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The color of France’s “yellow vests”
by
Aurélien Delpirou
, 17 December 2018
Essay
What Non-Demand Demands
by
Philippe Warin
, 3 December 2018
On the non-take-up of social welfare
Essay
Where Does the Left Stand in India?
by
Jules Naudet
&
Stéphanie Tawa-Lama Rewal
, 10 September 2018
Articles
Review
Guilty of Being Poor
by
Neil Davie
, 12 January 2017
In La Prison des Pauvres, Jacques Carré considers the history of poverty and...
Review
An Ethnography of Evictions in the United States
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 23 June 2016
In the United States, tenant evictions have become a mass phenomenon. The...
Essay
On Improbable Success: The Case of Richard Hoggart
by
Claude Grignon
, 13 June 2016
Richard Hoggart (1918-2014), a poor child who went onto become a university...
Essay
Field Fright: Studying Urban Poverty in Boston
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 5 January 2015
Lessons from an Ethnographic Case Study
Essay
From Public Charity to Putting the Poor to Work
by
Jacques Rodriguez
, 2 October 2014
On the Speenhamland System
Essay
Ethnography of Everyday Racism
by
Linda Haapajärvi
&
Rébecca Ndour
, 1 November 2013
An Interview with Elijah Anderson
Review
Informal Ethnography in New York
by
François Bonnet
, 23 September 2013
In an unusual genre between fieldwork account and memoir, Sudhir Venkatesh...
Essay
Field Testing in Development Economics
by
Florian Mayneris
, 10 June 2013
Education, microcredit, health policy…. How can we really measure the...
Review
Muslims on the Decline?
by
Nida Kirmani
, 16 April 2013
Understanding Processes of Marginalisation in Urban India
Review
Exploiting the Urban Poor
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 18 February 2013
Eviction and Imprisonment of Afro-American Inner-city Dwellers
Essay
Syria: Anatomy of a Revolution
by
Leïla Vignal
, 21 September 2012
The attention given today to the armed uprising in Syria must not conceal...
Review
Retracing the Steps of the Poor
by
Michel Kokoreff
, 4 June 2012
Sociologists Jean-François Laé and Numa Murard have returned to the field...
Essay
Chicago: A City on the Brink
by
Andrew J. Diamond
, 15 May 2012
Originally scheduled to host the next G8 summit, Chicago has been bypassed...
Campaigning for Ideas
Housing: Helping Those Who Really Need It
by
David Bornstein
&
Pauline Peretz
, 24 February 2012
An Interview with Fanny Bugeja
Review
Poverty Experts in the United States
by
Jacques Rodriguez
, 26 January 2012
Is expertise about poverty possible in a country where the phenomenon...
Dossier
The Culture of Poverty
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 19 July 2011
In the U.S., in France as well with Hugues Lagrange’s book on “the denial of...
Essay
The Active Solidarity Benefit and the Fight against Poverty
by
Jean-Luc Outin
, 1 June 2011
The economist Jean-Luc Outin reviews the history of welfare benefits in...
Review
A Sociologist in the Ghetto
by
Jules Naudet
, 11 April 2011
After several years of field work in a Chicago black ghetto, sociologist...
Essay
Lula: Father of the Poor?
by
Frédéric Louault
, 4 April 2011
Lula had promised to be the president of the poor, and with the help of...
Review
The Precariousness Syndrome
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 17 January 2011
While sociological and philosophical studies of social suffering are...
Essay
The Collateral Victims of the
RSA
by
Hélène Périvier
, 12 January 2011
The RSA (Active Solidarity Income) is supposed to reduce poverty by one...
Essay
Europe Is Afraid of Its Roma
by
Jean-Baptiste Duez
, 10 December 2010
Since the 1990s and the collapse of the Communist bloc, thousands of “Roma”...
Review
The Culture of Poverty Reconsidered
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 6 October 2010
Essay
Benefits and costs of free trade for less developed countries
by
Nina Pavcnik
, 5 November 2009
Trade liberalization seems to have increased growth and income in...
Review
William T. Vollmann on Writing Poverty
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 27 February 2009
Who or what is responsible for your condition? The rich? Destiny? Yourself?...
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