Books & ideas

Does the world still revolve around America?

Serge Gruzinski — 2023-02-02T08:00:00Z

The United States is no longer modernity's driving force and primary symbol. American cultural imperialism is coming to an end. What better time to recall that American culture, which is as reviled as it is adulated, is itself the result of countless mestizajes - as is the rest of the continent.

Knowledge Decolonized

Laura Singeot — 2020-03-23T08:00:00Z

While the “cognitive empire” feeds on a single conception of knowledge forged by European modernity, epistemologies of the South validate the knowledges produced by the resistance of groups having systematically suffered oppression.

The Sedimentation of Empire

Herman Lebovics — 2015-10-08T08:20:49Z

Responding to the wave of decolonizations, the Directorate General for Development and Cooperation (DG8) was created in 1963. Supporting the imperial continuity argument, Véronique Dimier's book offers a deeply researched study on the evolutions of this European overseas aid and development organization up to this day.

Allies once but forever rivals

Myriam Yakoubi — 2012-09-07T07:20:58Z

Was the Franco-British rivalry in the Middle East the driving force behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? After the First World War, as they were determined to hold on to their mandates—Syria and Lebanon for France, Iraq and Palestine for Britain—the two countries secretly worked to destroy each other by fuelling revolts and terrorism.