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Northern Irish Society in the Wake of Brexit

by Agnès Maillot, 7 June

Since the 2016 referendum, Brexit has dominated the political conversation in Northern Ireland, launching a debate on the...
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The Power of Billionaire Philanthropy in World Politics

by Peter Hägel, 10 May

At a time when billionaires are being targeted by conspiracy theories, what is the actual power of philanthropic billionaires...
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The Anthropocene: a Challenge for Agriculture

by Bertrand Valiorgue, 19 April

What will farming look like in the future? Will there still be room for agriculture? What is certain is that the time has...

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Trial by Politics

by Pierre Rosanvallon, 16 October 2013

A conversation between Pierre Rosanvallon and Claude Lefort, recorded in May 2009 at the République des Idées forum “Reinventing Democracy” in Grenoble.
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The Book: Its Past, Its Future

by Ivan Jablonka, 14 October 2013

An Interview with Roger Chartier
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Reform in China: Sluggish or Dynamic?

by Émilie Frenkiel, 11 October 2013

An Interview with Lucien Bianco
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Drug Legalization? A French Perspective

by Renaud Colson, 7 October 2013

It could be time, in France, to re-open the debate on drug legalization. Criminalization of drug use and distribution has...
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The Globalization of African Elections

by Jean-Philippe Dedieu, 3 October 2013

The Voting of Malian Emigrants
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Peter Zumthor: an “Acontemporary” Architect?

by Stéphane Füzesséry, 30 September 2013

The highest prize of the architectural world was awarded to Swiss architect Peter Zumthor in 2009. His phenomenological...
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The Invention of Globalisation

by Nicolas Delalande, 25 July 2013

An Interview with Patrick Boucheron
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Empowerment, From Theory to Practice

by Nicolas Duvoux, 8 July 2013

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

by Renaud Epstein, 4 July 2013

A Ten-Year Evaluation
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Revolutionary Roundup

by Guillaume Mazeau, 27 June 2013

Western Misconstructions of the Tunisian Revolution
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A Brief History of the Alter-Globalization Movement

by Geoffrey Pleyers, 20 June 2013

Activists supporting alter-globalization recently met in Tunis for this year’s World Social Forum. This is a good point from...
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The Commons, Old and New

by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, 17 June 2013

From Land Use to Information Sharing
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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...
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Field Testing in Development Economics

by Florian Mayneris, 10 June 2013

An Interview with Esther Duflo
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Revolution and the Crisis of Temporality

by Guillaume Mazeau & Jeanne Moisand, 27 May 2013

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

by Cristelle Terroni, 23 May 2013

An Interview with C. de Portzamparc
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The Multiple Meanings of Revolution

by Jean-Clément Martin, 13 May 2013

Upheaval, crisis and imponderables
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Labour markets and the crisis of the European Monetary Union

by Bob Hancké, 29 April 2013

Most observers think of the crisis of the European monetary union primarily as a crisis of failed fiscal discipline in a...
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Revolution and Redistribution

by Charles Walton, 23 April 2013

Reflections on France and Egypt
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Opening the Nazi archives at Bad Arolsen

by Jean-Marc Dreyfus, 11 April 2013

The International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, was set up after the war to trace millions of deported and...
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With or Without the Chinese People?

by Émilie Frenkiel, 8 April 2013

Intellectual Representations of Social Instability in early 21^st century China
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Mobile Phones and Politics in China

by Jun Liu, 28 March 2013

From Texting to Mobilizing
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Migrant Labour Culture in Post-Mao China

by Eric Florence, 14 March 2013

Against a backdrop of economic growth and growing spate of collective actions, rural migrant workers have developed...
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Fighting for a Fair Wage

by Chloé Froissart, 7 March 2013

The Changing Demands of the Chinese Working Class
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Claiming Indigenousness in India

by Raphael Rousseleau, 7 February 2013

India has created a National Commission for the Scheduled Tribes, the name given to its indigenous populations. Have the...
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The Need to Compare

by Thomas Grillot, 4 February 2013

Jack Goody’s Historical Anthropology
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Rebuilding a Monetary Union for Europe

by Shahin Vallée, 22 January 2013

From mutual insurance to fiscal federalism
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The Creation of Defence in China

by Judith Bout, 17 December 2012

Revisiting the Trial of the Gang of Four
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Artistic Beauty as a Political Weapon

by Vanina Géré, 6 December 2012

Contemporary Art from 1960 to 2010
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Mapping the Chinese NGO Sector

by Jianyu He, 19 November 2012

Mainland China has been experiencing a striking upsurge of non-governmental associational activities in the past thirty...
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The Creative Class to the Rescue of Cities?

by Denis Eckert & Michel Grossetti & Hélène Martin-Brelot, 9 November 2012

The notion of a creative class has been used to shape public policies promoting urban growth by building infrastructures and...
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The Internet and its Democratic Virtues

by Dominique Cardon, 8 November 2012

What are the political characteristics of the internet revolution? Plunging into “internet democracy,” Dominique Cardon...
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The Making of the Republican Candidate

by Christine Zumello, 30 October 2012

Looking Back on Primaries
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Human Rights and Politics

by Justine Lacroix, 24 October 2012

1980-2012
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The “War on Women”

by Jennifer Merchant, 22 October 2012

The expression the “war on women” has been circulating among political discourse and mainstream media on both sides of the...
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The Day Income Gaps Were Finally Capped

by Jean Gadrey, 15 October 2012

As we enter the twenty-second century, the need for capping income gaps to guarantee social cohesion and preserve the...
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Emergency Cinema

by Cécile Boëx, 5 October 2012

An Interview with Syrian Collective Abounaddara
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Gated Communities: Ghettos for the Rich?

by Éric Charmes, 1 October 2012

Gated communities are usually portrayed as ghettos in which the rich choose to seclude themselves out of fear of others and...
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National Conferences in Brazil

by Leonardo Avritzer, 28 September 2012

A New Participatory Political Model
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Why We Abolished Marriage

by François de Singly, 24 September 2012

A Private “Eutopia”

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