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Towards an Ecological Cinema

by Olivier Dorlin, 23 January

Hollywood cinema tends to represent climate change in catastrophist and sensationalistic movies. By contrast, a new type of ecological cinema emerges in which the issue of sustainability is taken into account not only as a theme, but also within the film production process.

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Ending the Anthropocene

by Claire Sagan, 22 January

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Corporate Responsibility in the Climate Crisis

by Swann Bommier & Cécile Renouard, 21 January

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The Label of Schizophrenia

by Laure Murat, 17 January

About: Hervé Guillemain, Schizophrènes au XXe siècle. Des effets secondaires...

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Man the Oblivious Waste Creator

by Sylvie Lupton, 14 January

Modern man produces increasing quantities of waste. But his relationship...
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Uchronia

by Emmanuelle Loyer, 10 January

Counterfactual history is a matter of ‘what ifs’. What if the Allies had lost...
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Logistical Meanderings

by Carlotta Benvegnù & David Gaborieau, 7 January

When Working Class Mobility Transits Through the Warehouse
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Veils in the Western World: a Thousand-Year History

by Francesca Canadé Sautman, 3 January

Men and women have been wearing veils for over a millennium in the West....
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The Coal Economists

by Gabriel Lombard, 31 December 2018

In the period between 1865 and 1931, economists were already questioning...
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The Bitcoin El Dorado

by Ludovic Desmedt & Odile Lakomski-Laguerre, 27 December 2018

Conceived by its inventors as the basis of a new monetary order, Bitcoin...

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J Street, the Lobby of the “Silent Majority”

by Pauline Peretz, 19 January 2011
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For an Ecological Democracy

by Dominique Bourg & Kerry Whiteside, 1 September 2009
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Democratic Universalism as a Historical Problem

by Pierre Rosanvallon, 8 April 2008
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The Nature and Limits of the Majority Principle

by Pasquale Pasquino, 20 April 2011
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The Politics of Error

by Henry Laurens, 16 October 2007
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Is Protectionism the Solution?

by Florian Mayneris, 17 January 2012
Interview

Teenagers and their sexuality

by Ivan Jablonka, 31 July 2008
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From Public Charity to Putting the Poor to Work

by Jacques Rodriguez, 2 October 2014
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Republican Reflections on the 15-M Movement

by Philip Pettit, 20 September 2011
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The Autumn of the Patriarchs

by Abdellah Tourabi, 18 May 2011
Interview

How to Modernize the British Welfare State

by Antoine Colombani, 6 May 2010
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October 2008: the return of the State?

by Bruno Bernardi, 29 January 2009
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The Social State and Globalization

by Jean-Fabien Spitz, 11 February 2011
Interview

The Empirical Sociology of Critique

by Nicolas Duvoux, 14 February 2012
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Could Random Selection and Deliberative Democracy Revitalize Politics in the 21^st Century?

by Yves Sintomer, 6 June 2012
Campaigning for Ideas

Are we Represented?

by Émilie Frenkiel & Ivan Jablonka, 6 January 2012

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Who Will Save the Planet?

by Ivan Ascher & Marieke Louis, 10 December 2018
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Best of Books & Ideas, Part 4: Geopolitics & Conflict

by Ophélie Siméon, 10 August 2015

A Summer Selection
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History in the Making

by Cristelle Terroni, 11 August 2014

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