Scholarly production of orgasm
Based on a history of vibrators and female masturbation techniques, Rachel Maines’ work shows how, in scholarly discourses and in
Sarkozyan immigration policy
In a deeply original collective book, twenty-three contributors analyze the methods of processing foreigners in France. Their study, both exploration
Statistics in company
Statistics policy Statistics self -criticism, by Jacky Fayolle A collection of articles restores the contribution of Alain Desrosières to the
Ambiguities and colonial accommodation
In a study-try that refuses the “ colonization Assuminating misdeeds and benefits, the historian Marc Michel underlines the fundamental ambiguity
After the Stiglitz report, how to measure wealth?
For more than ten years, sociologist Dominique Méda has criticized the inadequacies of GDP. One of the first, she underlined
An economy with a human face
By proposing to substitute for the concept of economy a new conception of production and the exchanges which it calls
The power of images
Founding book of visual studies, Iconology of Wtj Mitchell offers a new science of the image, understood as a general
Mao and the great disorder of the cultural revolution
According to Roderick McFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, the cultural revolution was more political than properly cultural and must be replaced
The image of the suburbs
Mobilizing sociology, political science and discourse analysis, Julie Sedel reports on the construction of the media representation of the suburbs.
China and its democratic fictions
What can literature teach us about the democratic experience of China in XXe century ? In an ambitious book, Sebastian