Transferts, exports-imports, circulation

While becoming a motto for policy makers and a mobility requirement in the professional world, "circulation" has also become a widespread "academic leitmotif" in the social sciences, whether social scientists study the mobility - or lack of mobility - of goods, people, ideas, etc. While highlighting the methodological and scientific implications of this analytical framework, this book shows that the notion of "circulation" is a particularly heuristic point of entry into key issues of the social sciences, such as relations of domination, the unequal ability of actors and goods to move across spaces and borders or the process through which some ideologies and ideas become mainstream and entrenched in specific policy instruments, professional norms or political parties' practice.