We are on summer leave until mid-August. Here is a selection of a few protruding texts of the year. See you soon !
Tests:
■ What the extreme right does to the world
The new face that the extreme right is trying to give itself in France is misleading: everywhere when it is in power, as it is or has been in certain states of the world, it discriminates, bruised and impoverished.
■ Murray Bookchin: down the hierarchy !
by Bertrand Vaillant
Anarchist environmentalist, thinker of the social causes of the destructive confrontation between our societies and nature, and theorist of a libertarian municipalism to be built today, Murray Bookchin is an essential figure in political ecology.
■ Iran: War against women
by Marie Ladier-Fouladi
Actresses of secularization and resistance, the Iranian women have been the target of the regime since 1979. It is on this backdrop that the movement “ Woman, life, freedom ».
■ “” I hurt, doctor ». General practitioners in the face of pain
by Joséphine Eberhart
Far from the centers dedicated to their specific management, the pain is first expressed in the office of the general practitioner. How are complaints deciphered there and the categorized pain ?
■ Let’s sing together. A sociology of karaoke
by Christophe Gaudin
In the West, we throw ourselves into the water to sing alone at the microphone in front of an audience of foreigners. In Asia, we sing together, with friends or colleagues, to create a haven, a bubble of self. Each company its valves !
■ Climate generation ?
by Laurent Lardeux
Between the “ boomers », Undeading consumers of the post-war economic boom, and the new anxious and mobilized generation in the face of the climatic repercussions of this same boom, is the cleavage really a generation conflict ?
■ Literary prizes in bookstores
by Olivier Bessard-Banquy
How literary prizes become bestsellers ? Olivier Bessard-Banquy deconstructs the role of booksellers in the constitution of the economic value of the works awarded by Goncourt.
Interviews:
■ The physical and mental health of the Palestinians. Interview with Rita Giacaman
While mental health is generally evaluated using objectives health indicators, these measures do not take into account the complex impact of violence on the life of Palestinians.
■ Implicit sexism. Interview with Toni Schmader
Whether at work, at school or in personal relationships, implicit sexist prejudices are always very present. In addition, despite the numerous attempts to prevent stereotypes and their effects, they continue to affect the performance, preferences and opinions of individuals.
■ Musical comedy or “ succession »Feelings. Interview with Bernard Jeannot-Guérin
Heiress of the operetta, the musical combines popular music with ultra-Contemporains themes, which does not exclude the use of clichés, even kitsch. Because the musical has its own aesthetics. In short, this slight genre is not to be taken lightly.
Reviews:
■ Mexicas by themselves
About: Camilla Townsend, The fifth sun: another story of the AztecsAlbin Michel,
by Damien Larrouqué
While opened at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac an exhibition dedicated to the Mexicans, better known as Azteques, the historian and linguist Camilla Townsend traces the epic of this flamboyant civilization, taking into account the chronicles in Nahuatl.
■ The evaporation of women
About: Hélène FRAPPAT, Gaslighting or the art of silencing womenThe observatory,
by Tanguy Grannis
Patriarchalism was largely formed by erasing the voices of women, even more by pushing them to fade themselves. Cinema allows you to unmask this misogynistic strategy.
■ Consent, a harmful concept ?
About: Catharine A. Mackinnon, The rape redefined. Towards equality, against consentFlammarion
by Johanna Lenne-Cornuez
Consent is not a relevant concept to judge sexual violence, explains C. Mackinnon, who proposes to understand rape as a relationship of inequality and domination. But this definition poses other legal problems.
■ Love is a rebellious speech
About: Christine Detroz, Crush. Fragments of the new romantic discourseFlammarion
by Christophe Giraud
Based on a collective survey, Christine Detrez proposes to deconstruct the term “crush” and the way in which her social senses shed light on the formation of the couple and sentimental education among young people from 12 to 25 years old.
■ This is not a pope
About: Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, History of Papese Jeanne. An investigation at the heart of the textsLyon University Press
By Bénédicte Sère
Forged at XIIIe Century, the history of Popess Jeanne has long maintained the myth of a brief exception to the ecclesiastical rule. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani shows how the myth calls into question the accession of women to the priesthood and the fallibility of pontifical power.
■ The art of undecided
About: Pauline Martin, Blur and photography, story of a meeting (1676-1985)University Press of Rennes
By Sarah Troche
Do not oppose sharpness and vagueness, as if the latter was only technical defect or lack of control. On the contrary, the history of photography shows that it has been the subject of a meticulous development.
■ An environmental history of art
About: Estelle Zhong mengual, Learn to see. The point of view of the livingSouth acts
by Agnès Foiret-Collet
We do not really see the living: this is the thesis of Estelle Zhong mengual which, in a text mixing personal observations, analysis of visual and literary works, and invites us to bring another form of attention to the natural world.
■ Buck up !
About: Laurent Bihl, A popular story of bistrosNew world editions
by Robert Beck
Revolutionary cafes, reales of the suburbs, cabarets with bright balls, branches open all night: the bistro has a rich history that tells us about entertainment and seditions, but also the solitude of areas now landlocked.
■ Organic pioneers
About: Jean-Philippe Martin, Ecologists. Agricultural policy, environment and society since the 1960sVallon field
by Matthieu Calame
Throughout the XXe century, environmental currents in the agricultural world have campaigned for organic production and the defense of small workers. The story of these “ Environmental farmers »Says the future contract which has established itself agriculture and society.
■ First night
About: Aïcha Limbada, Wedding night. A story of conjugal intimacyThe discovery
By Juliette Zanetta
Once the marriage has been celebrated, how to consume it ? Between silence, ignorance and apprehension, the young spouses of the XIXe century have rites and places to be “ Finally alone ». With desire, but not without violence.