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The invasion of Ukraine can seem to resurrect the images of the past: conquering armies, cities under siege, widespread destruction. The references to the Second World War abound, but they should not obscure the fact that this conflict, with all its complexity and tragedy, belongs firmly to the present.
About: Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence, Harper Collins
About : Julien Brachet, Judith Scheele, The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara, Cambridge University Press
About: Amélie Férey, Assassinats ciblés: critique du libéralisme armé, CNRS éditions
About: Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Thomas Piketty, Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities. A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020, Harvard University press
About: B. Pavard, F. Rochefort et M. Zancarini-Fournel, Ne nous libérez pas, on s’en charge. Une histoire des féminismes de 1789 à nos jours, La Découverte
À propos de : Cécile Vidal, Caribbean New Orleans : Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society, University of North Carolina Press
À propos de : Bruno Amable, La résistible ascension du néolibéralisme. Modernisation capitaliste et crise politique en France (1980-2020), La Découverte.