Parutions Int.

Modernización y corrupción política en la Europa contemporánea – Frédéric Monier & Gemma Rubi (dir.)

Modernización y corrupción política en la Europa contemporánea – Frédéric Monier & Gemma Rubi (dir.)

Un état des recherches en cours sur l’histoire de la corruption, initiées dans le cadre d’un réseau de recherche européen coordonné au Centre Norbert Elias. La corruption est ici envisagée comme une notion évolutive, qui se transforme au début de l’ère contemporaine en question politique. L’ouvrage rassemble différentes études de cas, en Espagne, en France, en Roumanie.

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The Value of Disorder – Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele

The Value of Disorder – Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele

The authors examine trans-border connectivity and trade; civil war and rebellion; wealth creation and dispersal; labour and gender relations; and aspirations to moral autonomy in northern Chad. Vividly ethnographic, the book gives precedence to local categories of value, while asking broader questions about the nature of non-state regional political organisation.

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Food values in Europe – Valeria Siniscalchi et Krista Harper (eds.)

Food values in Europe – Valeria Siniscalchi et Krista Harper (eds.)

What can a focus on “food projects” in Europe tell us about contemporary social processes and cultural debates? Valeria Siniscalchi and Krista Harper show how food becomes a marker of identity and resistance to social exclusion, and how food values become tools for transforming power dynamics at the local level and beyond. Through the comparison of food-centered movements across Europe, the book explains how these forms of mobilization express ideologies as well as economic and political objectives.

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