surname>Serres</surname><affiliations><institution><institution_name>University of California [Santa Cruz]</institution_name><institution_id type="ror">https://ror.org/03s65by71</institution_id></institution></affiliations></person_name></contributors><jats:abstract><jats:p xml:lang="en">This article studies the production and the reception of a &amp;quot;non-event&amp;quot; by drawing on the Algerian presidential elections of 2014. It argues that a non-event must be understood as the product of a publicization, of the expectations of the observers and actors who anticipate a revolutionary or catastrophic future, and of social and political routine activities that also contribute to its appearance. While the non-event is not a clear break, it can still be interrogated in order to reveal the social structures and imaginaries that lead to its production. In the meantime, a certain distance from the &amp;quot;non event&amp;quot; is necessary to grasp less spectacular phenomena that it tends to obscure.</jats:p><jats:p xml:lang="fr">Cet article s’intéresse à la production et à la réception d'un non-événement, à partir de l'exemple des élections présidentielles algériennes de 2014. Le non-événement y est décrit comme le produit d'une publicisation, d'attentes des observateurs et des acteurs qui anticipent une trajectoire révolutionnaire ou catastrophique, mais aussi de certaines activités routinières liées à la configuration politique. Si le non-événement n'est pas une rupture, il révèle néanmoins la complexité des structures sociales et des imaginaires collectifs. Dans le même temps, il nécessite aussi une prise de distance afin de pouvoir saisir des phénomènes moins spectaculaires qu'il tend à cacher.</jats:p></jats:abstract><publication_date media_type="online"><month>05</month><day>22</day><year>2017</year></publication_date><acceptance_date media_type="online"><month>05</month><day>22</day><year>2017</year></acceptance_date><publisher_item><item_number item_number_type="article_number">3677</item_number></publisher_item><program xmlns="http://www.crossref.org/AccessIndicators.xsd" name="AccessIndicators"><free_to_read start_date="2017-05-22"/><license_ref applies_to="am" start_date="2017-05-22">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</license_ref><license_ref applies_to="vor" start_date="2017-05-22">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</license_ref><license_ref applies_to="tdm" start_date="2017-05-22">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</license_ref></program><program xmlns="http://www.crossref.org/relations.xsd"><related_item><intra_work_relation identifier-type="uri" relationship-type="isSameAs">https://hal.science/hal-01509791v1</intra_work_relation></related_item></program><doi_data><doi>10.46298/societes-plurielles.2017.3677</doi><resource>http://societes-plurielles.episciences.org/3677</resource><collection property="crawler-based"><item crawler="iParadigms"><resource>https://hal.science/hal-01509791v1/document</resource></item></collection><collection property="text-mining"><item><resource mime_type="application/pdf">https://hal.science/hal-01509791v1/document</resource></item></collection></doi_data></journal_article></journal></body></doi_batch>