https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Unfinished-Modernity https://booksandideas.net/Unfinished-Modernity 2016-04-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Cristelle Terroni Brazil Lebanon conflict Institut français contemporary art space Cyprus <p>Scattered all over the world are abandoned places, promises of modernity that history, economics or politics have shattered. The Suspended Spaces collective has undertaken to project the gaze of contemporary artists onto these ghostly spaces.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Not-Quite-White-The-Lebanese-of-West-Africa https://booksandideas.net/Not-Quite-White-The-Lebanese-of-West-Africa 2015-04-13T05:30:00Z text/html en Simon Jackson Society History Colonialism Africa diaspora Lebanon empire migration <p>Why do people migrate? How can they live in several worlds and many nations at once? Tracing the history of the Lebanese migration to West Africa, Andrew Arsan offers a brilliant reappraisal of diaspora, nation and empire in the first half of the twentieth century.</p>