Marie Houllemare’s Justices d’Empire. La répression dans les colonies françaises au 18e siècle examines how justice served as a key instrument in consolidating the French colonial empire. Using transnational archives, she sheds ...
Bernard Lahire's recent publication on the fundamental structures of human societies defends a number of epistemological and theoretical propositions, some of which we think are worthy of debate. Here we set out ...
Bernard Lahire's recent publication on the fundamental structures of human societies is a major contribution to the social sciences. This article details his epistemological and theoretical proposals on the production of knowledge ...
Dulac's collective work is theoretically ambitious in nature, as it proposes a syncretism between various points of view on the social: realism and constructivism, determinism of social structures and freedom of individual ...
The article reviews and discusses Dulac's proposals For a Science of the Social. The review is accompanied by comments from the book's authors.
In this book published in 2020, Robert Boyer keeps a diary of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to make its effects on societies intelligible. The author emphasizes that the pandemic has completely ...
The smartphone has infused our lifestyles to become a ubiquitous actant. As a true spatial technology, it has also transformed how individuals cope with space. But what meaning do we give to ...
This article reviews the book L’espace public artisanal by Thomas Riffaud (2020). The book offers an interesting point of view by focusing on the figure of the « artisan », a citizen ...
Reading the book “Where am I?” by Bruno Latour convinces that, at least as much as the ecological stake of the planet, it is indeed, in its fullness, the question of inhabiting ...
Rhythm is certainly one of the concrete shapes of time. The Manifesto for a Politics of Rhythm develops a convincing argument on the power of the rhythmic approach to confront the pathologies ...
Political ecology has gained considerable ideological and intellectual ascendancy in contemporary Western democracies. Having brought about a devastating, and perhaps irreparable, destruction of the earth's ecosystems, leaving the most terrible ecological footprint ...
John May and Jean-Pierre Guengant have been producing and exploiting the demographics of sub-Saharan Africa for more than 20 years. In this book, they synthesize the results of their investigations and research ...
How did we become consumers ? Athony Galluzzo explores the conversion of Westerners to consumerism during the 19th and 20th centuries. In this transdisciplinary approach, he highlights the significant social mutations induced ...
Geographer, researcher and trainer at CREFAD Auvergne as well as Associate researcher at the UMR Territoires of Clermont-Ferrand, he is specialized in social and cultural geography. He is currently interested in questions ...
Bruce Begout is a philosopher but also a novelist. Lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, member of the Sciences, Philosophie, Humanités Department (EA 4574), he has written several books on the exploration ...
