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Post-colonial Governance on a French Island

The 101^st Department

by Nicolas Roinsard & translated by Arthur Goldhammer, 20 June 2012

Mayotte joined the ranks of French departments in 2011. Although it passed almost unnoticed, the event reflects an integration that began in the 1970s but that is likely to continue for many (...)

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Essays

Reconstructing Citizenship for the Twenty-first Century

An interview with Bruce Ackerman

by Thomas Grillot & Jean-Claude Monod, 5 March 2012

A world-famous legal scholar, Bruce Ackerman wants to reinvigorate citizenship in today’s democracies. Here, he reexamines the intellectual foundations of his work, and some of the pragmatic (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Open Data As a Key to Citizen Empowerment

An Interview with Dominique Cardon, sociologist

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz & translated by John Zvesper, 20 January 2012

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, (...)

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Reviews

Participating Is Not Enough

About: Nina Eliasoph, Making Volunteers. Civic Life after Welfare’s End, 2011

by Julien Talpin & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 5 January 2012

In the United States, empowerment strategies emphasizing commitments that are brief, informal, and fun have proved tone deaf to the political importance of associations. If civic engagement is to (...)

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Dossiers

European Citizenship on the March

by Florent Guénard, 24 October 2011

At a time when Europe is equated with sovereign debt and political powerlessness, one should not forget that the foundations for a European citizenship have already been laid. Its potential for (...)

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Reviews

From the Rights of Man to Human Rights?

About: S. Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Harvard.

by Justine Lacroix, 1 December 2010

If human rights are our last utopia, it is only if we understand, says the American historian Samuel Moyn, that they are not the same as the rights of man as proclaimed at the end of the 17th (...)

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Essays

Is European citizenship feasible?

by Justine Lacroix, 7 January 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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Reviews

Back from the Trenches

About: C. Prochasson, 14-18. Retours d’expériences, Tallandier.

by Pierre Purseigle, 23 April 2009

In his recent book devoted to the historiographical debate over the Great War, Christophe Prochasson explores the ongoing renegotiation of the forms of patriotic consent, as well as the blurring (...)

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Essays

Can We Trust the “Society of Distrust”?

by Éloi Laurent, 16 April 2009

Confidence and trust have flown away: such seems to be the inevitable conclusion during these times of economic stagnation and collapsing banking system. It has thus become urgent to define more (...)

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Reviews

From a Civic Point of View

About : E. F. Isin & G. M. Nielsen (eds.), Acts of Citizenship, Zed Books.

by David Owen, 26 December 2008

What is citizenship? Not only a status, it derives above all from acts and practices. The collective volume Acts of citizenship advocates for a new approach of civic action, by focusing for (...)

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Reviews

Making Urban Democracy Work

by Eugene McCann, 5 December 2008

In his latest work, Purcell concerns himself with democracy applied to urban life. Democracy necessitates the interaction of citizens’ activisms in an agonistic fashion. The author strongly (...)

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