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Chicago: A City on the Brink

by Andrew J. Diamond [15-05-2012]
Originally scheduled to host the next G8 summit, Chicago has been bypassed in favor of Camp David. No wonder: the “the city that works” works no more. With a terrible youth unemployment rate and (...)
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Politics

Is There a Dictatorship in the E.U.?

by Andrew Arato [11-05-2012]
The Orban government has enacted sweeping changes that have raised the specter of autocracy in Hungary: is the European Union about to have a dictatorship among its member states? For Andrew (...)
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Society

Novel Spatial Formats For Urban Inclusion

by Saskia Sassen [03-05-2012]
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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Society

Chicago and Paris

Second part of the article

by Marco Oberti [27-04-2012]
French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United (...)
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Society

Chicago and Paris

First part of the article

by Marco Oberti [26-04-2012]
French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United (...)
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Society

Giving Gifts

Debate between Anne Bory, Nicolas Guilhot, Sabine Rozier and Olivier Zunz

by Pauline Peretz [20-04-2012]
There is a long-standing tradition of contrasting the French and American models of philanthropy. According to four scholars invited to discuss the matter for Books and Ideas, this contrast, (...)
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International

In the Land of Voluntarism

An interview with Claude S. Fischer

by Nicolas Duvoux [19-04-2012]
In Made in America, sociologist Claude S. Fischer develops the idea that voluntarism, not individualism, is the key feature to describe social ties in America and that this notion of voluntarism (...)
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Philosophy

Louis Dumont’s Political Thought

by Vincent Descombes [17-04-2012]
Louis Dumont is very well known for his anthropological work on India, but rather less for his political thought. Vincent Descombes emphasizes the substantial originality of that thought, which (...)
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International

Fukushima: The Unremitting Disaster

An Interview with Paul Jobin, sociologist

by David Bornstein & Bernard Thomann [13-04-2012]
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, (...)
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Culture & media

What Images Show

An Interview with Philippe Descola

by Philippe Simay [05-04-2012]
The curator of the recent La fabrique des images exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, anthropologist Philippe Descola offers a new approach of pictorial representations on the five (...)
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