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Building a Society That Values Care

by Kathryn Cai, 22 June

Covid-19 in an Aging Society
Dossier

Why Has Racial Justice Still Not Been Achieved?

by The editorial team, 8 June
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How Austerity is Worsening Coronavirus

by Matthew Soener, 4 June

Articles

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Beyond Backlash

by Priscila Delgado de Carvalho, 21 May

How Gender Discourse Reaggregates Conservatisms
Essay

Tracing Apps to Fight Covid-19

by Marine Al Dahdah & Mohammad Javed Alam, 18 May

Are surveillance technologies effective?
Dossier

Faces of the Pandemic

by The editorial team, 17 April

We seem to struggle to take the measure of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its onset was sudden, its effects are uncertain and its...
Essay

Covid-19: Chronicle of an Outbreak Foretold

by Philippe Sansonetti, 30 March

What are Covid-19 and the coronavirus? What are the parameters, causes and effects of this disease? What are the short and...
Review

Knowledge Decolonized

by Laura Singeot, 23 March

About: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The End of the Cognitive Empire: the Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South, Duke University Press
Essay

What is a Public Health Problem?

by Frédéric Orobon, 30 January

On Abortion and Drugs
Recension

Cannibal Machine

by Martin Gibert, 23 January

About: Antonio Casilli, En attendant les robots, Seuil
Review

Feminism and Its Enemies

by Tristan Boursier, 20 January

About: Christine Bard, Mélissa Blais et Francis Dupuis-Déri (dir.), Antiféminismes et masculinismes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Puf
Review

Automotive Society

by Étienne Augris, 19 December 2019

About: Yoann Demoli et Pierre Lannoy, Sociologie de l’automobile, La Découverte
Essay

Algorithms and Territorial Regulation

by Dominique Cardon & Maxime Crépel, 16 December 2019

Uber, Waze, Airbnb… The algorithms that control these platforms are based on an optimisation of the service provided to the...
Review

Domination Among the Auditors

by Gaëtan Flocco, 4 November 2019

About: Sébastien Stenger, Au cœur des cabinets d’audit et de conseil. De la distinction à la soumission, Puf
Essay

The Afro: More Than a Hairstyle

by Ary Gordien, 19 September 2019

Recent contentious comments on social media in France show that the hair of Afro-descendants is still stigmatized. How is one...
Recension

Life After Prison

by François Bonnet, 16 September 2019

About: Bruce Western, Homeward. Life in the year after prison, Russell Sage Foundation
Review

The Price of Tolerance

by Michael Stambolis, 9 September 2019

About: Sylvie Tissot, Gayfriendly. Acceptation et contrôle de l’homosexualité à Paris et à New York, Raisons d’agir
Review

Foreign and Familiar

by Camille de Vulpillières, 26 August 2019

About: Michel Agier, L’Étranger qui vient. Repenser l’hospitalité, Seuil
Books & ideas

Summertime, and Reading Is Easy

by The editorial team, 12 August 2019

A Summer Selection
Dossier

On the Green Side

by The editorial team, 29 July 2019

A Summer Selection, part 3
Dossier

Nature and Alternative Spaces

by The editorial team, 15 July 2019

A Summer Selection, Part 1
Interview

Black Men and the Choice of Masculinity

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz, 24 June 2019

An Interview with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Review

Compulsory Happiness

by Rémy Pawin, 17 June 2019

About: Edgar Cabanas, Eva Illouz, Happycratie. Comment l’industrie du bonheur a pris le contrôle de nos vies, Premier Parallèle
Review

Work That Doesn’t Pay Off

by Anne Jourdain, 3 June 2019

About: Maud Simonet, Travail gratuit : La nouvelle exploitation ?, Textuel
Interview

The Politics of Antibiotics

by Adrien Allorant & Jules Naudet, 30 May 2019

An interview with Ramanan Laxminarayan
Interview

Notre-Dame: Heritage Emotions

by Nicolas Delalande, 2 May 2019

An Interview with Nathalie Heinich
Essay

Protest Music in the Age of Trump

by Ron Eyerman, 25 April 2019

The presidential election campaign and the unexpected election of Donald Trump was cause for immediate reaction from the...
Review

Surveil and Predict

by Sébastien Broca, 22 April 2019

About: Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Public Affairs
Review

The Myth of the Wrong Body

by Olga L. Gonzalez, 15 April 2019

About: Miquel Missé, A la conquista del cuerpo equivocado, Editorial Egales
Interview

Making Refuge in a Neoliberal Country

by Yasmine Bouagga, 4 April 2019

An Interview with Catherine Besteman
Essai

Norbert Elias, Catherine Deneuve and Gender Equality

by Florence Delmotte, 25 March 2019

Since the Weinstein affair, there has been a great deal of debate over men’s sexual urges. The sociology of Norbert Elias is a...
Essay

Elon Musk: the High-Stakes Gambler of Technological Capitalism

by Arnaud Saint-Martin, 14 March 2019

The career path of SpaceX’s CEO traces the contours of new technological capitalism. While Elon Musk is often hailed as a...
Essay

Ending the Anthropocene

by Claire Sagan, 22 January 2019

Predictive models in ecology generally assume that capitalism will be maintained. However, as Claire Sagan argues, adapting...
Essay

Corporate Responsibility in the Climate Crisis

by Swann Bommier & Cécile Renouard, 21 January 2019

The climate crisis demands that corporations be envisioned as “commons”, and that they serve the protection of the material and...
Review

Man the Oblivious Waste Creator

by Sylvie Lupton, 14 January 2019

About: Baptiste Monsaingeon, Homo Detritus. Critique de la société du déchet, Collection Anthropocène, Seuil
Essay

Logistical Meanderings

by Carlotta Benvegnù & David Gaborieau, 7 January 2019

When Working Class Mobility Transits Through the Warehouse
Review

The Coal Economists

by Gabriel Lombard, 31 December 2018

About: Antoine Missemer, Les Économistes et la fin des énergies fossiles (1865-1931), Classiques Garnier
Essay

Ireland’s Silences: the Magdalene Laundries

by Nathalie Sebbane, 24 December 2018

Thanks to the success of Peter Mullan’s film The Magdalene Sisters, Magdalene laundries—institutions meant to punish Ireland’s...
Review

Man the Consumer

by Anne de Rugy, 20 December 2018

About: Louis Pinto, L’invention du consommateur (The Invention of the Consumer), PUF, 2018
Essay

The color of France’s “yellow vests”

by Aurélien Delpirou, 17 December 2018

Jacquerie, revolt of the peripheries, or revenge of the working class? The initial analysis of the “yellow vest” (gilets...
Essay

The Unlikely State of Climate Justice

by Geoff Mann & Joel Wainwright, 10 December 2018

Can we rely on national governments to tackle climate change? Is a green capitalist state possible? For Geoff Mann and Joel...
Dossier

Who Will Save the Planet?

by Ivan Ascher & Marieke Louis, 10 December 2018

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change is three years old this week but is already under attack. In support of further...
Essay

What Non-Demand Demands

by Philippe Warin, 3 December 2018

On the non-take-up of social welfare

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