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Designed for photographers, artists and urbanists whose work address notions of urban space and culture, the international Summer School provides a highly intensive two-week practical and theoretical training in key aspects of urban visual practice. The course aims to offer participants a wide range of relevant skills resulting in the production of a photography portfolio [...]
Contemporary to the growing place of visual cultures, many photographical projects become popular today through aerial views such as those offered by Google Earth. In this paper, Alex MacLean’s « Up on the roof : New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces », recently published in France, is discussed and put into perspective. Although it shows the interest of a fifth urban façade, the book is disappointing in its overhanging photographies that remind us of the opposition between the map and [...]
Ce colloque sera, près de dix ans après le colloque « La publicisation de la science » et la publication de l’ouvrage (La publicisation de la science. Exposer, communiquer, débattre, publier, vulgariser, sous la direction d’Isabelle Pailliart, PUG, 2005), l’occasion de produire des analyses sur les mutations et sur les innovations dans ce domaine. Son orientation prend [...]
This book review is an opportunity to look back on the contribution of pragmatist sociology. The case studies discussed by the authors allow us to reflect on the complexity of a school of thought that has applications in a number of other areas, including the study of controversies and public issues. Through epistemological and methodological considerations, this paper discusses the relevance of a microsociological approach in the study of controversies. [...]
Orbán Viktor, the prime minister of Hungary, is planning to visit China this spring. His visit will come a year after the criminal investigation against Agnes Heller — the best-known living Hungarian philosopher — and several colleagues in philosophy and history for possible embezzlement was dismissed for ” lack of crime” of research grants following what the [...]
La parution récente de deux livres concernant les risques dits naturels, associés aux inondations, incite à comparer les approches systémiques et non systémiques que mobilisent les chercheurs sur la question. D’un côté, nous avons une lecture qui continue à valoriser la place de l’aléa dans l’interprétation des dommages, au moins dans un premier temps. De l’autre, nous constatons une approche délibérément plurifactorielle, qui mobilise explicitement et immédiatement l’analyse systémique. L’article montre les limites et la complémentarité de ces deux [...]
What is the current relevance of a critical social theory ? By broadly reconstructing the path that the Frankfurt School has taken from its origins in the late 1920s until today and with a historical as well as an intellectual point of view, Durand-Gasselin points out the contemporary theoretical issues that are raised by a critical attitude towards the present time. [...]
This article considers the core aspects of interdisciplinarity. After examining briefly what this commonly-used notion implies, we aim to show that interdisciplinarity, while possibly tempering specialization within the fields of science and social sciences, is not an all-new concept, and proves to be a difficult task, as Durkheim and Simmel have shown in their day in sociology. Indeed, interdisciplinarity does not conceive science as a knowledge by object and by concept, which implies a reduction of what it seeks [...]
À la faveur de l'expansion démocratique du début des années 1990 avec son cortège de libertés et l'adoption du capitalisme, l’administration publique béninoise, héritière d’un régime marxiste-léniniste, s’est retrouvée confrontée à la recrudescence d’actes de prédation économique, de mauvaise gouvernance et plus particulièrement de corruption lors des privatisations des entreprises publiques. Inscrite dans une crise générale de l’État, crise ayant favorisé l’émergence de formes de mobilité politique négociée et le clientélisme électoral, la corruption quotidienne s’est développée comme système [...]
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