Books

The exhibition of outdoor art works in public areas leads to two main consequences. On the one hand the site where the work is displayed gains a new importance, on the other ...

Jean-Loup Amselle, anthropologue atypique, volontiers critique à l’égard de sa propre discipline, continue de poursuivre son analyse des pathologies de l’Occident et de déconstruire les illusions qui nous portent à fuir un ...

Spatial planning seemed to be out of fashion but this very stimulating overview, based on case studies that focus on various European countries, shows that the deep transformation of territorial planning has ...

With her book Close up at a distance. Mapping, technology and politics, Laura Kurgan, Professor of architecture at Columbia University in New York city, interrogates the political, technical and ethical debates around ...

This article analyzes the different ways of conducting ethnographic investigations that are proposed in the book Du civil au politique. Ethnographies du vivre-ensemble by Mathieu Berger, Daniel Cefaï and Carole Gayet-Viaud. Firstly, ...

Cet ouvrage dirigé par Daniel Céfaï réunit différents articles traduits de l'anglais qui illustrent chacun une facette de l'enquête ethnographique. Ils sont introduits par un article, écrit par un auteur à chaque ...

Science sociale rare et à fort ticket d’entrée, la linguistique dans son interaction avec les autres sciences sociales apporte beaucoup à la connaissance des sociétés — tant d’un point de vue théorique ...

Assessing science means assessing scientists. Some scientists systematically refuse all types of assessments, in the name of academic freedom. Others, such as the authors of this book, approve of assessment, though not ...

According to Hartmut Rosa, late modernity is characterized by an insidious exhortation towards speed. However, his latest work seems prey to this exhortation too, inducing a palpable tension between the messenger and ...

Alexis Metzger propose de poser un regard sur l’histoire climatique des Pays-Bas au temps du petit âge glaciaire à travers la lecture des productions picturales de l’époque. Il interroge, dans un premier ...

Succeeding to the previous community of the rather rough but solidary borough of Cadenet in the Luberon, a variegated new world has taken place, where individuals, social categories and mental universes coexist ...

In this book, Jacques Lucan takes us through the complexities that underlie large real estate projects, in Paris and other large cities, and interrogates the issues involved (diversity, sustainability…) as well as ...

The book edited by Julien Talpin and Yves Sintomer is a good opportunity to analyse the plurality of participatory scales. The Poitou-Charentes region is often considered as the cradle of participatory democracy ...

At a time of debates on immigration and integration and on the role played by the family in these processes, Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration provides new data for ...

In 2012, “Raisons pratiques” published an issue that compiled several case studies showing the relevance of a pragmatist approach of public life. The critical review of this work gives us the opportunity ...