Daily action by excellence, eating is a highly cultural, symbolic and social act because it presupposes, even before that food is consumed, incorporated, a real work of food culturation, - i.e a material, social and cultural work.
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Philippe Cardon
We present two aspects of the mathematician Michel Parreau. In the first place the much appreciated lecture notes of his course in complex analysis. And in the second place his research on Riemann surfaces.
Variables complexes - Surfaces de Riemann
Michel Parreau
At the turn of the 19th / 20th century, the concept of "research field" appeared within the humanities and social sciences in both Germany and France.
Jean-Louis Georget, Gaëlle Hallair
Can agents who decide independently from each other coordinate their economic activities? From the XVIIIth century, economic thought answers this question by an intuition: a coordination is possible thanks to the prices' mechanism. The general equilibrium theory explores this intuition. It constitutes by there the economic theory of a society ...
Claire Pignol
Secrets are inevitable and dangerous. Thus, the rules governing the secret must be carefully formulated. Everyone is concerned.
Jean-Paul Delahaye
This book explores the representations and practices aiming at "doing better", in the context of health, and more specifically mental health. Contributors focus on dynamics, actors, practical resources, and experience of heal-ing, recovery, ways and means to get through.
Approches sociologiques
Lise Demailly, Nadia Garnoussi
This collective, multidisciplinary work draws on research conducted in higher education to analyze the ways in which experience and skills combine. It offers theoretical and practical reflections on a topical issue.
Approche pluridisciplinaire
Jean Biarnès, José Rose
Sandrine Croity-Belz
The frontiers between the body, the mind, the machine are vague. Whether the body is biological or socially constructed is not clear. The body is the object of philosophical, scientific and religious thinkings since the antiquity, but a central question remains: What are the limits of the body?
Alain Cambier
The so-called "Arab Springs"give rise to a number of myths and phantasms, and a lot of texts only consider the surface of movements, with both fascination and exaltation about social networks. But the digital expression of contestation is not sufficient to explain the phenomenon. It is preferable to consider deep reasons moving agents and...
Résistances et résiliences
Jean-Jacques Lavenue
The knowledge and creative economy is a major issue for European cities marked by the industrial revolution and the economic changes of the XXth century. How Lille Métropole, a laboratory of urban renewal in France, meets this new challenge?
Nouveaux liens, nouveaux lieux, nouveaux territoires
Christine Liefooghe, Dominique Mons
This publication aims to position itself against all the apologist rhetoric on skills. It interrogates critics, doubts and disillusions to open itself to the capability approach in order to obtain a better sense about the problems of managing people, organisation, and training.
Des compétences aux capabilités
Solveig Fernagu Oudet, Christian Batal
The question of risk in sports concentrates to her only many subjects of debate or even of controversy. Continuously faced with over time changing legislation and case law, the positions of the relevant actors best suit to their individual interests
Regards croisés 1962-2012
Laurence Munoz, Pierre François
Comment penser l'économie autrement ? Depuis 30 ans, des chercheurs de différentes disciplines participent au développement d’une nouvelle représentation de l’économie des conventions. Les 75 auteurs fournissent un éclairage exceptionnel sur cette approche à partir des travaux de l’un de ses principaux artisans, Olivier Favereau.
Autour des travaux d'Olivier Favereau
Philippe Batifoulier, Franck Bessis
The evaluation pervades all fields of life. "The Fever of Evaluation" discusses the practices of evaluation in very different areas of activity and addresses also the evaluation of wealth in its economic and social dimensions.
Quels symptômes ? Quels traitements ?
Bertrand Bocquet
This book analyses the economic, social and political unity of financial activities. Building on a variety of social sciences, it sheds light on fifteen years of interdisciplinary research conducted by members of the Social Studies of Finance Association.
Pour une approche interdisciplinaire
Isabelle Chambost, Marc Lenglet
Local citizenship has been much debated all over Europe. In Sweden its legitimacy has proven to be widely recognised due to good quality local governments' institutions implementing welfare programs. Despite privatization and budget cutbacks, local services provision remains of high standard.
Marie-Pierre Richard
Michel Hastings
Tant qu'il y aura des cages is the translation of Rattling the Cage by Steven Wise, a founding document in the field of Animal Rights Jurisprudence.
Vers les droits fondamentaux des animaux
Steven M. Wise
David Chauvet
Jane Goodall, Steven M. Wise
L'ampleur des changements environnementaux est aujourd’hui bien établie. Face à cette situation inédite dans l’histoire de l’humanité, quels « cadres » et catégories mobiliser pour penser ces bouleversements et guider l’action ? La mise en évidence de l’origine humaine de ces changements et la critique du dualisme Nature/Culture ont conduit...
Aurélie Choné, Isabelle Hajek
