Fine faces and beautiful feathers
Despite its omnipresence in French culture and media, gastronomy has long been perceived as a minor object of study. Sociologist
In the shadow of radicalism
Fabien Truong approaches religious commitments by focusing on “Islam from below” and the tinkering that characterizes it in the shadow
The deportee who sang
“Le Verfügbar aux enfers” is a lyrical work written by Germaine Tillion in Ravensbrück in 1944. The work was never
What people?
We often speak in the name of the people, without knowing what the term, which is very ambiguous, means. According
A dark affair
In 1887, Pranzini slaughtered three women with a “true butcher’s skill”. Frédéric Chauvaud studies the crime in its relationship with
Faces of War
A total social fact, modern war no longer involves only soldiers but mobilizes all the forces, political, economic, cultural, of
Letters from an unmarried mother
Within the institutions where they were placed in the 1950s, single mothers, marginalized and repressed, sometimes had the opportunity to
Madagascar the unstable
As Madagascar elects its next president, a book looks back at the causes of the island’s chronic underdevelopment. Social inequalities
Cults and freedom
The fight against sects reveals the French reluctance towards pluralism and religion. According to Étienne Ollion, the sectarian phenomenon must
The art of dressing up the facts
Is there a right of the first occupant? Delving into the medieval theory of possession, P. Thévenin shows how jurists