Table ronde : Histoire du monde au XIXe siècle

Cette table ronde, organisée par le CHRIM (centre d’histoire internationale et d’études politiques de la mondialisation), réunissait plusieurs intervenant·e·s invité·e·s autour d’une discussion du nouvel ouvrage codirigé par Pierre Singaravélou et Sylvain Venayre : L’histoire du monde au XIXe siècle[1]. Les deux codirecteurs souhaitaient par ce livre présenter une nouvelle façon de parler du XIXe siècle. Partant d’une rencontre ...

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Crimes of Peace : how ‘migrants’ are deshumanized through bureaucratic procedures and dominant institutional discourses

This paper is a review of the book Crimes of Peace : Mediterranean Migrations at the World’s Deadliest Border of Maurizio Albahari (2015). I begin with a short summary that emphasizes its key arguments. In a second part, I analyze through various anthropological notions, the first and last chapters of the book. Finally, I shortly expose my own ...

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Burkini and Orientalism : a critic of Alain Finkielkraut and Bernard-Henri Lévy’s narratives

Burkini and Orientalism Neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other. – Edward Said   If women’s liberation is connected to their ability to wear bright clothing, capitalist consumerism becomes a disturbing component of feminism. ...

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Informal Apartheid

The purpose of this following article is to share some of the observations I made during my one month stay in Cape Town, in January 2017. Indeed, I will share with you some of the most turning points, analyzed with my ‘’Swiss student in sociology’’ skills. Therefore, I am totally aware of the subjectivity of my remarks, and ...

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Stérilisations non consenties : une histoire moderne du génocide des peuples natifs américains (1970-1976) par Anouk Essyad

« They took our past with a sword and our land with a pen.  Now they’re trying to take our future with a scalpel. » – Une femme native américaine (citée par Ralstin-Lewis, 2005 :78)   En 1974, Julie, une femme native américaine de 28 ans, est stérilisée par un cabinet du Indian Health Service. Formellement, cette ...

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