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Minority identification between affiliation and ascription
Reviewed: Marie-Claire Willems, Musulman. Une assignation? (“Muslim”: An Ascription?) Bordeaux, Éditions du Détour, 2023, 200 p., 18 €.
- By Margot Dazey,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
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A pope’s silence
Reviewed: Nina Valbousquet, Les âmes tièdes. Le Vatican face à la Holocaust (Tepid souls: The Vatican confronts the Holocaust), Paris, La Découverte, 2024, 480 p., 26 €
- By Annette Becker,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The Many Voices of Civil Rights
Reviewed: Olivier Mahéo, De Rosa Parks au Black Power: Une histoire Populaire des mouvements noirs, 1945-1970 (From Rosa Parks to Black Power: A people’s history of Black movements, 1945-1970), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024, 286 p., 24 €, ISBN 9782753597624
- By Ana Artiaga,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Capitalism: the great transition
About: Jérôme Baschet, Quand commence le capitalisme? De la société féodale au monde de l’économie (When did capitalism begin? From feudal society to the economic world) Albi, Crise et critique, 2024, 204 pp., €16, ISBN 9782490831371.
- By Quentin Badaire,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Urban vendettas
Reviewed: Marwan Mohammed, “Y’a embrouille.” Sociologie des rivalités de quartier (“There’s Trouble”: Sociology of Neighborhood Rivalries), Paris, Stock, 2023, 373 p., 20,90€.
- By Mickael Chelal,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
In the time of disaster
Reviewed: Laurent Coumel, 24 heures de la vie à Tchernobyl (24 hours in the life of Chernobyl), Paris, Puf, 2024, 200 p., 16 €.
- By Sylvain Dufraisse,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The decolonial continent
Reviewed: Philippe Colin, Lissell Quiroz, Pensées décoloniales. Une introduction aux théories critiques d’Amérique latine (Decolonial Thoughts: An Introduction to Latin American Critical Theories), Paris, La Découverte, 2023, 240 p., 20, 50 €.
- By Lola Yon-Dominguez,
- translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
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A War of Signs
Reviewed: Jérémie Foa, Survivre. Une histoire des guerres de Religion (Survive: A History of the Wars of Religion), Paris, Seuil, 2024, 352 p., 23 €.
- By Alexandre Goderniaux,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Serial writers
Reviewed: Muriel Mille, Le travail de la fiction. Dans les coulisses d’une série télévisée (The labor of fiction: Behind the scenes of a TV series) Saint-Denis, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2024, 342 p., €19, ISBN 9782379244124.
- By Héloïse Boudon,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Discrimination as a “test”
Reviewed: Mickaëlle Provost, L’expérience de l’oppression. Une phénoménologie du sexisme et du racisme (The experience of oppression: A phenomenology of sexism and racism), Paris, PUF, 2023, 344 p., 24 €.
- By Frédérique Jean,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
A hard right turn?
Reviewed: Vincent Tiberj, La droitisation française. Mythe et réalités (France’s rightward turn: myths and realities), Paris, PUF, 2024, 335 p., 15 €, ISBN 9782130837954
- By Gwendal Châton,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Portugal’s revolution
Reviewed: Victor Pereira, C’est le peuple qui commande. La révolution des Œillets 1974-1976 (The People Rules: The Carnation Revolution, 1974-1976), Bordeaux, Éditions du Détour, 2024, 280 p., 21€90.
- By Christophe Araújo,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Virtuoso Fasting
Reviewed: Isabelle Jonveaux, Une culture de la satiété. Enquête sociologique sur le jeûne comme expérience spirituelle (A Culture of Satisfaction: A Sociological Study of Fasting as Spiritual Experience), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024, 228 p.
- By Zoé Boucherie,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Marx and the history of nature
Reviewed: Frédéric Monferrand, La nature du capital. Politique et ontologie chez le jeune Marx (The Nature of Capital: Politics and Ontology in the Young Marx), Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2024, 320 p., 22 €.
- By Camille Chamois,
- Translated from the French by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Does one choose to be sick?
Reviewed: Paul-Loup Weil-Dubuc, L’injustice des inégalités sociales de santé (The Injustice of Health-Related Social Inequality), Paris, Hygée Éditions, 2023, 178 p., 20 €.
- By Elodie Boublil,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Minority identification between affiliation and ascription
Reviewed: Marie-Claire Willems, Musulman. Une assignation? (“Muslim”: An Ascription?) Bordeaux, Éditions du Détour, 2023, 200 p., 18 €.
- By Margot Dazey,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Unrepresentative images
Reviewed: Jean-Claude Schmitt, Les Images médiévales. La figure et le corps (Medieval images. Figures and bodies), Paris, Gallimard, 2023, 368 p., 29, 50 €.
- By Fabien Lacouture,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The unknown slave
Reviewed: Paulin Ismard, Le Miroir d’Œdipe. Penser l’esclavage (Oedipus' Mirror: Thinking Slavery), Paris, Seuil, 2023, 224 p., 23 €.
- By René de Nicolay,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Abortion under the Old Regime
Reviewed: Laura Tatoueix, Défaire son fruit. Une histoire sociale de l’avortement en France à l’époque moderne (Unmaking one's fruit: A social history of abortion in France during the early modern period), Paris, éditions de l’EHESS, coll. En temps & lieux, 2024, 392 p., 22,80 euros
- By Déborah Cohen,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Race and the Raepublic
Reviewed: Stéphanie Soubrier, Races guerrières. Enquête sur une catégorie impériale (1850-1918) (Martial Races: A Study of an Imperial Category (1850-1918)), Paris, CNRS Editions, 2023, 448 p., 26 €.
- By Claire Miot,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
In the time of disaster
Reviewed: Laurent Coumel, 24 heures de la vie à Tchernobyl (24 hours in the life of Chernobyl), Paris, Puf, 2024, 200 p., 16 €.
- By Sylvain Dufraisse,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The I and the self
Reviewed: Pierre Guenancia, L’homme sans moi. Essai sur l’identité (Man without Self: An Essay on Identity), Paris, Puf, 368 p., 26 €.
- By Sabine Hammond,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Can social cohesion be measured?
Reviewed: Sandra Hoibian, La mosaïque française. Comment (re)faire société aujourd’hui? (The French mosaic: How to (re)make society today?). Paris, Flammarion, 2024, 260 p., 21 €, ISBN 9782080456533.
- By Nicolas Duvoux,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The Earth Mother vs. God the Father
About : Émilie Hache, De la génération. Enquête sur sa disparition et son remplacement par la production (On Generation: A Study of its Disappearance and Replacement by Production) Paris, Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2024, 312 p., 21 €.
- By Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod,
- translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
A pope’s silence
Reviewed: Nina Valbousquet, Les âmes tièdes. Le Vatican face à la Holocaust (Tepid souls: The Vatican confronts the Holocaust), Paris, La Découverte, 2024, 480 p., 26 €
- By Annette Becker,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Capitalism and injustice
Reviewed : Emmanuel Renault Abolir l’exploitation (Abolishing Exploitation), Paris, La Découverte, 2023, 324 p., 23 €.
- By Fabien Tarrit,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
For a sustainable architecture
Reviewed: Philippe Simay, Bâtir avec ce qui reste : quelles ressources pour sortir de l’extractivisme ? (Building with What Remains: What Resources Can Get Us Out of Extractivism?), Saint-Mandé, Éditions Terre urbaine, 2024, 133 p., 17€.
- By David Rottmann,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The decolonial continent
Reviewed: Philippe Colin, Lissell Quiroz, Pensées décoloniales. Une introduction aux théories critiques d’Amérique latine (Decolonial Thoughts: An Introduction to Latin American Critical Theories), Paris, La Découverte, 2023, 240 p., 20, 50 €.
- By Lola Yon-Dominguez,
- translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Marilyn Monroe does not exist
Reviewed: Christine van Geen, Allumeuse. Genèse d’un mythe (The “Tease”: Genesis of a Myth), Paris, Seuil, 2024, 192 pp., €20, ISBN 9782021544053
- By Élisa Goudin,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
An awareness of danger
Reviewed: Jérémy Guedj, Les Juifs français et le nazisme, 1933-1939 L’Histoire renversée. (French Jews and Nazism, 1933-1939: History Upended). Paris, Puf, 2024, 371 p., 22 €.
- By Emmanuel Droit,
- translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
A Critique of TV Series
Reviewed: Bertrand Cochard, Vide à la demande. Critique des séries (Emptiness on Demand: A Critique of TV Series), Paris, L’Échappée, 2024, 171 p., 17 €.
- By Jean-Baptiste Ghins,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Airs of empire
Reviewed: Bruno Dumézil, L’Empire mérovingien, Ve-VIIIe siècle (The Merovingian Empire: From the Fifth to the Eighth Centuries), Paris, Passés composés, 2023, 352 p., 23 €.
- By Geneviève Bührer-Thierry,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The elusive doctrine
Reviewed: Sebastian Roché and François Rabaté, La police contre la rue (The police vs. the street), Grasset, 2023, 320 p., 22 €.
- By Dimitri Coste,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The Holy Roman Empire and colonization
Reviewed: Indravati Félicité, Le Saint-Empire face au monde. Contestations et redéfinitions de l’impérialité, XVe-XIXe siècle (The Holy Roman Empire Before the World: Contestations and Redefinitions of Imperiality from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century) CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2024, 456 p., 27 €.
- By Gabriel Redon,
- translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The value of school
Reviewed: Guillaume Durieux, Faut-il en finir avec l’école? Autonomie & justice scolaire (Should we do away with schools? Autonomy and scholastic justice). Paris, Éditions Eliott, 2024, 318 p., 28 euros.
- By Nassim El Kabli,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Urban vendettas
Reviewed: Marwan Mohammed, “Y’a embrouille.” Sociologie des rivalités de quartier (“There’s Trouble”: Sociology of Neighborhood Rivalries), Paris, Stock, 2023, 373 p., 20,90€.
- By Mickael Chelal,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The Many Voices of Civil Rights
Reviewed: Olivier Mahéo, De Rosa Parks au Black Power: Une histoire Populaire des mouvements noirs, 1945-1970 (From Rosa Parks to Black Power: A people’s history of Black movements, 1945-1970), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024, 286 p., 24 €, ISBN 9782753597624
- By Ana Artiaga,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Medieval emotions
Reviewed: Régine Le Jan, Amis ou ennemis? Émotions, relations, identités au Moyen Âge (Friends or enemies? Emotions, relationships, and identities during the Middle Ages), Paris, Seuil, collection "L’Univers historique ," 2024, 528 p. and 8 pl., 27,50 €.
- By Julien Le Mauff,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Ecology: A class struggle
Reviewed: Jean-Baptiste Comby, Ecolos, mais pas trop… Les classes sociales face à l’enjeu environnemental (Ecological but not too much … Social classes and environmentalism), Paris, Raisons d’Agir, 2024, 192 p., 14 €.
- By Mathieu Vigour,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The Volga and Russian geopolitics
Reviewed: Pascal Marchand, Volga, l’héritage de la modernité (Volga: The Legacy of Modernity) Paris, Éditions du CNRS, 2023, 256 p., 23 €.
- By Laurent Touchart,
- translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Capitalism: the great transition
About: Jérôme Baschet, Quand commence le capitalisme? De la société féodale au monde de l’économie (When did capitalism begin? From feudal society to the economic world) Albi, Crise et critique, 2024, 204 pp., €16, ISBN 9782490831371.
- By Quentin Badaire,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
The divine light of prisons
- By Juliette Galonnier,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Where do our clothes go?
Reviewed: Emmanuelle Durand, L’envers des fripes. Les vêtements dans les plis de la mondialisation (The other side of fripes: Clothes in globalization's "folds"), Paris, Premier Parallèle, 2024, 168 p., 9, 50 €, ISBN 9782850612114
- By Leslie Belton Chevallier,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
Italy before Italy
Reviewed: Jean Boutier, Sandro Landi, and Jean-Claude Waquet, eds., Le temps des Italies. XIIe-XIXe siècle (The Time of Italies: The Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries), Paris, École Française de Rome, Passés/Composés, 2023, 756 p., 29€.
- By Valeria Caldarella Allaire,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)
In the patient queue
Reviewed: Maud Gelly, Les Politiques du tri. D’une épidémie à l’autre (SIDA, COVID) (The Politics of Selection: From One Epidemic to Anotherr [AIDS, Covid]). Le Croquant, 2024, 256 p., 20 €.
- By Igor Martinache,
- Translated by Michael Behrent
In Books & Ideas (2025/1)