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Le discours de la linguistique
Linguistic Discourse
Gestes et imaginaires du savoir
Gestures and Imaginaries of Knowledge
Langages
The book presents a novel approach to the field of linguistics, which is here envisioned as a discursive practice. Through analyses of specific case studies, it sheds light on the gestures and imaginaries that underpin the enunciation of knowledge.



Dominique Desmarchelier, David Douyère, Bochra Kammarti, Marie-Claire Willems, Dilek Yankaya
Mots. Les langages du politique, n°135/2024
Nommer le religieux
Naming the religious
Self- and hetero-denomination are embedded in social interactions and carry political, legal, cultural and social conflicts. Through five case studies addressing the question in different religions, this special issue examines the social logics behind the scholarly and non-scientific patterns of religious naming processes.



Sylvie Moret Petrini
Histoire de l'éducation, n°161/2024
Se soustraire à l'empire des grands. Enfance, jeunesse et agentivité (1500-1850)
Childhood, youth and agency (1500-1850)
This dossier encourages a reflection on the experiences of children and the agency of youth (between adapting and resisting) in France and the neighbouring countries over a long period of time and using a wide range of sources. It thereby aims to shed light on the way in which children took action within social structures.



Sylvie Plane, Catherine Brissaud
Repères, n°69/2024
À quoi servent les évaluations institutionnelles ?
What are institutional assessments used for?
This issue offers critical analyses that examine how institutional assessments, which have sometimes-intertwined certifying, selective and/or informative functions, influence teachers' practices and teaching choices and, as such, are used for the political management of teaching.



Léa Palet, Jean-Gabriel Contamin, Tristan Haute, Igor Martinache, Stéphan Mierzejewski
Revue française de pédagogie, n°221/2023
Retour sur les (dés)engagements enseignants
Focus on teachers' (dis)engagements
From a socio-historical perspective, this issue proposes to analyse from different angles the changing relationship between teachers and their profession in the light of the social and institutional transformations they are facing. It looks at the notion of teacher engagement or disengagement, distinguishing between the different dimension involved



Delphine Antoine-Mahut, André Charrak, Pierre Girard, Marina Mestre-Zaragoza
La raison au travail, 1
Reason at work, 1
Pour une histoire rationnelle des idées
For a rational history of ideas
Hors Collection
Pierre-François Moreau, author of Spinoza: l'expérience et l'éternité (1994) and Problèmes du spinozisme (2006), has initiated a spectacular revival of a rational history of ideas, thanks in particular to his studies of Spinoza. This volume, the first of two dedicated to his work, brings together original contributions by historians of philosophy.



Raphaële Andrault, Mogens Lærke
La raison au travail, 2
Reason at work, 2
Traversées du spinozisme
Crossings into Spinozism
Hors Collection
With Spinoza : l'expérience et l'éternité (1994) and Problèmes du spinozisme (2006), among other works, Pierre-François Moreau has inspired a spectacular renewal of Spinozism, in France and abroad. This edited volume gathers a series of original contributions dedicated to Moreau’s work on Spinoza.



Élise Roche



Daniel Frandji
Revue française de pédagogie, n°220/2023
Justice, éducation, démocratie : recherches sur les « droits pédagogiques » d'après Basil Bernstein
Justice, education, democracy: research on "pedagogic rights" according to Basil Bernstein
This dossier builds on the model of "pedagogic rights" outlined by the British sociologist Basil Bernstein. the dossier shows how the model of pedagogic rights offers an opportunity to engage in debate with the best-known current theories of justice, which have trouble properly referring to the three rights.



Marlène Bouvet, Florent Chossière, Marine Duc, Estelle Fisson, Nonna Mayer
Catégoriser
The social construction of differences
Lexique de la construction sociale des différences
A lexicon of categorizations
Sociétés, Espaces, Temps
Groups and individuals often dislike being "placed into a box". But how to approach these processes with the tools of contemporary social sciences? This lexicon proposes a toolbox of categorization processes in 48 notes.it shows the way researchers in social sciences and humanities make use of these concepts, with current illustrations of them.



Jacques-Louis Lantoine, Camille Chevalier
La servitude volontaire
Voluntary Servitude
Postérité, réappropriations et perspectives critiques
Posterity, Reappropriations and Critical Perspectives
La croisée des chemins
The formula « voluntary servitude » is mobilized without being necessarily referred to La Boétie's Discourse. The paradoxical and enigmatic aspect of the expression seduces. This book provides a critical analysis of it and proposes avatars that are more suitable to explain the phenomenon it indicates.



Marion Demonteil
Inspecter la culture
Inspecting Culture
Une sociologie de l'écriture administrative
Sociology of Administrative Writing
Gouvernement en question(s)
Centering its analysis on the inspection report, this book vividly illustrates the how inspectorates have become independent institutions. By looking at those who are responsible for writing, commissioning, and receiving these reports, the book sheds light not only on the writing practices but also on the intricate dynamics surrounding them.



Maxime Boidy, Marie Fabre, Alice Leroy
Laboratoire italien. Politique et société, n°31/2023
Gênes 2001. Histoires, mémoires et futurs d'un événement politique
Genoa 2001. Narratives, memories and perspectives of a political event
The twelve contributions in this Laboratoire italien issue examine the record of the Genoa G8 counter-summit in July 2001, twenty years after its ferocious repression by the Italian police, by cross-referencing perspectives from social sciences, literary studies, oral narrative, film studies and visual studies.



Valérie Bonnet, Emmanuel Marty, Cécile Robert
Mots. Les langages du politique, n°134/2024
Mécaniques de la dépolitisation
Mechanics of depoliticisation
This issue sets out to explore the various discursive mechanisms of depoliticisation, including the disqualification of a political approach to the issues and subjects at stake, the narrowing of the space for democratic debate, and the invisibilisation of politics through the gradual imposition of supposedly apolitical rationalities.



Marina Rotolo, Maria Gravari-Barbas
Labellisation et fabrique urbaine
Labelling and the Urban Fabric
Matera, Capitale européenne de la culture
Matera, European Capital of Culture
Sociétés, Espaces, Temps
The book analyses the urban and territorial transformations of the city of Matera following its designation as a heritage and cultural site. Matera has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993, and has been designated European Capital of Culture for 2019.



Philippe Chevallier
Michel Foucault et le christianisme
Michel Foucault and Christianity
Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée
La croisée des chemins
What traces has Christianity left in our lives? This question runs through Foucault's work, from research on modern confession to that on Antiquity. This book offers the first synthesis of it. Far from the usual ascetic image, Foucault makes Christianity a fragile relationship with the truth.



Nuria Aranda Garcia, Almuneda Izquierdo Andreu
Atalaya, n°23/2023
Femmes et cour entre le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance : nouvelles perspectives de recherche (SEMYR)
Women and Court between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: new lines of research (SEMYR)
This volume focuses on the literary role of women at court between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It offers a broad overview of female characters, especially in books of chivalry, as well as their importance in convent literature and as dedicatees of texts.



François Alfandari, Anaïs Bonanno, Lina Cárdenas, Saphia Doumenc, Willy Gibard, Lucas Winiarski
Enquêter sur les relations professionnelles
Investigating Industrial Relations
Méthodes, outils et pratiques
Methods, Tools, and Practices
Sociétés, Espaces, Temps
In a context of transformation of social relations at work, how can we investigate industrial relations? Based on original contributions by young social science researchers, this collective book offers methodological guidelines to researchers and students interested in this field of study.



Martina Avanza, Sarah Mazouz, Romain Pudal
Ethnographie(s) politique(s)
Political Ethnography
Méthodes, objets et terrains
Methodology, Topics, Fieldworks
Sociétés, Espaces, Temps
The book addresses political ethnography in the French context. It brings together the work of scholars who have helped to shape the "ethnographical turn" in French political science. Its main contribution is to show how ethnographic methods renew the study of central and classical topics in political science.



Francisco Bautista, Mario Cossio Olavide
Cahiers d'études hispaniques médiévales, n°46/2023
Sous le signe d'Alphonse X : contextes et lectures de don Juan Manuel
Under the sign of Alfonso X: contexts and readings of Don Juan Manuel



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