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From the New South to the Global South

About: Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Princeton University Press, 2010.

by Elisabeth Engel, 21 November 2012

In 1901 a small group of African-American agronomists from the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, undertook to teach the Ewe tribe in the German colony of Togo cotton-farming techniques deployed in the (...)

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Labor Migration and Social Rights

Interview with Chloé Froissart and Paul-André Rosental

by Nicolas Delalande & Ivan Jablonka & translated by Arianne Dorval, 13 October 2012

Whilst Europe takes a hard line on the question of immigration, in China millions of internal migrant workers are demanding recognition of their social rights. As was the case in Europe at the (...)

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Thinking Global

by Thomas Grillot, 19 August 2012

Historians, sociologists, and social scientists in general have long tried to “think big” and “global.” The rise of Asia in the world economy has stimulated anew this attraction for the macro-level. (...)

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Novel Spatial Formats For Urban Inclusion

Megaregions and Global Cities

by Saskia Sassen, 3 May 2012

Focusing on the two cases of megaregions and global cities, sociologist Saskia Sassen explores how a more equitable distribution of benefits can be reached at the level of great urban (...)

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Who Rules the Global Rule Makers?

About: T. Büthe & Walter Mattli, The New Global Rulers; Vibert, Democracy and Dissent.

by Martin Albrow, 3 November 2011

Thirty years of misguided deregulation have brought us the 2008 collapse. Two books look at how we should create new rules democratically. While adopting widely different perspectives, both beg (...)

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Worldwide Libel

by David Chekroun & translated by Pascale Torracinta, 6 June 2011

Are English courts following in the footsteps of their French counterparts and establishing themselves as the censors of research worldwide? According to David Chekroun, “libel tourism” is on the (...)

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Testing Biopolitics against World Population Growth

About: M. Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, Harvard University Press, 2008.

by Paul-André Rosental, 21 March 2011

The fear of a global demographic explosion, starting in the early 20th century, has prompted birth-control policies. According to Matthew Connelly, the will of men in the North to impact the (...)

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The Social State and Globalization

by Jean-Fabien Spitz & translated by Susan Emanuel, 11 February 2011

Does the globalization of the economy inevitably imply a lowering of our social protections? As Jean-Fabien Spitz shows, this would mean considering them as a mere luxury that we must give up (...)

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Shock, What Shock?

About: Reviewed: N. Ferguson, C. Maier, E. Manela and D. Sargent, eds., The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, Harvard University Press, 2010

by Martin Albrow, 7 February 2011

Were the 1970s a critical decade in the advance of globalization? This edited volume written by American historians is arguing that globalization is the unplanned outcome of the two oil price (...)

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Global France

An interview with Laurent Dubois

by Ivan Jablonka & Silyane Larcher, 8 October 2010

In his previous research, Laurent Dubois showed how the Caribbean revolutions implemented the ideals of 1789. He now calls for rethinking the history of France thanks to the incorporation of its (...)

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Seeing Double

About: C. Chéroux, Diplopie, Le Point du Jour.

by Gérôme Truc, 16 September 2010

Why is the photographic record of 9/11, the most photographed event in history, limited to an endlessly repeated loop of a handful of images? In a book as rich as it is concise, Clément Chéroux, a (...)

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Where have the rebels gone?

Interview with Eric Hobsbawm

by Nicolas Delalande & François Jarrige, 21 January 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 Globalisation Has Done to Wine

About: M.-F. Garcia-Parpet, Le Marché de l’excellence, Seuil.

by Pierre-Marie Chauvin, 27 July 2009

Confronted with transformations in the global market, does French wine still define itself as a product of excellence? By examining the “crisis” of the French model, Marie-France Garcia-Parpet, a (...)

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Deconstructing globalization

About: S. Sassen, A Sociology of Globalization, Norton.

by Martin Albrow, 4 June 2009

In her latest book, Saskia Sassen undertakes a ruthless demystification of economic globalization. She argues that globalization is embedded in institutions and places and reveals the nature of (...)

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The crisis is more than economics

Creating a global culture of responsibility

by Martin Albrow & Colin Bradford, 1 April 2009

At the London G20 Summit, hosted by Gordon Brown, the leaders of the major new “great powers”, China, India and Brazil, will be prominent. What can be expected from this meeting? The G20 will only (...)

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The World Social Forum Challenge

by Geoffrey Pleyers, 28 January 2009

The 8th World Social Forum opened on January 27th in Belem, Brazil. Geoffrey Pleyers explains the situation of the alter-globalisation movement: in spite of the success of its ideas in the wake (...)

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History and Globalisation

About : C. Douki & P. Minard, “Histoire globale, histoires connectées: un changement d’échelle historiographique?”, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine.

by Bernard Thomann, 5 January 2009

In the age of globalisation, how can one write an open history of the world, of its exchanges, movements, and encounters? A recent issue of the Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine gave a (...)

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American Exceptionalism at Its End

An interview with Thomas Bender

by Nicolas Delalande, 28 November 2008

What are the origins of American exceptionalism? How much of the Bush administration’s foreign policy and the temptation of imperialism can one ascribe to this belief in an America outside of the (...)

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