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The Covid-19 Crisis in India

by Marine Al Dahdah & Mathieu Ferry & Isabelle Guérin & Govindan Venkatasubramanian, 13 April

A Nascent Humanitarian Tragedy
Review

Contagion, a Cultural History

by Neil Davie, 16 March

About: Kevin Siena, Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century
Essay

The color of France’s “yellow vests”

by Aurélien Delpirou, 17 December 2018

Articles

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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

In India as in Europe, the left wing is struggling. Looking beyond the financialisation of the economy and disparities in...
Review

Guilty of Being Poor

by Neil Davie, 12 January 2017

About: Jacques Carré, La prison des pauvres : l’expérience des workhouses en Angleterre, Vendémiaire.
Review

An Ethnography of Evictions in the United States

by Nicolas Duvoux, 23 June 2016

About: Matthew Desmond, Evicted. Poverty and Profit in the American City, Allen Lane.
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 professor, was the epitome of a successful...
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

About: Sudhir Venkatesh, Floating City. A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy, Penguin.
Essay

Field Testing in Development Economics

by Florian Mayneris, 10 June 2013

An Interview with Esther Duflo
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 the fact that there also exists a peaceful...
Review

Retracing the Steps of the Poor

by Michel Kokoreff, 4 June 2012

About: Jean-François Laé & Numa Murard, Deux générations dans la débine. Enquête dans la pauvreté ouvrière, Bayard
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 in favor of Camp David. No wonder: the “the city...
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

About: Romain Huret, La fin de la pauvreté?, Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
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 cultures”, culture has again become the focus 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 France, describes the issues surrounding the recent...
Review

A Sociologist in the Ghetto

by Jules Naudet, 11 April 2011

About: S. Venkatesh, Off the Books, Harvard University Press.
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 favourable economic conditions, he was able to reduce...
Review

The Precariousness Syndrome

by Nicolas Duvoux, 17 January 2011

About : Jean Furtos, De la précarité à l’auto-exclusion, Éditions Rue d’Ulm
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 third between now and 2012. It is based on the...
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” have left Eastern Europe. Their arrival in the...
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 developing countries over the past thirty years, through...
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? The American writer William T. Vollmann posed...

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