Déplacer les disciplines : le nouveau rôle des aires

Our societies appear increasingly polarized between the camp of the advocates of "de-globalization" and that of the relentless globalists. Such polarization obscures, by caricaturing it, the complexity of the challenge of human plurality and generates a dilemma, illusory to a certain extent, between the quest for generality and the consideration of particularities. In the humanities and social sciences, this dilemma takes the shape, among others, of a recurring debate about the relation between “the disciplines” and area studies. Overcoming [...]

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Martin Parr et la Goutte d’Or.

From April 2011, the 6th till July 2011, the 2nd an exhibition was presented at the Institut des Cultures d’Islam (Ici) in Paris. Named The Goutte d’Or, it showed photographs taken by the English artist Martin Parr. Its objective was to change to way citizens would look at this Parisian district that keeps being stigmatised by the medias for its immigration-, secularism-, crime- or prostitution-related issues. This paper aims to analyse the Ici’s discourses [...]