Transitional justice in South Korea
Dedicated to the massacres perpetrated on the island of Jeju in 1948, a work testifies to the continued expansion of
Money and value
Twenty years after the publication of Viviana Zelizer’s book on the social meaning of money, this interdisciplinary file presents an
The use of law behind bars
Beyond the common representation of prison as a place of lawlessness, Yasmine Bouagga delivers a fascinating investigation into the uses
Bourdieu, lesson on method
The first two years of Bourdieu’s teaching at the Collège de France constitute less of a general introduction to his
The rules of improv
Starting from the experiments of three European improvised music ensembles at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Matthieu Saladin
On linguistic imperialism
English, a new world language, dominates after French in XVIIIe century. As a sociologist, Pascale Casanova shows that the use
1498 or the other “New World”
From XVIe century, Europe and India begin to trade. Their connected history comes in various forms, including the cultivation of
Jewish social sciences
From the Jewish Scientific Institute (YIVO), founded in 1925, to the collection of books “ Polish Jewishness », created after
The benefit of the doubt in Muslim law
In a recent book, Harvard law professor Intisar Rabb discusses what she calls “the criterion of doubt » in Muslim
Another Zola
It is customary to say that naturalist novels strive to decipher the world. An iconoclastic thesis supports the opposite: Zola