Susannah Dale

Susannah est originaire de la région de Surrey, dans le sud de l’Angleterre. Elle a fait ses études à l’Université de Manchester (langue et littérature françaises et espagnoles, 1995-1999), puis un Master à l’Université de Bath (Interprétation et Traduction, 2005-2006). Elle a vécu au Chili, en France, au Japon et en Espagne, et elle habite depuis 4 ans à San Sébastien au Pays basque. Elle travaille en tant que traductrice (FR/ES>EN) depuis 2006, et se spécialise dans la politique et la philosophie.

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The “Ambiguities” of Irène Némirovsky

About : A. Kershaw, Before Auschwitz. Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France, Routledge.

by Olivier Philipponnat & translated by Susannah Dale, 18 April

After being readmitted to French literary heritage following the international success of Suite française (2004), Irène Némirovsky’s work provides a unique insight into the intellectual landscape of (...)

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The Suspension of Meaning

An Interview with Jean Starobinski

by Sarah Al-Matary & translated by Susannah Dale, 28 January

Creating connections has been the aim of Jean Starobinski’s work for more than half a century. His body of work is large and shifting, created in response to life, lying somewhere between the (...)

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The Creation of Defence in China

Revisiting the Trial of the Gang of Four

by Judith Bout & translated by Susannah Dale, 17 December 2012

The trial of the Gang of Four, which included Mao Zedong’s wife, took place after the end of the Cultural Revolution, during the winter of 1980-81. In the West, it is usually seen as a show trial; (...)

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Separations: The Female Perspective

About: François de Singly, Separated. Living Through a Break-Up, Armand Colin.

by Cécile Van de Velde & translated by Susannah Dale, 29 October 2012

In his new work, François Singly continues to explore the transformations of marital bonds. This time, he approaches it from another angle—that of the “process of uncoupling” experienced by women who (...)

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Emergency Cinema

An Interview with Syrian Collective Abounaddara

by Cécile Boëx & translated by Susannah Dale, 5 October 2012

Since April 2011, a collective of Syrian filmmakers has been working on behalf of a people fighting for its freedom. Their short films invent a new cinematographic language adapted to the urgency (...)

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Europe at the Highest Level

About: Luuk van Middelaar, Le passage à l’Europe. Histoire d’un commencement, translated from Dutch into French by Daniel Cunin and Olivier Vanwersch-Cot, Gallimard, 2012.

by Stéphanie Novak & translated by Susannah Dale, 17 September 2012

Luuk van Middelaar puts forward an alternative history of the European construction by analysing the various types of discourse on Europe, the influence of international events and overdue (...)

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Settling Up with the Bank

About: Jeanne Lazarus, L’Épreuve de l’argent. Banques, banquiers, clients, Calmann-Levy.

by Jean-François Laé & Numa Murard & translated by Susannah Dale, 21 May 2012

What does a human life look like to a bank teller? The banking system’s rules of variable geometry mean that the morality of money is not the same for everyone. Money cuts across social boundaries (...)

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Fukushima: The Unremitting Disaster

An Interview with Paul Jobin, sociologist

by David Bornstein & Bernard Thomann & translated by Susannah Dale, 13 April 2012

Paul Jobin, who has been monitoring workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant, provides an analysis of the Japanese government’s denial of the health implications for these workers and, more broadly, (...)

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Employment in France: Past and Future

About: P. Askenazy, Les décennies aveugles, Seuil.

by Matthieu Bunel & translated by Susannah Dale, 16 March 2012

Philippe Askenazy paints a very negative picture of 40 years of employment policy in France. He does not just criticise, but strives to draw recommendations for the future and find the path (...)

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Political Ecology in France

About: M. Bess, La France vert clair. Ecologie et modernité technologique, 1960-2000, Champ Vallon.

by François Jarrige & translated by Susannah Dale, 23 February 2012

According to the American historian Michael Bess, political ecology in France does not have the dark-green hue of ‘deep ecology’, but instead is a light-green colour that combines organic produce (...)

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Liberty, Security, Flexibility

About: Bénédicte Zimmermann, Ce que travailler veut dire, Economica.

by Elodie Béthoux & translated by Susannah Dale, 16 February 2012

Sociologist Bénédicte Zimmerman’s empirical studies of employer groups and participative management reveals how the tension that exists between the individual and the collective is being reshaped in (...)

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Minimal Ethics

About: R. Ogien, L’influence de l’odeur des croissants chauds sur la bonté humaine, Grasset.

by Marc-Antoine Dilhac & translated by Susannah Dale, 7 February 2012

Simply by analysing the moral problems of each and every one of us, Ruwen Ogien takes the stance of ‘minimal ethics’. His book reads like a good mystery novel in which the detective proves against (...)

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Tax Havens: A Guided Tour

An Interview with Gabriel Zucman

by Thomas Vendryes & translated by Susannah Dale, 24 January 2012

What sums of money are hidden in tax havens? By whom? And how? Using original methodology and data that has not yet been fully utilized, Gabriel Zucman sheds new light on these questions, in the (...)

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The Media Revolution and Public Debate

by Charles Girard & translated by Susannah Dale, 3 January 2012

In a democratic regime, do new media represent a threat or a step forward for the press? Charles Girard examines the renewal of the journalistic profession and its impact on democratic debate. (...)

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Investigating China

About: David Bandurski and Martin Hala, Investigative Journalism in China, University of Washington Press, 2010 ; Tong Jingrong, Investigative Journalism in China, 2011.

by Nolwenn Salmon & translated by Susannah Dale, 13 December 2011

In authoritarian China, control of the media exists, but so does control by the media. Two recent books explain how the government has strategically allowed investigative journalism to flourish, (...)

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Doing Away With Presidential Elections

by Pierre Brunet & Arnaud Le Pillouer & translated by Susannah Dale, 1 December 2011

The election of the President of the French Republic by universal suffrage is said to represent an undeniable step forward for democracy, in that it enables the people to directly choose a leader (...)

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When Immigration Is a Crime

by Luca d’Ambrosio & translated by Susannah Dale, 24 October 2011

Over the past few years, European Union law and national laws, particularly in France and Italy, have established repressive and utilitarian immigration policies that have equated European (...)

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Japan and Asia: The Implications of an Improved Relationship

by Guibourg Delamotte & translated by Susannah Dale, 9 September 2011

As China’s power increases, Japan is moving closer to other Asian countries. This return to Asia is not univocal, and the newly elected Democratic Party is not in a position to change the (...)

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From Risk To Disaster

A New Paradigm

by Florent Guénard & Philippe Simay & translated by Susannah Dale, 8 June 2011

In the human and social sciences, the pervasiveness of the notion of disaster is an indication that a true paradigm is developing, which seeks to replace the paradigm of risk on which the modern (...)

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What It Means to Be a Sociologist in China

Interview with Jean-Louis Rocca

by Emilie Frenkiel & translated by Susannah Dale, 27 April 2011

In this interview, sociologist and sinologist Jean-Louis Rocca describes the development of Chinese sociology since its rebirth in the early 1980s. He also discusses the changes that have taken (...)

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France Against Its Gypsies

by Emmanuel Filhol & translated by Susannah Dale, 14 March 2011

Every year the public authorities wait until the end of the school year to expel France’s Gypsies. Emmanuel Filhol shows us how this policy of discrimination, which runs contrary to the principles (...)

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