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Race and Republicanism

by Dominique Schnapper, 23 February 2015

About : Magali Bessone, Sans distinction de race ? Une analyse critique du concept de race et de ses effets pratiques, Vrin, 2013.
Essay
René Dumont: Utopia, Forty Years Later

by Alexandre Moatti, 19 February 2015

“Do we have the right to make bets on the future of mankind?” Forty-one years after being the first ecologist candidate in a...
Essay
Ronald Dworkin: Law as Novel Writing

by Julie Allard, 5 February 2015

Ronald Dworkin’s innovative and politically ambitious work has become essential reading in political and legal theory. Taking...
Essay
Mobilizing People in Low-Income Neighbourhoods

by Julien Talpin, 22 January 2015

The Virtues and Ambiguities of Community Organizing
Review
Bonaparte: a Condottiere in Revolution

by Annie Jourdan, 15 January 2015

Reviewed : Patrice Gueniffey, Bonaparte, Paris, Gallimard, 2013, 860 p., 30 €.
Essay
Ferguson and the New Black Condition in the United States

by François Bonnet & Clément Théry, 24 November 2014

Michael Brown’s death and the Ferguson unrest signal a change in the condition of Black people in American society since 2000....
Review
Max Weber and Capitalism’s Strange Rationality

by Isabelle Kalinowski, 17 November 2014

About: Michael Löwy, La Cage d’acier. Max Weber et le marxisme wébérien [The Iron Cage: Max Weber and Weberian Marxism], Stock, coll. “Un ordre d’idées”, 2013, 200 p., 18€

Michel Lallement, Tensions majeures. Max Weber, l’économie, l’érotisme [Major Tensions: Max Weber, Economics, Eroticism], Gallimard, 2013, 288 p., 19.90€
Review
An Ideology of the Drone

by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, 6 November 2014

About: Grégoire Chamayou, Théorie du drone, Paris, La Fabrique, 2013, 363 p., 14 €. An English translation by Janet Lloyd: A Theory of the Drone, New York, The New Press, is to be published in 2015
Essay
Thinking Between Shores: Georges Devereux

by François Laplantine, 27 October 2014

From the margins to which he was confined, Georges Devereux (1908-1985) formulated some of the most original scientific work...
Review
Political Animals?

by Antoine Grandjean, 23 October 2014

About: Sue Donaldson et Will Kymlicka, Zoopolis. A political Theory of Animal Rights, Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 p
Essay
What Can We Learn From Ecological Economics?

by Albert Merino-Saum & Philippe Roman, 16 June 2014

Environmental economics, the economics of natural resources, sustainable development, green economics, sustainability...
Essay
The Human Element vs. the Standardization of Medical Care

by Élie Azria, 5 June 2014

Originally conceived to help physicians make enlightened decisions, evidence-based medicine in North America and elsewhere...
Review
Unionization for Everyone?

by Jean Heffer, 12 May 2014

About: Jean-Christian Vinel, The Employee: A Political History, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Essay
Once Upon a Time in America There was Michael Jackson

by Sylvie Laurent, 24 April 2014

Michael Jackson was a lot more than just a singer: Sylvie Laurent recounts the story of the pop star who became a “monster,”...
Essay
What the Mountain Knows

by Catherine Larrère, 7 April 2014

The Roots of Environmental Philosophies
Review
Playing Together

by Marc Perrenoud, 3 April 2014

About: Howard S. Becker and Robert R. Faulkner, Thinking Together: An Email Exchange and All That Jazz, Annenberg Press, Les laboratoires d’Aubervilliers & Questions Théoriques (co-publishers).
Essay
Towards a critical approach to social mix

by Éric Charmes, 17 March 2014

Should we redistribute populations or resources?
Review
The Missing Play

by Patrick Boucheron, 10 March 2014

About: Roger Chartier, Cardenio entre Cervantès et Shakespeare. Histoire d’une pièce perdue, Gallimard, 2011.
Review
Mark Rothko, Painter in the Making

by Fabrice Flahutez, 27 February 2014

About: Mark Rothko, The Artist’s Reality, edited and with an introduction by Christopher Rothko, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006, 136 p. ; Mark Rothko, Writings On Art, Edited and with an introduction, annotations, and chronology by Miguel López-Remiro, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006, 172 p.
Review
Creativity, Reason and Uncertainty

by Nathalie Heinich, 24 February 2014

About: Pierre-Michel Menger, Le Travail créateur: S’accomplir dans l’incertain [Creative Work: Achievements under Uncertainty], Gallimard/Seuil, 2009.
Review
Creativity as Labour

by Pierre-Michel Menger, 24 February 2014

What is Sociology of Art? (II)
Review
How the Indians Conquered the West

by Thomas Grillot, 20 January 2014

About: Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008, 500 p.
Essay
The Constraints of the Right to Know

by Paul-Loup Weil-Dubuc, 16 January 2014

Thoughts on Presymptomatic Diagnosis
Essay
The Anti-Establishment Impact of Postcolonial Studies

by Jules Naudet, 9 December 2013

An Interview with Jacques Pouchepadass
Essay
The Other “People”

by Chloé Gaboriaux, 2 December 2013

With the accession of Napoléon III, French republicans encountered an undiscovered people: rural peasants. Because these...
Review
Is China Destined to Democratize?

by Émilie Frenkiel, 14 November 2013

About: Mireille Delmas-Marty and Pierre-Étienne Will (eds.), China, Democracy, and Law: A Historical and Contemporary Approach, 2012.
Essay
Why are people setting fire to libraries?

by Denis Merklen & Numa Murard, 7 November 2013

Social violence and written culture
Essay
Ethnography of Everyday Racism

by Linda Haapajärvi & Rébecca Ndour, 1 November 2013

An Interview with Elijah Anderson
Essay
Reform in China: Sluggish or Dynamic?

by Émilie Frenkiel, 11 October 2013

An Interview with Lucien Bianco
Review
Globalization under Alexander the Great

by Silvia Sebastiani, 9 September 2013

About: Pierre Briant, Alexandre des Lumières: Fragments d’histoire européenne [The Enlightenment’s Alexander: Fragments of European History], Gallimard, 2012
Review
Being American

by Nicolas Barreyre, 5 September 2013

About: Patrick Weil, The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Interview
The Scandinavian Exception: Myths and Realities

by Émilie Frenkiel, 2 September 2013

An Interview with Yohann Aucante
Essay
The Invention of Globalisation

by Nicolas Delalande, 25 July 2013

An Interview with Patrick Boucheron
Interview
The Earth’s Ambassador

by Arnaud Esquerre & Jeanne Lazarus, 22 July 2013

An Interview with Bruno Latour
Essay
Empowerment, From Theory to Practice

by Nicolas Duvoux, 8 July 2013

An Interview with Marie Hélène-Bacqué
Essay
Urban Policy in France and Great Britain

by Renaud Epstein, 4 July 2013

A Ten-Year Evaluation
Interview
Divorce and Identity

by Taraneh Moussavi, 1 July 2013

An Interview with François de Singly
Essay
Civic Mobilization in Russia: Protest and Daily Life

by Karine Clément, 14 June 2013

Has Russia, amidst rising social discontent and pervasive economic crisis, rediscovered collective mobilization? In this...
Essay
Revolution and the Crisis of Temporality

by Guillaume Mazeau & Jeanne Moisand, 27 May 2013

An Interview with Yves Citton and Myriam Revault d’Allonnes
Essay
Rhythms of Construction

by Cristelle Terroni, 23 May 2013

An Interview with C. de Portzamparc

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