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Castes, untouchability and social success in India

by Jules Naudet [18-03-2010]
Even if India is a caste society, social mobility is not impossible. Many years of positive discrimination policies and struggle have enabled some Dalits—the caste name of the so-called (...)
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Portrait of the intellectual as a DJ

by Philippe Lacour [12-03-2010]
Wikipedia is on its way to becoming something of an institution in today’s intellectual landscape. What role, one might ask, is scientific expertise going to play here? According to Philippe (...)
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The end of sovereignty ?

About : J. Agnew, Globalization and Sovereignty, Rowman and Littelfield.
par Stephen Sawyer [24-02-2010]
Is globalization “flattening” our world, leaving it void of territory and sovereignty ? Such claims, repeated at length by carpetbagging globalists, are simply false in the eyes of political (...)
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What Remains of Dance

About: F. Pouillaude, Le Désœuvrement chorégraphique, Vrin.
by Bernard Sève [11-02-2010]
The various dance notation systems invented over the years have never succeeded in becoming part of choregraphic practices. Works are almost completely absorbed by the performance and are only (...)
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Where have the rebels gone?

An interview with Eric Hobsbawm (video)
by Nicolas Delalande & François Jarrige [21-01-2010]
Fifty years after his pioneering books on rebellion and social banditry, Eric Hobsbawm explains why he always paid close attention to “uncommon people” and popular forms of revolt, and analyses how (...)
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What justice after war?

by Christian Nadeau [14-01-2010]
Is it possible, after a conflict or genocide, to deliver justice and build a new political order acceptable to all sides previously set on destroying each other? Christian Nadeau looks at recent (...)
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Is European citizenship feasible?

by Justine Lacroix [07-01-2010]
Europe is inventing a new form of citizenship founded not in government participation but in the achievement of specifically European rights and in a political debate increasingly geared to (...)
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Guattari’s Relevance

About: F. Guattari, Les années d’hiver (1980-1985), Les Prairies ordinaires.
by Manola Antonioli [10-12-2009]
Les Années d’hiver [“Winter Years”] a volume of articles published between the end of the 1970s and the end of the 1980s, constitutes an interesting entrée into Félix Guattari’s thought: his (...)
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China and its Democratic Fiction

About : S. Veg, Fictions du pouvoir chinois, Éditions de l’EHESS.
by Emilie Frenkiel [04-12-2009]
What can literature teach us about China’s experience of democracy in the twentieth century? In an ambitious work, Sebastian Veg explores the links between fiction and democracy in his search for (...)
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The family is priceless

An introduction to the work of Viviana Zelizer
by Jeanne Lazarus [26-11-2009]
Exploring the relationships between the economy and the family through the issue of financial compensation for the death of a child or decisions relating to food allowance, the work of Viviana (...)
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