Article by Dorota Dakowska: "The presidential election in Poland (2025): the force of law or the law of force?

Dorotha Dakowska, "Poland's presidential election (2025): the force of law or the law of force?", Jus Politicum blog, 10 June 2025. Summary: In the wake of the 2025 presidential election, this article explains the polarisation of the Polish political field and its gradual right-wingisation, based on the example of Polish...

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Article by Sylvia Girel, Françoise Thibault and Pascal Liévaux: "Dynamics of incentive programmes for cultural research".

Sylvia Girel, Françoise Thibault and Pascal Liévaux, "Dynamiques des programmes incitatifs pour la recherche Culture", Culture et Recherche, no. 148, spring-summer 2025, pp. 78-83. Sylvia Girel presents the Cultural and Creative Industries Research Programme (PEPR ICCARE) and research-creation. Issue summary: To mark the 40th anniversary of the...

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Book in tribute to Pierre Vergès: "From large numbers to singularities: methodological experiments in sociology".

Pierre Vergès, Des grands nombres aux singularités : Expérimentations méthodologiques en sociologie, published by Hermann, 25 June 2025, 358p. Pierre Vergès, a graduate of the Arts et Métiers engineering school and holder of a doctorate in economics, was director of research at the CNRS. He successively directed the Centre de recherche en écologie sociale (CRES) at the EHESS in Marseille, then the Laboratoire...

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Article by Nicolas Doduik: "Embarrassment: museum professionals grappling with the persistence of cultural inequalities. The case of Mucem".

Nicolas Doduik, "L'embarras : les professionnelles des musées aux prises avec la persistance des inégalités culturelles. Le cas du Mucem", Culture & Musées, n°45, 2025, pp.188-194. Reference : Entre renouvellement et reproduction institutionnels, les professionnelles des musées à l'épreuve de l'évolution des pratiques culturelles : Le cas du Mucem. Doctoral thesis in sociology,...

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Book chapter, Rémi Carcélès: "Entrepreneurs of the Kurdish cause in France and their supporters".

Marie Bassi, Pauline Brücker, Olivier Clochard, Helène Le Bail, Clara Lecadet (dir.), Exil & politique. Résistances, engagements et mobilisations en migration, Éditions du Cavalier Bleu, May 2025, 368.p Chapter by Rémi Carcélès: "Les entrepreneurs de la cause kurde en France et leurs soutiens" Book summary: Social, political and media representations of the Kurdish...

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Saïd Belguidoum and Constance De Gourcy (eds.): "La Méditerranée traversée. Narrative, sensitive figures of mobility".

Saïd Belguidoum, Constance De Gourcy (dir.), La Méditerranée traversée. Récit, figures sensibles de la mobilité, Presses Universitaires de Provence, May 2025, 274p. With the participation of : Maria Elena Buslacchi, Eleni Demetriou, Andrea Gallinal Arias, Léna Haziza, Sylvie Mazzella, Melissa Moralli, Léa Nivoix, Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Marie-Pierre Ulloa Back cover: This book is a...

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Book by Jonathan Hassine: "Soldiers and the State in Lebanon at war".

Jonathan Hassine, Les soldats et l'État dans le Liban en guerre, Presses Universitaires de France, April 2025, 496p. Back cover Contrary to popular belief, the Lebanese army and military were not powerless spectators of the war that tore Lebanon apart from 1975 to 1990. Thanks to sources written in Arabic, English and French, this...

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Benoît Pouget, journal article: "The Army of Pasteurians: Militarisation of Hygiene and Hybrid Disease Control Measures in Fernand Visbecq's 1919 Typhus Mission in French Algeria".

Benoît Pouget, "The Army of Pasteurians: Militarisation of Hygiene and Hybrid Disease Control Measures in Fernand Visbecq's 1919 Typhus Mission in French Algeria", Social History of Medicine, 7 November 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae058 Abstract During mass demobilisation following the armistice of 11 November 1918, colonial troops gradually returned to their cantonments. Algeria hosted a military penal colony...

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Benoît Pouget, magazine article: "Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946-54)".

Benoît Pouget, "Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946-54)", Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 10, n°2, p.44-57. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.10.2.4 Abstract This article shows how the medicalisation of death in wartime can be seen as integral to a broader medicalisation of war that it both stems from and sustains. More specifically, it highlights the pivotal role...

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