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Pluralism, Values, and the European Judge

by Pierre Brunet [21-02-2012]
Far from being natural, the compatibility between the legal orders of the European Union and member states is the result of arrangements and decisions through which judges ensure the preeminence of European norms over national legislation and extend the rule of law over an ever-widening realm.
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China: Back to the Imperial Sense of the State

by Pierre-Etienne Will [17-02-2012]
Historian Pierre-Etienne Will decodes the current official reevaluation in China of some Qing dynasty officials as great patriots and paragons of bureaucratic ethics.It may be attributed to the (...)
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Liberty, Security, Flexibility

About: Bénédicte Zimmermann, Ce que travailler veut dire, Economica.

by Elodie Béthoux [16-02-2012]
Sociologist Bénédicte Zimmerman’s empirical studies of employer groups and participative management reveals how the tension that exists between the individual and the collective is being reshaped in (...)
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The Empirical Sociology of Critique

An Interview with Luc Boltanski

by Nicolas Duvoux [14-02-2012]
Sociologist Luc Boltanksi situates his most recent publications and their main concepts within his broader intellectual trajectory, examining critical sociology and the sociology of critique, and (...)

Getting Employment Going Again

An Interview with Philippe Askenazy

by Ivan Jablonka [10-02-2012]
If we want to adjust to the world the crisis has thrust us in, we will have to stop blaming unemployment on the “French Model.” For economist Philippe Askenazy, we need to shift from a vision of (...)

The Chinese State at Work

About: Susan Greenhalgh, Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China, Harvard University Press.

by Christopher Kutarna [09-02-2012]
Foreign opposition to the Chinese one-child policy build up in 1980s, put forth by American conservatives looking for an anti-abortion cause célèbre. But looking at this most famous of Chinese (...)

Minimal Ethics

About: R. Ogien, L’influence de l’odeur des croissants chauds sur la bonté humaine, Grasset.

by Marc-Antoine Dilhac [07-02-2012]
Simply by analysing the moral problems of each and every one of us, Ruwen Ogien takes the stance of ‘minimal ethics’. His book reads like a good mystery novel in which the detective proves against (...)

Reforming the French Police

An Interview with Fabien Jobard, sociologist

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz [03-02-2012]
In their discussion of crime and the best ways to curb it, French politicians have relied on a crude opposition between “the culture of results” and neighborhood policing, a doctrine whose American (...)

Masses Taking Over The Square

About: Malte Rolf, Soviet Mass Festivals, ROSSPEN.

by Kirill Postoutenko [02-02-2012]
The ordered occupation of public spaces by the masses played a central role in the rituals of the Soviet state. Drawing on a long tradition of Russian holidays, mass festivals were supposed to (...)

Gangs of Paris or Thereabout

About: Marwan Mohammed, La formation des bandes, PUF.

by Michel Kokoreff [31-01-2012]
Youth gangs are often discussed but rarely investigated. In an ethnographic study that examines families, schools, and the street, sociologist Marwan Mohammed reconstructs the principles (...)

History Speaks Many Languages

by Thomas Grillot & Anne-Julie Etter [27-01-2012]
History cannot be written as if nations had always been around, and as if men had not found countless ways to ignore their frontiers. Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam invites his peers to make use (...)

Poverty Experts in the United States

About: Romain Huret, La fin de la pauvreté?, Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

by Jacques Rodriguez [26-01-2012]
Is expertise about poverty possible in a country where the phenomenon itself is deemed morally perverse? In a recent book, Romain Huret analyzes the intellectual network that crystallized around (...)

Tax Havens: A Guided Tour

An Interview with Gabriel Zucman

by Thomas Vendryes [24-01-2012]
What sums of money are hidden in tax havens? By whom? And how? Using original methodology and data that has not yet been fully utilized, Gabriel Zucman sheds new light on these questions, in the (...)

Open Data As a Key to Citizen Empowerment

An Interview with Dominique Cardon, sociologist

by Pauline Peretz & Ivan Jablonka [20-01-2012]
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, (...)

Anastasie and Massouda

by Jérôme Bourdon [19-01-2012]
How can journalists accept certain forms of censorship in a state which claims to be democratic? The following article looks at the different threats in Israel to freedom of speech, and shows the (...)

Protectionism as Internationalist Liberalism

by David Todd [17-01-2012]
Protectionism does not date from the 1930s; in fact it was invented in the nineteenth century by German, French and American theorists wary of British commercial power. The historian David Todd (...)

Is Protectionism the Solution?

by Florian Mayneris [17-01-2012]
Protectionism, a solution? Really? The economic crisis may not have turned the tide against liberalization, but we certainly cannot look at protectionism the same as we used (...)

Challenging Mainstream Art

About: G. Allen, Artists’ Magazines, an alternative space for art, MIT Press.

by Cristelle Terroni [13-01-2012]
Towards the end of the 1960s the dematerialized forms of conceptual art transformed the modes of art production. The advent of art works which could be printed and reproduced in the pages of (...)

Egyptian Journalists and Power

by Enrique Klaus [12-01-2012]
Any analysis of the role of the press in the democratisation of Egypt must take into account the long history between journalists and those in power since the 1952 revolution. The Egyptian press, (...)

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