Do objects have power? How do they contribute to the constantly renewed construction of social power relations? As part of the "material turn" in the social sciences, this book shows that material objects are both operators and indicators of the mechanisms of power and domination that structure societies and their spaces.

Between 1871 and the 1920s, rural banditry was one of the main forms of protest against the colonial authorities. Focusing on the trajectories and horizons of the actors themselves, this book seeks to shed light on a phenomenon that set itself up as a counterweight to the triumph of colonial domination.

The book proposes to take human rights as a sociological object based on the example of the social controversy of the recognition of "universal legal capacity". He defends an "affirmative sociology" consisting of participating in the production of social ideals.

Since the financial crisis of the late 2000s, young adults from Italy have taken to the road of exile once again. These new migrations, little studied, are presented in the media as a brain drain. Through an ethnographic survey of Italians who have recently arrived in Paris, this book proposes a different approach, focusing on the role of family.

This story contributes to denaturalizing the family and the couple by showing the historical conditions of the emergence, promotion, and imposition of a patriarchal marital model.