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When Creativity Becomes the Watchword

About: Andreas Reckwitz, The Invention of Creativity, Polity

by Olivier Alexandre, 22 October

‘Let’s be creative!’ Andreas Reckwitz traces the genealogy of this word, joyfully exploring its successive historic circumvolutions. A stimulating work that has not relinquished a certain philosophy of history.

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Medicine of the Black Body

by Élodie Grossi, 18 October

About: Rana A. Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in...

Books & ideas

Prisoners on Strike in the United States

by Joël Charbit & Gwenola Ricordeau, 15 October

The Unionization Strategy Put to the Test

Essay

LGBT: Chinese and Online

by Tao Hong & Lucas Monteil, 11 October

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A Call to Arms

by Fanny Bugnon, 8 October

When groups defined as minorities take a political stand, those in a...
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Audio-power

by Loïc Bertrand, 4 October

Music naturally conveys emotion but, over the course of the 20th century,...
Review

The Homeland of Equality

by Charles Lenoir, 1 October

While many see the United States as a land of freedom, Sean Wilentz...
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The Empire of Plants

by Pierre Nobi, 27 September

Can one write a history of colonization through plants? This is the...
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An Anti-Gender Europe

by Magali Della Sudda, 24 September

This panorama of the mobilizations against homosexual marriage in twelve...
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Is Bourdieu’s Theory Too Deterministic?

by Bridget Fowler, 20 September

Marc Joly’s book engages a vigorous debate with Jean-Louis Fabiani’s critical...

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Academic Inbreeding: An Evaluation

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Who owns nature ?

by Philippe Descola, 21 January 2008
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In the Best Interest of the Child

by Jennifer Merchant, 22 November 2010
Interview

Invisible constraints

by Florent Brayard, 15 December 2010
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Pluralism, Values, and the European Judge

by Pierre Brunet, 21 February 2012
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Nancy Fraser and the Theory of Participatory Parity

by Estelle Ferrarese, 14 September 2015
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History Speaks Many Languages

by Anne-Julie Etter & Thomas Grillot, 27 January 2012
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Where have the rebels gone?

by Nicolas Delalande & François Jarrige, 21 January 2010
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Allotment and Democracy in Ancient Greece

by Paul Demont, 13 December 2010
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Risk and the Masses

by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 3 December 2010
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What justice after war?

by Christian Nadeau, 14 January 2010
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The World Social Forum Challenge

by Geoffrey Pleyers, 28 January 2009
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The Politics of Error

by Henry Laurens, 16 October 2007
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Republican Reflections on the 15-M Movement

by Philip Pettit, 20 September 2011
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The Social State and Globalization

by Jean-Fabien Spitz, 11 February 2011
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From Risk To Disaster

by Florent Guénard & Philippe Simay, 8 June 2011

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Best of Books & Ideas, part I: Interviews

by Ophélie Siméon, 20 July 2015

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Studying Social Class: Legacy & Renewal

by Cristelle Terroni, 18 July 2016

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Democracy, Urban Issues and Corruption in Contemporary Brazil

by Alfredo Ramos, 19 June 2014

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