Michael Behrent

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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 €.

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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 €

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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

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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.

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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€.

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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 €.

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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 €.

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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 €.

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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.

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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 €.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 €.

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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 €.

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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 €.

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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 €.

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The unknown slave

Reviewed: Paulin Ismard, Le Miroir d’Œdipe. Penser l’esclavage (Oedipus' Mirror: Thinking Slavery), Paris, Seuil, 2023, 224 p., 23 €.

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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

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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 €.

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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 €.

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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 €.

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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.

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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 €.

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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 €

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Capitalism and injustice

Reviewed : Emmanuel Renault Abolir l’exploitation (Abolishing Exploitation), Paris, La Découverte, 2023, 324 p., 23 €.

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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€.

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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 €.

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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

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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 €.

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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 €.

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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 €.

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The elusive doctrine

Reviewed: Sebastian Roché and François Rabaté, La police contre la rue (The police vs. the street), Grasset, 2023, 320 p., 22 €.

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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 €.

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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.

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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€.

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Book review

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

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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 €.

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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 €.

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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 €.

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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.

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The divine light of prisons

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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

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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€.

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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 €.

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