Revue
Perspectives on the fragility of the world
One year after the start of the pandemic, what better approach than anthropology to tell the story of the fragility of the world, of human beings and of their society? Because anthropology is more than ever the writing of the common, tells Nastassja Martin at the opening of the new issue of the Review of crier, by its concern for language, attention to speech and the diversity of beings. In the quarterly of surveys on ideas and culture, it is also a question of poetry with the theorist of literature Yves Citton, of Beijing’s stranglehold on Chinese culture, of “Thinking about Brazil with Bruno Latour”, of the political abandonment of cartoonists even though the comic book sector is doing well or to question ecofeminism in the face of its commodification and political recovery. In short, there’s something for everyone. Even fans of David Graeber will find their account there through a posthumous and caustic text on the tie. The fans of Alain Badiou are also spoiled with an article signed by the philosopher Ivan Segré. Tempting, right?
Review of the town crier, number 18, La Découverte-Médiapart, 160 pp., € 15.
Revue
At the roots of sexual violence
From ancient Rome to the very recent Swedish law on explicit consent, from the pedophile of clerics in 16th century Italy to marital rape in 17th century France: the latest issue of the journal Clio. Women, Gender, History is devoted to sexual violence. Even though historical research on rape dates back to the 1980s, the way in which historians today seize new objects of study is largely due to the “Renewed gaze” that we are now focusing on this violence: “The rise of the field of study [autour des violences faites aux enfants] is therefore contemporary with the major criminal cases that have followed one another since the 1990s ”, explain Sylvie Steinberg, Didier Lett, Fabrice Virgili and Camille Nous, who coordinate the file. Of even “the recent constitution of research groups on incest and harassment obeys the same desire to delve into history weighed down by contemporary questions but also the ambition to shed light on the present through the past”.
Clio. Women, Gender, History, issue 52 (2020) “Abuse. Force. Violate ”, responsible for the number Didier Lett, Sylvie Steinberg and Fabrice Virgili.
Anthology
All the ecology of the world
It is a traveling companion that every human concerned with ecological questions should have in his pocket. New and stimulating Wildproject editions project, Thoughts of ecology offer in 304 pages (including beautiful illustrations) to become familiar with the “Ecological humanities” through big questions like: “What is it to know the living?” ; “How to live well on Earth?” ; “From which principles to remake worlds?”. “This manual is driven by the conviction that ecology constitutes a recomposition of our knowledge and our practices so vast […] what could have been […] the Renaissance or the Enlightenment ”, write Baptiste Lanaspeze and Martin Schaffner, authors of this anthology which summons Thoreau or Darwin, but also Vinciane Despret, Rachel Carson and Baptiste Morizot.
The Thoughts of Ecology. A pocket manual, Wildproject, 304 pp., 12 €.
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