Books & ideas

Medieval emotions

Julien Le Mauff — 2025-05-02T07:00:00Z

Basing her anthropological history on a rich body of source material, Régine Le Jan explores interpersonal relationships in the Early Middle Ages, arguing that they constitute one of the socio-political specificities of the Latin West.

Empowerment, From Theory to Practice

Nicolas Duvoux — 2013-07-08T07:00:00Z

Empowerment is a new concept in France. M.-H. Bacqué spent some time in the United States studying this approach to public policy which aims to give power to individuals. She is now carrying out an assignment for the French Urban Ministry to promote the practice of empowerment, together with M. Mechmache from AC-LeFeu. Will public institutions learn how to trust civil society?

Open Data As a Key to Citizen Empowerment

Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz — 2012-01-20T08:11:17Z

A citizen, if informed, is active and attentive. In a transparent democracy, public authorities are truly accountable to their voters and citizens trust their leaders. In this interview, Dominique Cardon therefore advocates opening and making public data available online and encourages us to bet on their upright citizen use.

NGOs and the Environmental Warning

Sylvie Ollitrault — 2010-06-25T08:54:32Z

Environmental concern now seems to be a matter of broad consensus. It is sometimes forgotten that NGOs, long considered marginal, were the first to sound the alarm and lead the movement to protect the planet. We will now look back on thirty years of mobilisation that have changed our perception of these organisations.