Dilek Yankaya, Lucas Faure and Nathalie Ferrière - Revue Critique Internationale "Confessional actors in development".
2022

Often understood at an international level, these actors are studied here in their relations with the State, based on an empirical and localised approach. Because they are involved in development policies, they become partners tolerated by those in power, according to different logics of 'discharge'. While their scope of action is carefully negotiated with...

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Mohamed Tozy: "Working with Max Weber", edited by Jean-Pierre Grossein and Béatrice Hibou
2022

This book examines the heuristic fruitfulness of Weber's approach for today's social sciences, at a time when the latter are once again questioning their foundation and their object. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of Max Weber's work at a time when references to it have become more numerous but more often than not conventional, and when the...

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Claire Bénit-Gbaffou. "Producing Planning Knowledge: How Professional PhD Candidates Bridge Research-Practice Divides."

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou & Glyn Williams - Urban Forum (2022) This paper addresses an important, but under-studied, pathway for knowledge production in the field of urban planning: the practitioner engaging with academia through the writing of a PhD. Drawing on our own experiences of doctoral mentoring, in dialogue with PhD candidates, we reflect on the questions and challenges this...

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