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Being both a policy instrument and a form of representation, maps are a central object for the social sciences. This multidisciplinary book examines the political uses of maps through a multilevel perspective and by comparing different policy sectors: maps institutionalize territories, crystallize conflicts and participate in policy problem ...
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Pouvoirs, territoires, résistances
Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli
The work of Robert Salais – one of the founders of the French current known as the "Economie des conventions" – shows a singular reflection that crosses interests for history, law and philosophy. In this respect, economics as practiced by Robert Salais is a reflexive science that constantly renews its interrogations, based on the results obtained.
Chômage, convention et capacité dans l'œuvre de Robert Salais
Christian Bessy, Claude Didry
Beyond an analysis of participatory democracy as an answer to the crisis of representative democracy, this edited book analyses a diversity of citizens mobilizations and experimentations, while questioning their novelty and exploring their relations with public institutions.
Pratiques, institutions, imaginaires
Catherine Neveu
Is the circular economy at the service of the environmental cause or at the service of the economy, institutions and their players?
Monographie d'un projet transmanche
Denis Blot, Lucie Domingo
In addition to highlighting recent socio-spatial transformations of (sub)urban spaces in Northern France through (de)industrialization, discrimination and poverty, this book provides original conceptual framework and tools for thinking about social change in a wide variety of contexts.
Capitalisme, race et pauvreté
Clément Barbier, Vianney Schlegel
The life course becomes an essential part of public policies in Europe, spearhead of a neoliberal model of society that through the «biographical injunction» promotes autonomy and freedom. This book proposes to reflect on the place of the life course in the scientific space and in the social space in civil society.
Logiques individuelles, collectives et institutionnelles
Catherine Négroni, Marc Bessin
What does it mean to speak for others? Although spokespersons are omnipresent in public debates, this figure remains paradoxically little studied.
Fondements et métamorphoses d'un rôle politique
Samuel Hayat, Nicolas Kaciaf
