About
A specialist in the United States and the anarchist movement, she is a lecturer at Sciences Po Lille and a researcher at Ceraps-CNRS. Formerly editor-in-chief of Esprit magazine, she produced the documentary Emma Goldman, vivre la révolution (2018) and is a member of the editorial board of La Déferlante.
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Violences en cuisine Une omerta à la française, Nora Bouazzouni, Stock, 2025, 342 p., €21.50
- By Alice Béja
In Esprit (2025/12 Décembre)
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What is the Right Local Level?
- By Daniel Béhar,
- Jacques Lévy,
- Interviewed by Alice Béja,
- et al.
In Esprit (2015/2 February)
Violences en cuisine Une omerta à la française, Nora Bouazzouni, Stock, 2025, 342 p., €21.50
- By Alice Béja
In Esprit (2025/12 Décembre)
The Return of Capital and the Growth of Inequality
Interview with Thomas Piketty
- Interview with Thomas Piketty,
- Interview by Alice Béja,
- and Marc-Olivier Padis
In Esprit (2013/11 November)
Party Members, Activists and Leaders: The Internal Conflicts of Political Parties. Roundtable with Goulven Boudic, Florence Haegel et Erwan Lecoeur.
- By Goulven Boudic,
- Florence Haegel,
- Erwan Lecœur,
- et al.
In Esprit (2013/8 August September)
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Articles
Violences en cuisine Une omerta à la française, Nora Bouazzouni, Stock, 2025, 342 p., €21.50
In Esprit (2025/12 Décembre)
“We Are Only Mothers and We Want to Feed Our Children”. The Politization of Immigrant Jewish Women during the U.S. Meat Boycotts (1902-1917)
In Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle (2025/1 n° 70)
“I’ll speak in Philadelphia!” The origins of the fight for freedom of expression
In Esprit (2024/7 July August)
Reviews
- By Vincent Genin,
- Édouard Galby-Marinetti,
- Michel Herland,
- et al.
In Esprit (2024/4 April)
University as an ideal
- By Alice Béja,
- Fanny Gallot,
- Ulysse Guttmann-Faure,
- et al.
In Esprit (2023/7 July August)
Feeding the body politic
In Politique américaine (2022/2 No 39)
#MeToo
In Esprit (2017/12 December)
The Other America
In Esprit (2017/5 May)
From Offense to Justice
Survey with Alice Béja, Anne Dujin, Dick Howard, Guillaume le Blanc, Jean-Philippe Pierron, Olivier Remaud, Lucile Schmid and Carole Widmaier
- By Alice Béja,
- Anne Dujin,
- Dick Howard,
- et al.
In Esprit (2016/3 March April)
Violence in an Armchair
In Esprit (2015/12 December)
The Proliferation of International Conflicts
- By Nicole Gnesotto,
- Justin Vaïsse,
- Interviewed by Alice Béja,
- et al.
In Esprit (2015/11 November)
The Metamorphoses of Capitalism
In Esprit (2015/7 July)
Spain: Hope After Crisis
- By Judit Carrera,
- Interviewed by Alice Béja
In Esprit (2015/7 July)
Changing Businesses to Change Consumption?
- By Emmanuel Arnaud,
- Nicolas d’Audiffret,
- David Massé,
- et al.
In Esprit (2015/7 July)
Surveillance with a French Touch
In Esprit (2015/5 May)
Fear of Madness and Patients’ Groups
- By Patrick Landman,
- Interviewed by Alice Béja,
- Marc-Olivier Padis
In Esprit (2015/3 March April)
The Incurable Illness
- By Jean-Luc Gallais,
- Thierry de Rochegonde,
- Olivier Tarragano,
- et al.
In Esprit (2015/3 March April)
What is the Right Local Level?
- By Daniel Béhar,
- Jacques Lévy,
- Interviewed by Alice Béja,
- et al.
In Esprit (2015/2 February)
Freedom of Expression in France and the United States
In Esprit (2015/2 February)
Chopping Up France. Introduction
In Esprit (2015/2 February)
From Philadelphia to Ferguson
The Illusions of Post-Racial America
In Esprit (2015/1 January)
What Can We Learn from the Ebola Crisis?
- By Vinh-Kim Nguyen
- and Alice Béja
In Esprit (2015/1 January)
Territories of Time. Introduction.
In Esprit (2014/12 December)
Learning at one
In Esprit (2014/12 December)
A Republican Victory for a Progressive America?
In Esprit (2014/12 December)
1914: Philosophy in France and Germany
- By Olivier Agard,
- Frédéric Worms,
- Alice Béja
- et al.
In Esprit (2014/11 November)
« We Are All Unemployed ». Introduction
In Esprit (2014/11 November)
Don’t Forget Hong Kong!
In Esprit (2014/10 October)
Chinese, Dream, American Dream
In Esprit (2014/8 August September)
Matteo Renzi, Too Good to Be True?
In Esprit (2014/8 August September)
The Normalization of the Front National in French Politics : What Is to be Done?
- By Alice Béja
- and Marc-Olivier Padis
In Esprit (2014/8 August September)
Boko Haram, Terrorism the Nigerian Way
In Esprit (2014/7 July)
A Contemporary Evil? Introduction
In Esprit (2014/2 February)
Nelson Mandela, the Pragmatic Warrior
In Esprit (2014/1 January)
Egypt's New Constitution
- By Tewfik Aclimandos
- and Alice Béja
In Esprit (2014/1 January)
A Clayfooted Big Brother
In Esprit (2013/12 December)
Soft Power, a Double Edged Sword
In Esprit (2013/11 November)
The Return of Capital and the Growth of Inequality
Interview with Thomas Piketty
- Interview with Thomas Piketty,
- Interview by Alice Béja,
- and Marc-Olivier Padis
In Esprit (2013/11 November)
Feminist Struggles are Social Issues. Introduction
In Esprit (2013/10 October)
Network Mobilizations, Digital Activism: When the People Want to Participate
- By Nadia Urbinati,
- Translation by Alice Béja
In Esprit (2013/8 August September)
Party Members, Activists and Leaders: The Internal Conflicts of Political Parties. Roundtable with Goulven Boudic, Florence Haegel et Erwan Lecoeur.
- By Goulven Boudic,
- Florence Haegel,
- Erwan Lecœur,
- et al.
In Esprit (2013/8 August September)
Are the Taksim Protests the End of the Turkish Exception?
- By Ahmet Insel
- and Alice Béja
In Esprit (2013/8 August September)
Iran's “New Reformism”
- By Ramin Jahanbegloo
- and Alice Béja
In Esprit (2013/8 August September)
Thinking with Numbers: Miracle or Illusion?
In Esprit (2013/8 August September)
The Power of Saying “I”: Intellectuals, Politics, and Writing
Interview with Éric Marty
- By Éric Marty,
- Interview conducted by Alice Béja,
- and Michaël Fœssel,
- et al.
In Esprit (2013/7 July)
Upsetting Intellectual History. Introduction.
In Esprit (2013/7 July)
Marseille, Maritime and Cosmopolitan
Interview with Jean Viard
- By Jean Viard,
- Interview conducted by Alice Béja,
- and Olivier Mongin
In Esprit (2013/6 June)
Giulio Andreotti's Ghost
In Esprit (2013/6 June)
Finding One's Place in a Liquid World
In Esprit (2013/6 June)
Journals and Open Access: The Pitfalls of Transparency
An interview with Patrick Fridenson
- By Patrick Fridenson,
- Interview conducted by Marc-Olivier Padis,
- and Alice Béja
In Esprit (2013/5 May)
Irony is Rampant but Criticism Remains Thin on the Ground. Introduction
- By Alice Béja
- and Ève Charrin
In Esprit (2013/5 May)
Opinions. Do Women Really Want to Have It All?
In Esprit (2013/3 March April)
Obama, Lincoln: The Other Side of Eloquence
In Esprit (2013/3 March April)
Doping and Body's Limits
- By Georges Vigarello
- and Alice Béja
In Esprit (2013/2 February)
Opinions. The United States, More or Less a Perfect Union
In Esprit (2012/12 December)
Public Space: The Epitome of the Public Good: Introduction
In Esprit (2012/11 November)
Charter 91: The Appeal of Iranian Intellectuals
In Esprit (2012/11 November)
Crises: Poor Aesthetic and Political Representations
In Esprit (2012/6 June)
Italy: The Senator and the Trooper
In Esprit (2012/6 June)
The Slow Discarding of Televised Fiction
In Esprit (2012/6 June)
Opinions. The Future of Bookstores
In Esprit (2012/5 May)
Rezso Kasztner: In the Shadow of History
In Esprit (2012/3 March April)
Bref, It Is Reassuring
In Esprit (2012/2 February)
Presidentialism: The French disease
An interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- By Daniel Cohn-Bendit,
- Interview by Michel Marian,
- and Alice Béja,
- et al.
In Esprit (2012/2 February)
Italy: The Return of the Christian Democrats?
In Esprit (2012/1 January)
Greece: A Persistent Instability
- By Alice Béja
- and Marc-Olivier Padis
In Esprit (2011/12 December)
Opinions. The Strange Apathy of Indignant Frenchmen
In Esprit (2011/12 December)
Republican Primaries: A Question of Identity
In Esprit (2011/11 November)
Opinions. Professor, Today We "Finish"
In Esprit (2011/11 November)
The British Press after the Murdoch Affair
- By Marc-Olivier Padis
- and Alice Béja
In Esprit (2011/11 November)
Mass Schizophrenia in Italy
In Esprit (2011/10 October)
Echoes of September 11: From Bush to Obama
- By Dick Howard
- and Alice Béja
In Esprit (2011/10 October)
Artfulness and Artlessness, the Literary and Political Uses of Impersonality in John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. Trilogy
In Revue française d’études américaines (2011/1 No 127)
Is America Sick?
In Esprit (2010/12 December)
The Radicalization of the Republican Party in the United States
In Esprit (2010/6 June)
No Gift for Obama
In Esprit (2010/2 February)
Obama and the Reform of the American Healthcare System
In Esprit (2009/10 October)
Obama as President: Recognition for Blacks?
In Esprit (2009/1 January)
American Presidential Elections: Interminable but Motivating Primaries
In Esprit (2008/6 June)
American Elections: A Morality Campaign
In Esprit (2006/12 December)
The Cultural Power of the American Constitution
In Esprit (2006/11 November)
Are the Scriptures Law in the United States?
In Esprit (2006/7 July)
The Judge and “Intelligent Design” in the United States
In Esprit (2006/6 June)