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Co-edited by Laura Oso, Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Melissa Moralli: "Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration. New Mobilities and Artivism".
Laura Oso, Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Melissa Moralli (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration. New Mobilities and Artivism, Edward Elgar Publishing, 21 January 2025, 614p. ISBN: 978 1 03530 037 2 With the participation of Constance de Gourcy ("Mediterranean crossing", p.347 and "Missing in migration" with Sofia Stimmatini, p.392) and Sofia Laiz Moreira ("Social capital", p....
Read MoreBook chapter contribution, Christophe Traïni: "Mobilisations, résistances, et participation" (Les sociétés face aux défis climatiques)
TRAÏNI, Christophe, et al. Mobilisations, résistances, et participation. In Les sociétés face aux défis climatiques, Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Agnès Deboulet, Stéphanie Vermeersch (dir.), CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2024. Book synopsis: The reality of climate change is a given: the 'hard' sciences have been working for several years to account for it....
Read MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells - Speech to LCI Midi "Troops in Ukraine, is the French army prepared?
Walter Bruyère-Ostells talks to LCI Midi (Wednesday 15 January, between 12:50 and 13:10). Topic: Special Forces and their possible deployment in Ukraine.
Read MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells - Speech on France Culture "Comores: a silent protest
Interview with Walter Bruyère-Ostells on France Culture's "Cultures Monde" programme. Summary: A year after a disputed election that returned Azali Assoumani to the presidency of the Comoros for the third time, the Comorians voted again this weekend to elect their deputies and local representatives. The ballot was boycotted by the opposition, reflecting the...
Read MoreArticle by Alix Philippon: "From religious soft power to neo-patrimonialism: Sufi politics in Pakistan and beyond".
Alix Philippon, "From religious soft power to neo-patrimonialism: Sufi politics in Pakistan and beyond". Bulletin de l'Observatoire international du religieux, no. 52 [online], December 2024. Extract: "In the context of the war on terror, the geopolitical dimension of religious soft power has come to the fore in the form of issues linked to Sufism, the...
Read MoreBook co-edited by Walter Bruyère-Ostells: "Anthologie des penseurs militaires français" (Anthology of French military thinkers)
Walter Bruyère-Ostells, Hervé Drévillon and Jean-Christophe Romer (eds.), Anthologie des penseurs militaires français, Nouveau Monde éditions, 15 January 2025, 1040p. Summary: From the white plume of Henri IV to Napoleon triumphant in the sun of Austerlitz, the French imagination has been nourished by bravura moments in the history of armies to build a national military culture. The result of a...
Read MoreBook chapter, Christophe Traïni: "Convenir, mesurer, juger. Carbon accounting and the sociology of quantification".
TRAÏNI, Christophe. "Agreeing, measuring, judging. Carbon accounting and the sociology of quantification". In Expertises et argumentaires juridiques. Contribution à l'étude des procès climatiques, edited by Christel Cournil. Aix-en-Provence: DICE Éditions, 2024, p.89-107. Extract: "At a time when the news is constantly being fuelled by meteorological reports of climate disruption, the legal chronicle of the...
Read MoreArticle by Christophe Traïni: "The mobilisation of emotions and the judicialisation of protest. Climate emergency and the fight against government inaction".
TRAÏNI Christophe (2024), "Mobilisation des émotions et judiciarisation de la contestation. Urgence climatique et lutte contre l'inaction gouvernementale", Análise Social, 59(253). doi: 10.31447/202315. Abstract : This article examines how the mobilisation of emotions can be fully integrated into the repertoire of collective protest actions. To do so, the analysis must pay attention to the way in which...
Read MoreBook by Nicolas Badalassi: "La France, la guerre froide et la Méditerranée" (France, the Cold War and the Mediterranean)
Nicolas Badalassi, La France, la guerre froide et la Méditerranée. Des accords d'Évian à la Perestroïka, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 14 March 2024, 342p. Summary: In a historiography of the Cold War largely devoted to relations between the United States and the USSR, France has long been the poor relation. However, it did play an important role in the...
Read MoreBook by Nicolas Badalassi: "History of European security since 1945".
Nicolas Badalassi, Histoire de la sécurité européenne depuis 1945. De la guerre froide à la guerre en Ukraine, Armand Colin, February 2024, 256p. Summary: With the destabilisation of the Middle East, the migratory crisis, terrorist attacks, the return of the Russian threat, Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, the decade of 2010 seemed...
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