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/The-Cleaver-and-the-Hussar https://booksandideas.net/The-Cleaver-and-the-Hussar 2023-07-20T07:30:00Z text/html en Michel Porret Society insecurity justice fascism racism safety Cairn.info <p>Can the law be broken to maintain public order? This is the question addressed in a remarkable comparative work on vigilantism and ‘rough justice' in the security era.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Imagining-Health-Disasters https://booksandideas.net/Imagining-Health-Disasters 2015-02-02T06:30:00Z text/html en Frédéric Keck health safety catastrophe <p>Patrick Zylberman examines how the concept of health security has developed over the last thirty years, focusing nowadays on global pandemics and the threat of bioterrorism. Such threats, which transcend national borders, require new surveillance systems to be put in place and call into question the very nature of state sovereignty.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Numbers-of-Crime https://booksandideas.net/The-Numbers-of-Crime 2012-05-08T09:06:16Z text/html en Bilel Benbouzid Society statistics crime delinquency safety Institut français <p>When it comes to delinquency, the press, as well as political discourse, tends to emphasize the “crime angle” over the “sociological angle.” Moreover, when quantitative data is used in public debate, trust in statistics is low. Philippe Robert's and Renée Zauberman's new book may suggest a way out of this unfortunate situation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Fukushima-The-Unremitting-Disaster https://booksandideas.net/Fukushima-The-Unremitting-Disaster 2012-04-13T13:21:30Z text/html en David Bornstein & Bernard Thomann International Japan Video Interviews health ethics safety nuclear policy Institut français (vidéo) <p>Paul Jobin, who has been monitoring workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant, provides an analysis of the Japanese government's denial of the health implications for these workers and, more broadly, the long-term effects of the disaster. This censorship is, however, being challenged by the social mobilization that has followed, particularly on the Internet.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Robert-Putnam-and-the-new-American https://booksandideas.net/Robert-Putnam-and-the-new-American 2007-11-20T10:07:12Z text/html en Éloi Laurent Economy migration integration safety <p>A poisonous theory has emerged from the most unlikely of sources: empirical evidence in hand, a progressive American political scientist maintains that racial diversity leads to civic <i>malaise</i>.</p>