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Michael C. Behrent

Traductions de cet auteur (32)

Essays

Fighting for a Fair Wage

The Changing Demands of the Chinese Working Class

by Chloé Froissart & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 7 March

This essay analyzes the major strike that occurred at the Nanhai Honda factory in Guangdong province in 2010, as well as subsequent strikes that followed its example. It traces the evolution of (...)

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Artistic Beauty as a Political Weapon

Contemporary Art from 1960 to 2010

by Vanina Géré & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 6 December 2012

Can art have an impact on sociopolitical reality? What matters most? Political content or aesthetic qualities? These questions have haunted contemporary art since the late sixties. Yet some (...)

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Essays

Citizen Balibar

An Interview with Étienne Balibar

by Nicolas Duvoux & Pascal Sévérac & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 26 November 2012

Who comes after the subject? According to Étienne Balibar, it is the citizen—grasped not in her isolated sovereignty, but as a member of an emerging community. Yet the equality of rights that (...)

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The Day Income Gaps Were Finally Capped

by Jean Gadrey & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 15 October 2012

As we enter the twenty-second century, the need for capping income gaps to guarantee social cohesion and preserve the environment is no longer challenged. Yet only a century ago, this idea seemed (...)

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Reviews

Who Will Write Our History?

About: S. Kassow, Qui écrira notre histoire ? Les archives secrètes du ghetto de Varsovie, Grasset, 2011

by Audrey Kichelewski & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 3 October 2012

Until now, the Warsaw Ghetto archives were known to only a few specialists. The American historian Samuel Kassow presents them in a new light—as the work of a team whose mission was to describe (...)

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Essays

Why We Abolished Marriage

A Private “Eutopia”

by François de Singly & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 24 September 2012

Approved in 2048, the abolition of marriage turned upside down not only the sexual organization of society but also the idea of lineage. This historical transformation was carried forth by a (...)

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Essays

The Age of Youth

An Interview with Ludivine Bantigny, Historian

par Thomas Grillot & traduit par Michael C. Behrent, le 10 juillet 2012

Youth has all the trappings of the universal, eternal value—one that is especially mobilized when there is a need for change. Looking at its history is delving into the construction of a category, (...)

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Essays

The Ethnography of Disasters

An Interview with Sandrine Revet

by David Bornstein & Florent Guénard & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 18 June 2012

For Sandrine Revet, we need to move beyond statistics to see the ethnographic side of disasters. It is a necessary step if we are to understand their effects not only on public policies, but also (...)

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Essays

A New Indigenous Question in France’s Overseas Territories?

by Benoît Trépied & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 13 June 2012

Whether they live in French Guyana, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, or Polynesia, indigenous peoples have been largely forgotten during France’s 2011 celebration of its “Year of the (...)

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Reviews

Promises, Promises

About: Hanoch Sheinman (ed.), Promises and Agreements. Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press.

by Vincent Boyer & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 8 June 2012

We promise a lot and we are promised a lot. Promises lie at the heart of our social life. They are also the foundation of electoral democracies, in which political programs take the form of (...)

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Essays

Is the Middle Class a Victim of Taxation?

by Antoine Bozio & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 28 May 2012

What do we really know about the costs and benefits of redistribution for the middle class? Two recent studies demonstrate that while it is certainly heavily taxed, so is the vast majority of the (...)

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Reviews

Dutchmen and Javanese: Connected History

About: Romain Bertrand, L’Histoire à parts égales, Seuil.

by Philippe Minard & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 19 May 2012

By reconstructing the historical circumstances in which the first contacts between the Dutch, the Malays, and the Javanese occurred at the turn of the seventeenth century, Romain Bertrand offers (...)

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Reviews

The Numbers of Crime

About: Ph. Robert et R. Zauberman, Mesurer la délinquance, Presses de Sciences Po

by Bilel Benbouzid & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 8 May 2012

When it comes to delinquency, the press, as well as political discourse, tends to emphasize the “crime angle” over the “sociological angle.” Moreover, when quantitative data is used in public debate, (...)

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Reviews

A So-Called Silence

About: Hasia R. Diner, We Remember with Reverence and Love. American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962, New York University Press.

by Simon Perego & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 4 May 2012

The American historian Hasia Diner sets out to dispel a “myth:” it is mistaken, she argues, to claim that American Jews showed little interest in the Holocaust before the 1970s. This so-called (...)

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Giving Gifts

Debate between Anne Bory, Nicolas Guilhot, Sabine Rozier and Olivier Zunz

by Pauline Peretz & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 20 April 2012

There is a long-standing tradition of contrasting the French and American models of philanthropy. According to four scholars invited to discuss the matter for Books and Ideas, this contrast, (...)

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Reviews

The Soviet Union: A Shaky Welfare State

About: Dorena Caroli, Histoire de la protection sociale en Union soviétique (1917-1939), L’Harmattan.

by Grégory Dufaud & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 10 April 2012

Though the Soviet system’s ambitions were initially universalistic, the system of social protection that it established quickly proved discriminatory and insufficiently generous. In a recent book, (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

The Fight against Corruption

Interviews with Philippe Aghion and William Bourdon

by David Bornstein & Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 6 April 2012

Democracies must be able to promote economic innovation. In France, however, the media and the judicial system are not independent from the state and public policies are not evaluated. The (...)

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Essays

What Images Show

An Interview with Philippe Descola

by Philippe Simay & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 5 April 2012

The curator of the recent La fabrique des images exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, anthropologist Philippe Descola offers a new approach of pictorial representations on the five (...)

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Essays

How Should Executives Be Paid?

by Claire Célérier & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 13 March 2012

The explosion of executive pay in recent decades in all Western countries has been the object of considerable criticism. But it has also given rise to an important debate among economists. A (...)

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Reviews

The 993^rd Man

About: N. Mariot & C. Zalc, Face à la persécution. 991 Juifs dans la guerre, Odile Jacob.

by Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 9 March 2012

By using statistics to study the attitudes of Jews in the face of persecution in the French town of Lens between 1940 and 1944, two historians offer a quantitative sociological analysis of the (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Islam and the Republic: Towards a Reasonable Accommodation

An Interview with John Bowen

by David Bornstein & Pauline Peretz & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 2 March 2012

In France, Islamic institutions follow the Republic’s rules, respect the legal and political system, but suffer from the fact that the principle of religious equality is contradicted by popular (...)

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Essays

J14 in Tel-Aviv

A Different Kind of Protest Movement?

by Sylvaine Bulle & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 28 February 2012

Are the demands of indignados of all countries fundamentally the same, or does each movement have its distinctive style? For Sylvaine Bulle, Israel’s J14 movement must be understood as a critique (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Housing: Helping Those Who Really Need It

An Interview with Fanny Bugeja

by David Bornstein & Pauline Peretz & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 24 February 2012

It is neither simple nor cheap for French people to find housing, especially if they are young. This fuels social inequalities and recent programs, with their emphasis on homeownership, have made (...)

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Essays

Pluralism, Values, and the European Judge

by Pierre Brunet & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 21 February 2012

Far from being natural, the compatibility between the legal orders of the European Union and member states is the result of arrangements and decisions through which judges ensure the preeminence (...)

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The Empirical Sociology of Critique

An Interview with Luc Boltanski

by Nicolas Duvoux & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 14 February 2012

Sociologist Luc Boltanski situates his most recent publications and their main concepts within his broader intellectual trajectory, examining critical sociology and the sociology of critique, and (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Getting Employment Going Again

An Interview with Philippe Askenazy

by Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 10 February 2012

If we want to adjust to the world the crisis has thrust us in, we will have to stop blaming unemployment on the “French Model.” For economist Philippe Askenazy, we need to shift from a vision of (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Reforming the French Police

An Interview with Fabien Jobard, sociologist

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 3 February 2012

In their discussion of crime and the best ways to curb it, French politicians have relied on a crude opposition between “the culture of results” and neighborhood policing, a doctrine whose American (...)

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Reviews

Gangs of Paris or Thereabout

About: Marwan Mohammed, La formation des bandes, PUF.

by Michel Kokoreff & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 31 January 2012

Youth gangs are often discussed but rarely investigated. In an ethnographic study that examines families, schools, and the street, sociologist Marwan Mohammed reconstructs the principles (...)

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Reviews

Poverty Experts in the United States

About: Romain Huret, La fin de la pauvreté?, Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

by Jacques Rodriguez & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 26 January 2012

Is expertise about poverty possible in a country where the phenomenon itself is deemed morally perverse? In a recent book, Romain Huret analyzes the intellectual network that crystallized around (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Are we Represented?

An interview with Loïc Blondiaux

by Emilie Frenkiel & Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 6 January 2012

The indignados movement signals people’s current dissatisfaction as regards political representation. Though pessimistic as to the political outlets of that mobilization, French political (...)

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Reviews

Participating Is Not Enough

About: Nina Eliasoph, Making Volunteers. Civic Life after Welfare’s End, 2011

by Julien Talpin & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 5 January 2012

In the United States, empowerment strategies emphasizing commitments that are brief, informal, and fun have proved tone deaf to the political importance of associations. If civic engagement is to (...)

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Reviews

Economics: a Cure for Pessimism

About: A. Delaigue et S. Ménia, Nos phobies économiques : ces peurs que l’économiste guérit mieux qu’un psy, Pearson Education.

by Emmanuel Bétry & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 22 December 2011

In a book devoted to economic anxieties in France, two economists well known in the blogosphere try to make their field accessible while conveying its (...)

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