120 research outputs found
Agnès Sinaï et Mathilde Szuba (dir.), Gouverner la décroissance. Politiques de l’Anthropocène III
No full textPour ce troisième tome de la série Politiques de l’Anthropocène, Mathilde Szuba s’est jointe à Agnès Sinaï pour former le tandem de codirection. L’ouvrage rassemble neuf contributions, rédigées par des auteurs issus de divers horizons disciplinaires (économie, science politique, philosophie, chimie), sous le thème des alternatives politiques et sociales qui s’insèrent dans un paradigme de la décroissance. Le premier texte, signé par Yves Cochet, se lance dans une prospective radicale d’un ef..
Andrew Dobson: trajectories of green political theory. Interview by Luc Semal, Mathilde Szuba and Olivier Petit
No full textInternational audienceAndrew Dobson, né en avril 1957, est professeur de science politique à l’Université de Keele (Royaume-Uni). Il est reconnu comme l’une des figures principales du courant de la green political theory. Il est l’un des coéditeurs fondateurs de la revue Environmental Politics. Parmi ses principaux ouvrages, mentionnons Green Political Thought (Unwin Hyman, London, 1990, plusieurs rééditions chez Routledge depuis 1995), Justice and the Environment : conceptions of environmental sustainability and dimensions of social justice (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998), Citizenship and the Environment (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003). L’entretien réalisé en novembre 2012 permet de revenir sur son itinéraire et sur son positionnement particulier – au sein de la green political theory – vis-à-vis des approches traditionnelles en science politique pratiquées outre-Manche. La question de la place et du rôle des recherches interdisciplinaires dans le parcours d’Andrew Dobson est également abordée. Par ailleurs, compte tenu de l’investissement d’Andrew Dobson dans la sphère politique britannique (il est l’un des deux auteurs du manifeste du Green Party publié en 2010, et le sera à nouveau pour 2015), l’entretien revient sur les liens entre science et action, notamment au travers de l’idée de citoyenneté écologique. Cet entretien permet de (re)découvrir à travers Andrew Dobson tout un pan des recherches conduites dans le monde anglo-saxon sur l’environnement et la politique, qui font écho aux préoccupations et centres d’intérêt structurants de NSS et qui ouvrent des perspectives très stimulantes pour penser comme pour agir
The Image of the Criminal in the Prose of Sergiusz Piasecki
No full textTwenty years of personal experience in crime-related field that furthermore inspiredreflection on the reasons of crime made a Polish writer, Sergiusz Piasecki, interestingfor forensic sciences. His life started with a turbulent and difficult childhood, hematured among the turmoil of the Soviet Revolution and joined the guerrillas fightingBolsheviks, finally to graduate from the School of Infantry Cadets in Warsaw and beassigned to the Lithuanian-Belarusian Division in Vilnius. After the Bolshevik War,being a decommissioned soldier, Piasecki painfully experienced life in poverty. Thiswas when he began to earn his sustenance by smuggling. He later entered a few-yearlongcooperation with the 2nd Division of the High Command of the Polish Army andbecame an intelligence agent. In 1926, being unemployed again, he robbed a suburbantrain. In accordance with the law in force, the summary court sentenced him to death.However, the President of the Republic Ignacy Mościcki pardoned Pia secki, exchangingthe penalty to 15 years in prison. Piasecki served 11 years of his sentence in the prisonsof Lida, Nowogódek, Rawicz, Mokotów, Koronowo, and finally in the toughest prisonof the Second Republic – at Święty Krzyż (the Holy Cross) near Kielce. The 20 yearsfrom 1917 to 1937 were the period decisive for the writing realism and thoroughnessof descriptions of the criminal world and presented protagonists, as well as analysesof psychological and social circumstances that lead individuals to the path of crime.Beginning with Piasecki’s first published book Kochanek Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy (Lover of the Greater Bear, aka Lover of the Ursa Major) whose author enjoyed a quite uniquestatus of criminal prisoner, and which presented the facts of life of smugglers onthe Polish-Soviet fringe in 1922–1924, the precious study of the criminal world wascontinued in the trilogy Jabłuszko, Spojrzę ja w okno, and Nikt nie da nam zbawienia(Apple, Shall I Look into the Window, and No One is to Redeem us). In Żywot człowiekarozbrojonego (Life of the Human Disarmed), the protagonist moves through all the levelsof conflict with the law, and the reader follows the process of his reflections to becomefamiliar with the impact of the external world on the dramatic choices made.The work of Piasecki follows the current of prose keen on social environmentof the 1930s, based on authenticity and autobiographic experience, and whose cog -nitive values result among others from the personal involvement of the author, whocorroborates knowledge based on experience and direct contact. It is a specific typeof participatory observation: a method of researching criminal phenomena wherethe observer is part of the criminal world.The goal of the writer, which he actually frequently emphasised, was the eagernessto share the knowledge on criminals with the society, with the provision thatthe criminal world he portrayed was multidimensional rather than just a separate,specific social group, standing out from among the “normal” people. He also paidspecial attention to the life’s circumstances that can “make” anyone a criminal. It is alsocharacteristic of Piasecki to juxtapose criminals against people who are “mechanically”honest. In examining the writer’s views on crime, such a ploy demolishes the positivistdivision of the society into criminals and decent people. Honest by default, manya decent citizen proves to be a bad man. On the other hand, many derailed outcastsfrom the society are in fact good and truly honest. Some stories presented by Piaseckiare quite precise illustrations of theories in the crime sciences. In his descriptionsof the demimonde of the Minsk thieves, Piasecki described them in terms very closeto those presented by Edward Sutherland in The Professional Thief, a book writtenby a professional thief with Sutherland’s sociological commentary.The history of literature knows many writers whose works were based on the introspectionof their respective authors, and whose content allows delving into the socialreality of a given time and an insightful analysis of criminal personalities, as well as anattempt at defining the factors that influence criminal behaviours. Such a knowledgeof the human/the criminal is especially well articulated in realistic prose (Balzac,Zola, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Marquez, Remarque, Piasecki, Nachalnik, Wiskowski, Mironowicz).Certainly, the belles-lettres play a special role in this context, providinga source of knowledge, especially if by the virtue of the vicissitudes of his or her life andthoughts the author can convey information helpful in explaining and understanding the assessment of the phenomena investigated by criminal sciences
Centre for Alternative Technology Publications,Zero Carbon Britain 2030: a new energy strategy.The second report of the Zero Carbon Britain project. Llwyngwern, 2010, 368 p.
No full textLe Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), au Pays de Galles, vient pour la troisième fois de publier un programme de décarbonisation totale de la production d’énergie en Grande-Bretagne. A sa création en 1974, le CAT était une communauté de vie alternative visant l’autosuffisance énergétique dans un but d’exemplarité : « nous cherchons à encourager une plus grande autosuffisance nationale en montrant que l’on peut vivre avec moins de gaspillages » (CAT mimeo, 1976). Au fil des ans, le CAT s..
Aurélien Bernier, Le climat otage de la finance, ou comment le marché boursicote avec les « droits à polluer »
No full textFinance et protection de l’environnement font-ils bon ménage ? La question mérite d’être posée, quand on sait que les grandes mesures internationales de protection du climat reposent sur une régulation financière : protocole de Kyoto et marché européen du carbone fonctionnent s’appuient sur une « bourse du carbone », où le prix de la tonne de carbone se négocie et se fixe selon le rapport de l’offre et de la demande. Aurélien Bernier, ancien membre d’Attac, était déjà auteur de plusieurs ouvr..
Adolphe Nicolas, Énergies : une pénurie au secours du climat ?, Paris, Belin, 2011, 160 p.
No full textGéologue et professeur émérite à l’université de Montpellier, Adolphe Nicolas signe ici un court ouvrage, très facile d’accès, sur la pénurie des ressources énergétiques fossiles. On peut saluer ce travail de vulgarisation qui, en dépit de sa modestie, contribue activement à rendre possible un débordement des frontières disciplinaires, en traduisant les données de la controverse sur le pic pétrolier dans un langage très accessible, avec juste ce qu’il faut de graphiques et de chiffres. C’est ..
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Parution : La consommation (tout) contre la société ?
No full textLe numéro 20 de la revue Sociologies Pratiques, intitulé "La consommation (tout) contre la société ?", vient de paraître. Le dossier thématique du numéro a été coordonné par Isabelle Garabuau-Moussaoui... ... et comporte des articles de Emmanuelle Lallement, Jean-Paul Bozonnet, Mathilde Szuba & Luc Semal, Caroline de Montety, Frédéric de Coninck, Gérald Gaglio et Sophie Chevalier. De plus, un entretien avec Dominique Desjeux et un avec Daniel Foundoulis ont été réalisés. Le numéro comporte ég..
Who does make the domestic space?
No full textIn the last year, pandemics’ spreading has forced people to rethink their relationship with their homes due to both the lockdowns and a general feeling of uncertainty. Our home walls are the ultimate border against a possibly unsafe environment, but in the meantime, we need to overcome them to work, go to school, and stay in society. The domestic space has always been a core topic of housing design, but we have to re-think it and do it necessary to understand which players “make” it. The concept of domestic space blends architectural design with the field of interior design. Apart from the ordinary meaning related to the family or household, the word “domestic” is rooted in the Latin word Domus and means something that belongs to the home. The point is that the domestic concept of space is liminal between the house’s typological features and the psychological ones, or more precisely, it matters what turns the first into the second. Several issues make the place where we live home, and most of them concern what makes the domestic space. It is a matter of limits. Space changes a lot whether walls bound it or not. In the modern and contemporary history of domestic architecture, there is constant effort to get over the walls’ limits, questioning the concept of the room. Likely, domestic space’s idea lies on balance between the search for freedom and the need for shelter. Even thanks to the gaze that overlooks a landscape, the first can support our spirit, especially when phenomena like the pandemic make us stay home for a long time. Apart from giving us protection against weather, the second sets our move-ment’s range and sets the scale between the corporeality and the world. Ac-cording to the typological method, the paper analyzes some examples that can be considered representative of a way to handle the relationship be-tween limits and free space. Among a large number of examples, the ones that belong to Barcelona and Milan Modernism have been chosen. The author has been working on this topic since 2014 and this paper is part of wider research about the relationships that focus on domestic space.
In conclusion, architecture “makes” space setting the limits giving them a shape and handling how they can be crossed. It becomes “domestic” when an interaction is triggered between the designer and the users.
Space is never given only by the project but by a relationship between body, mind and construction. The project does not end with the construction of the house but continues over time with a process of appropriation of the space similar to the evolution of a language that remains alive and can change when it is spoken, practised and traveled as a language
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