Birth of globalized trade
Looking at the daily functioning of an average business in the XVIIIe century, Francesca Trivellato describes the establishment of intercultural
Women on the move
Neither a passerby nor a pedestrian, the stroller has been left out of the history books. However, strolling is linked
Small arrangements with violence
By approaching incest as a practice rather than as a founding prohibition, would anthropology have more chance of understanding it?
The international police force
Around a hundred gendarmes have been organized since the end of the XVIIIe century. The diffusion of these polices with
For an impure theater
Julien Gosselin is a director. With his company If you could lick my hearthe notably created in 2013 the Elementary
Going wild
Based on the key notions of environmental thinking in the United States, which are borderthere wilderness and savagery, William Cronon
By the fire
La Vie des idées suspends its activities during these holidays. We will resume our publication schedule on Wednesday, December 28.
Geography of the struggle
The “Occupy” movements have brought to the fore the importance, often neglected, of the spatial dimension of social movements. A
The fiction of common worlds
Our world is not immediately common, but fiction works to weave the links. For Maylis de Kerangal, imagination brings together
The city and what it eats
“Feeding cities requires gargantuan efforts, which arguably have more physical and social impacts on our lives and our planet than