Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones. The Limits of Transnationalism reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the...

Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced...

Museen, Kunst, Luxusgüter, Immobilien, Tourismus – für Luc Boltanski und Arnaud Esquerre sind dies zentrale Felder einer neuen Ökonomie, eines neuen Kapitalismus. Dieser prägt zunehmend unsere Gesellschaften und dient vor allem der Bereicherung der...

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United...

India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically poor in the world today, it is home to a sizeable number of thriving rich and flourishing middle classes...

¿Reinará Leonor I? Algunos se preguntan si Felipe VI será el último rey de España. Hacer conjeturas es arriesgado; en cambio, interrogarse sobre las aportaciones de la Corona en la actualidad resulta necesario. En pleno siglo xxila monarquía...

Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the...

Sabemos que la regla de mayoría es la regla de decisión más igualitaria y eficaz. Sin embargo, desconocemos las razones por las que un número mayor de votos pueden producir la obligación de respetar una decisión.¿Qué razones justifican el uso de la...

The present volume provides an overview of new forms of popular memory, in particular critical memory, of the Mao era. Focusing on the processes of private production, public dissemination, and social sanctioning of narratives of the past in...

Publication of « Sketch, Schema, and Aesthetics », edited by Yolaine Escande and Johanna Liu, a special issue of journal Universitas : monthly Review on Philosophy and Culture,  n° 534, November 2018 (in English and Chinese). With articles from...

Publication of « Sketch, Schema, and Aesthetics », edited by Yolaine Escande and Johanna Liu, a special issue of journal Universitas : monthly Review on Philosophy and Culture,  n° 534, November 2018 (in English and Chinese). With articles from...

The articles forming the present volume aim to contribute to the rich and evolving historiography on the multiplicity of the actors and the institutions of Ottoman legal system. As the title of the volume suggests, “forms” and “institutions” of...