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Operation Pied Piper: Britain’s Forgotten War Children
by
Marilyn Johnston
, 23 December 2021
On the eve of the Second World War, more than a million British children were evacuated to the countryside for their...
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The Multiplicity of Gender
by
Emmanuel Beaubatie
, 13 October 2021
The multiplicity of possible gender positions cannot be reduced to a spectrum opposing male and female. Numerous conceptions...
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Northern Irish Society in the Wake of Brexit
by
Agnès Maillot
, 7 June 2021
Since the 2016 referendum, Brexit has dominated the political conversation in Northern Ireland, launching a debate on the...
Articles
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To Be or Not to Be Charlie?
, 3 September 2015
Charlie Hebdo, Blasphemy and Defamation of Religions in France and England
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Is Debt the Achilles’ Heel of Europe?
, 16 July 2015
The history of European debt is a cautionary tale about the powerful inducements for households, companies and states to ‘live...
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Can Britain be European?
by
Emile Chabal
&
Stephan Malinowski
, 22 June 2015
Beyond the “Historians for Britain” Manifesto
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The Recruitment Game
by
Sarah Labelle
&
Aude Seurrat
, 18 June 2015
Using Video Games as Hiring Tools
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The International Health System and the Ebola Epidemic
by
Auriane Guilbaud
, 8 June 2015
The management of the Ebola epidemic by the international community has revealed the deficiencies of health development aid,...
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The Origins of the Islamic State
by
Matthieu Rey
, 21 May 2015
Is the Islamic State a state, as it claims to be? Or does it designate a new form of imperial sovereignty? Matthieu Rey...
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Constitutionalism and Democracy
by
Dominique Rousseau
, 11 May 2015
How can it be legitimate for a judge to overturn a law passed by the people’s representatives? Isn’t that judge interfering...
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Conceptualizing Capitalism
by
Geoffrey Hodgson
, 7 May 2015
How the Misuse of Key Concepts Impedes our Understanding of Modern Economies
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The
ECB
: A Democratic Problem for Europe?
by
Clément Fontan
, 30 April 2015
During the eurozone crisis, the European Central Bank (ECB) did not just respond to the risks of financial instability; it...
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Cost and Quality
by
Florian Mayneris
, 20 April 2015
The French Economy’s “Competitiveness” Problem
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Referendum Uncertainty
by
Dominique Rousseau
, 9 April 2015
Although a useful instrument of representative government, a referendum is not the embodiment of direct democracy that many...
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American Wars, Barely Visible to Americans
by
Michael Sherry
, 30 March 2015
In 2001, the US launched a War on Terror the failures of which were not altogether unpredictable. More surprising has been...
Essay
Geopolitics of Translation
by
Lucie Campos
, 27 March 2015
An Interview with Gisèle Sapiro
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Laborious Nature
by
Stéphane Van Damme
, 23 March 2015
Simon Schaffer and the History of Science
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Catholics and gender
by
Anthony Favier
, 16 March 2015
A Historical Approach
Essay
“The Greatest Discovery Ever Communicated to Mankind”
by
Neil Davie
, 2 March 2015
George Combe and the Growth of Phrenology in Early Nineteenth-Century England
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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...
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Power to the Piketties!
, 17 February 2015
While confessing her admiration for Thomas Piketty, American economist Nancy Folbre has three objections to his theories....
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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
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Redefining Sustainable Economies
by
Michel Gueldry
, 12 January 2015
How can one challenge the hegemony of neo-classical economics? In this essay, Michel Gueldry examines the emergence, scope...
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Field Fright: Studying Urban Poverty in Boston
by
Nicolas Duvoux
, 5 January 2015
Lessons from an Ethnographic Case Study
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Has the Competitiveness Obsession Killed Europe?
by
Ecolinks
, 29 December 2014
The policies implemented in response to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and serious economic imbalances evoke the concept of...
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Joan W. Scott’s Critical History of Inequality
by
Clyde Plumauzille
, 22 December 2014
For more than thirty years, Joan Scott has been informing and transforming both our history and the way we write history,...
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German Debates on Inequality and Public Policy
by
Ulrike Stein
, 18 December 2014
In our third text published in partnership with Public Books, Ulrike Stein shows how the vivid empirical material and...
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Reading with Dissidents
by
Weronika Parfianowicz-Vertun
, 15 December 2014
In the 1970s and 1980s, Polish, Hungarian and Czechoslovakian dissidents used illegal, home-made books and papers to voice...
Essay
Confusion on the Commons
by
Allan Greer
, 8 December 2014
At a time when the issue of intellectual property dominates the Internet, the struggle for control of the digital universe is...
Essay
The 100-year Welfare State?
by
Michael Huberman
, 1 December 2014
Clichés notwithstanding, the demise of the welfare state has been greatly exaggerated. Despite diverse interests, groups of...
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The Ministry of Memory
by
Valentin Behr
, 27 November 2014
In order to tell the history of the communist period, Poland created a mechanism that is uniquely Eastern European: an...
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....
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The Growth of Inequality from 2007 to 2014
by
Nicolas Frémeaux
, 5 November 2014
After declining in 2008-2009, income inequality has now returned to its pre-crisis level and even beyond. This situation is...
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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...
Essay
Pan-ethnicity and Latino Communities in the
U.S.
by
Marie L. Mallet
, 20 October 2014
Assessing Intra-group Cohesion
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From Public Charity to Putting the Poor to Work
by
Jacques Rodriguez
, 2 October 2014
On the Speenhamland System
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Muslim Castes in India
by
Rémy Delage
, 29 September 2014
The key notion of caste often goes beyond the strict framework of Hinduism, in which it originated, to influence the social...
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Kenzaburō Ōe: The Barbarism of Reality
by
Antonin Bechler
, 25 September 2014
Kenzaburō Ōe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a controversial figure in Japan. And rightly so, for there are a...
Essay
To Be A World Citizen: Political Horizon or Abyss?
by
Michaël Foessel
, 11 September 2014
The world is no longer a vague, indeterminate idea: our lives are so globalized that it is now a reality. Does...
Essay
André Gorz: Thinker of Emancipation
by
Christophe Fourel
&
Francoise Gollain
, 28 August 2014
André Gorz’s multiform thought is entirely centred on liberation: from work, which prevents individuals from thriving; from...
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The Meaning of Representation
by
Roger Chartier
, 25 August 2014
To understand the concept of political representation, Roger Chartier, the historian of the book, proposes to relate it to...
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A Self-Subversive Temperament
by
Cyrille Ferraton
&
Ludovic Frobert
, 23 July 2014
A Portrait of Albert Hirschman
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