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/Baviskar-Uncivil-City https://booksandideas.net/Baviskar-Uncivil-City 2021-05-31T07:00:00Z text/html en Marie-Hélène Zérah International social justice poverty city India environmentalism town planning <p>Efforts to make Delhi a “global” city have gone hand in hand with the destruction of nature and the commons, as well as the relegation of the poor to the periphery. The development of this metropolis attests to the urgency to reconcile ecological justice and social justice.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Chancel-Unsustainable-Inequalities https://booksandideas.net/Chancel-Unsustainable-Inequalities 2021-01-25T08:00:00Z text/html en Matthew Soener Economy capitalism inequalities social justice environmentalism economic growth social conflicts sustainibility Books and ideas originals <p>The two most urgent problems facing humanity are economic inequality and environmental destruction. Lucas Chancel argues these two are deeply intertwined. Solutions to one must necessarily involve the other.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Activism-in-the-Age-of-Financialization https://booksandideas.net/Activism-in-the-Age-of-Financialization 2019-05-13T06:00:00Z text/html en Jacob Hamburger Economy capitalism finance Philosophy social justice investment activism Books and ideas originals <p>By transforming capitalism, the hegemony of finance has created new sites of social struggle. How can citizens regain a form of collective agency in the speculative process? A new book by the philosopher Michel Feher imagines a politics capable of responding to the dominance of finance.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Extraordinary-Men https://booksandideas.net/Extraordinary-Men 2018-02-26T08:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux Society United States of America democracy social justice Florence Gould Foundation philanthropy <p>Does philanthropy strengthen or undermine democracy and social justice? Acknowledging the scale and scope of the phenomenon in American society, a new book offers both normative and empirical insights into the question.</p> https://booksandideas.net/When-the-Check-Out-Staff-Checked https://booksandideas.net/When-the-Check-Out-Staff-Checked 2012-07-06T06:40:12Z text/html en Sophie Bernard Society France social justice strike distribution mobilization Florence Gould Foundation <p>Whilst staff working conditions in the supermarket industry have often been criticised by the media and social scientists alike, supermarket distribution nevertheless remains a sector largely untouched by mass worker mobilisation. In her work, Marlène Benquet shares her account of an unlikely supermarket strike, following the events as they unfolded.</p>