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The Great Transition
Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.
La Fabrique de la thèse
S’il est difficile d’affirmer avec précision ce qu’est « la thèse » en sciences sociales, cet ouvrage fait le choix de la prendre comme une expérience, celle d’un apprentissage. Ce guide peu conventionnel se propose non seulement d’accompagner les jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses dans leur parcours, mais également d’engager une réflexion collective sur les enseignements que l’on peut tirer de cette expérience, au sein de l’université et bien au-delà. Il s’emploie à mettre à la disposition des doctorants et doctorantes les connaissances indispensables (généralement dispersées et informelles) pour naviguer l’exercice de la thèse et progresser dans le monde d...
Brokerage and Production in the American and French Entertainment Industries
Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets shines unprecedented light on the activity of talent representatives and production professionals in the American and French film and television industries. Agents and other talent brokers, studio executives, independent producers, casting directors, and film offices—all operate and interact behind the scenes in ways that are consequential to the making of artistic careers and cultural products. But even as these professionals play a crucial role in the entertainment industry, their activity is usually invisible and relatively unknown. This collection of empirically grounded contributions by established and up-and-coming American and French scholars reve...
A Mist Connection
In the summer of 1783, an unusual dry fog descended upon large parts of the northern hemisphere. The fog brought with it bloodred sunsets, a foul sulfuric odor, and a host of other peculiar weather events. Inspired by the Enlightenment, many naturalists attempted to find reasonable explanations for these occurrences. Between 8 June 1783 and 7 February 1784, a 27-kilometer-long fissure volcano erupted in the Icelandic highlands. It produced the largest volume of lava released by any volcanic eruption on planet Earth in the last millennium. In Iceland, the eruption led to the death of one-fifth of the population. The jetstream carried its volcanic gases further afield to Europe and beyond, whe...
Into the woods
This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland. For four years, the author joined these scientists in their sampling expeditions into the Caledonian forests, observed their efforts in the laboratory to produce data from wood samples and followed their discussions of a graph showing the evolution of the Scottish temperature over the past millennium in conferences, workshops and peer-review journals. This epistemography of climate change is of broad social and academic relevance – both for its contextualised treatment of a key contemporary science, and for its original formulation of a methodology for investigating expertise.
Analyser la radio
« Cet ouvrage, rédigé par une équipe internationale de chercheurs spécialisés, aborde toutes les questions que se posent celles et ceux qui souhaitent entreprendre un travail sur la radio. Par où commencer? Quelles démarches engager? Quelle question de recherche et quelles hypothèses poser? À quel cadre disciplinaire se référer? Quelle méthodologie et quelles méthodes utiliser? Comment constituer son corpus? Où et à qui s?adresser? De quels exemples s'inspirer? 'Analyser la radio' apporte des réponses concrètes à toutes ces questions et pour tous les secteurs de la recherche radiophonique ... Envisageant la radio de manière interdisciplinaire, ce livre met aussi l'accent sur les nouvelles voies et les méthodes de recherche originales sur la radio, à un moment où ce média vit une véritable métamorphose. »--
Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean
As important as state-to-state and multi-state cooperation have long proven to be, many countries in the Global South have yet to fully explore its potentials. Despite their shared history of slavery, colonialism, and underdevelopment, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean currently show a lack of significant cooperation. Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean: The Case for Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation, therefore, makes the case for an increased and renewed effort at bilateral and multilateral cooperation between the three regions. In this multidisciplinary work, scholars make the case for renewing, continuing, and deepening relationships between the people, the state, and the non-governmental organizations in the three spheres—taking not only an economic and political point of view, but also considering sociological, geographical, and historical perspectives as well.
