The obese between glory and stigma

From the medieval condemnation of gluttony to the contemporary obsession with overweight, corpulence has always aroused criticism, while being part

Amalgams on Amap

According to François Jarrige, criticism of agricultural self -sufficiency in cities, published by Roland Vidal and André Fleury in The

The second sex in the front row

Not only have women always worked, but they have also been fighting for a long time to reach positions of

Summer districts

The life of ideas is on vacation. We will resume our rhythm of publication from August 23. We offer you,

Civil servants in big weather

The more or less strong ties between administrations and political power often lead to purification phases during regime changes. The

What the images show

Exhibition commissioner Images factoryPhilippe Descola offers an innovative approach to the pictorial representations present on the five continents. The anthropologist

Framing question

Not all lives are lucky to be looked at as such, and some, the most precarious, are lost in indifference.

70’s, political years!

Against a vulgate which associates the post-68 with hedonism, the sociologist Lilian Mathieu draws up a panorama of protest movements

Growth, education and environment

In this interview, Philippe Aghion, professor of economics at Harvard University, returns to the contributions of new economic theories of