Book 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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Book coordinated by Sébastien Oliveau and Yoann Doignon: "Global Settlement Dynamics: How People Inhabit the World".

Yoann Doignon and Sébastien Oliveau. Global Settlement Dynamics. ISTE, Wiley, 20 December 2024. Print ISBN: 9781789451825 | Online ISBN: 9781394340590 | DOI: 10.1002/9781394340590 With a chapter by Quentin Godoye, Élise Lévêque and Dieynaba Ndour: "Population Projections on a Global Scale". Summary: There are currently over eight billion people on Earth: how...

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Sophie Daviaud's entry in the "Political Dictionary of Latin America".

Daviaud, Sophie. "Human Rights. Dictionnaire politique de l'Amérique latine, edited by Marie-Hélène Sa Vilas Boas et al, Éditions de l'IHEAL, 2024, p. 194-201, https://doi.org/10.4000/12tkg. Dictionary summary: What does Latin America have to say to the social sciences? This dictionary summarises the notions and concepts that are commonly used to account for politics in Latin America and the...

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Book by Claire Miot: "Le débarquement de Provence, août 1944" (The Provence landings, August 1944)

Claire Miot, Le débarquement de Provence, août 1944, co-published by Passés Composés, Ministère des Armées and ECPAD, 21 August 2024, 192p. ISBN: 979-10-404-0833-8 At 8am on 15 August 1944, Allied troops landed in Provence. The American army, British commandos and a rearmed French army led by General de Lattre de Tassigny set off...

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Book edited by Simon Mangon et al: "La fabrique de la thèse. A collective guide to a personal exercise".

Edited by : Béatrice GARAPON, Cécile JEANMOUGIN, Alice JUDELL, Simon MANGON Karthala, Hors Collection, 352p. - 20 June 2024 - ISBN: 9782384091874 While it is difficult to state precisely what a 'thesis' in the social sciences is, this book chooses to see it as a learning experience. This little guide to the...

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Book by Louna Hassaini Moussaoui: "Memory is selective anyway. Intergenerational transmission of the memory of the Algerian War in French families of Algerian origin".

Louna Hassaini Moussaoui, L'Harmattan, 27 June 2024, 186p. Since Algeria's independence, the memory of the war of national liberation has been the subject of constant analysis in history and other social science disciplines. However, almost sixty years after the Evian Accords, no study has focused on the transmission of the memory of the Algerian...

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Book by Constance De Gourcy: "L'impensé de l'absence. (En)quête sur le lien social à distance".

Constance De Gourcy, Collection Migrations - PUFR, June 2024, 156p. This short but dense work, which is the result of a dissertation for a post-graduate diploma (Habilitation à diriger des recherches), aims to fill a gap in French-language sociological literature. Indeed, since the seminal work of sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad, the term "absence" has been absent from research, with the exception of works on the...

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Denouncing discrimination at university: between silence, revelation and reporting

Défenseur des droits, Bozec Géraldine, Blassel Romane, Cécile Rodrigues, Laura Schuft, Christelle Hamel, Karimi Hanane, Weiss Pierre-Olivier, Ludovic Morand, Marguerite Cognet, Fabrice Dhume, 24 April 2024, 39p. Based on a quantitative and qualitative survey of students' and staff members' experiences of discrimination at university, this report analyses the factors and mechanisms that lead to institutional reporting of discrimination...

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Citizens monitoring public action. Belgium, France, Spain (2010)

Jessy Bailly, published by Editions du Septentrion, 2024, 396p. Can representative democracy still be reformed? This is the task set by groups of local activists in France, Spain and Belgium who are trying to monitor the actions of their elected representatives, in the context of the crisis in the political system.

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Those who can still walk and smile

Océane Perona, published by Julliard, 2024, 147 pages Héloïse sleeps badly and drinks too much coffee. In her office at the Violences group, the days go by and the minutes of rape victims' interviews pile up on the table. Every day, Héloïse has the feeling that she's working her socks off for nothing, since most of her investigations...

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