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Generic reference: the exceptional status of human nouns par Ismaël Zaïdi, publié le 25/09/2023

This article examines the particular status of generic references (statements that assign a characteristic to a class or subclass) that concern human subjects. While such statements are often described as interchangeable, our study shows that each form of generic reference has social implications when human subjects are under study. Between non-acceptability, the expression of stereotypes and a need for context which is usually absent in studies, human nouns highlight more than ever the relationship between grammar and semantics within generic references.

The tumultuous history of the right to vote in the U.S. par Marion Douzou, publié le 23/09/2021

This presentation aims at giving an overview of the history of the right to vote in the United States, from the Founding Fathers to voter suppression in the twenty-first century.

Mobility and Immobility in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn: Migration as a Static Initiatory Journey par Coline Pavia, publié le 01/07/2020

Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn centres on Eilis Lacey’s migration from Ireland to Brooklyn. The protagonist’s spatial mobility is accompanied by an identity change, as her self evolves when she settles in New York. Although she embarks on an initiatory journey through migration, Eilis faces various forms of immobility: the American territory resembles Ireland, and she is confronted to family duty when she thought she would escape it. This article therefore shows that the protagonist’s migration in Brooklyn is paradoxically mainly static, in terms of both space and identity. However, Eilis’s mobility still fosters a form of inner transformation as she is faced with a division between her Irish and American homes and between two selves that are irreconcilable.

Donald Trump's First State of the Union Address par Marion Coste, publié le 31/01/2018

Cette transcription du discours prononcé par Donald Trump devant le Congrès des États-Unis le 30 janvier 2018 est issue du site officiel de la Maison Blanche. La division en parties, ajoutée par la Clé des langues, est destinée à faciliter la recherche d'extraits qui pourraient faire l'objet d'un travail en classe. Une sélection d'articles de presse est également proposée en fin de ressource.

Immigration to the United States of America: Current Challenges and Debates par Anne-Kathrin Marquardt, publié le 11/05/2017

This paper, written in April 2017, gives an overview of recent immigration to the United States and the immigrant population of America. It outlines the consequences for the demographics and politics of the country and summarises the contentious issues in the debate around immigration reform. It focuses on executive action taken since 2012, during the Obama and Trump presidencies, right up to the present day.

Questions d'actualité : US Election Day (08/11/2016) par Marion Coste, publié le 08/11/2016

Vous trouverez sur cette page des liens vers les directs mis en place par les grands quotidiens anglophones, un état des lieux des campagnes des candidats au jour J, ainsi que des articles sur le rôle des "swing states" et sur la violence qui a marqué ces élections présidentielles.

Identity (Dana Spiotta) par Dana Spiotta, publié le 26/08/2015

I read obituaries. I love to read about people who were notable for one thing—say the woman who appears in a famous photo at Kent State. I am drawn to what people think of as failures: the guy who backed the wrong videotape format or the guy who lost an election after a tweet. I like to read about people whose lives took dramatic turns, like the guy who spent most of his life running an ice cream shop in New Jersey but secretly had a past life as a war criminal. I am fascinated by secret lives or multiplex identities. I imagine the day-to-day ordinary life, what does it feel like over time. I wonder about consequences, guilt, and redemption. I wonder how your past shapes who you are. And I wonder about the life that takes shape around an event. How a fleeting moment can change you, or maybe not. Maybe you are you no matter what.

Are You Going to Write That in Your Book? par Siddhartha Deb, publié le 03/12/2013

Born in north-eastern India in 1970, Siddhartha Deb is the recipient of grants from the Society of Authors in the UK and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard University. His latest book, a work of narrative nonfiction, ((The Beautiful and the Damned)), was a finalist for the Orwell Prize in the UK and the winner of the PEN Open award in the United States. His journalism, essays, and reviews have appeared in Harpers, The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, Bookforum, The Daily Telegraph, The Nation, n+1, and The Times Literary Supplement.

Care: A New Way of Questioning our Societies par Joan Tronto, publié le 15/03/2013

"In the United States, care became a focus of feminist research in the early 1980s. As “second wave” feminists realized that mere formal equality was insufficient, they began to think more deeply about what was required for the genuine inclusion of women."

Neoliberalism, De-Democratization, Sacrifice par Wendy Brown, publié le 11/02/2013

Neoliberalism, of course, is not unified or constant but differs across its geographical instantiations and transmogrifies over time. In the Euro Atlantic world today, two different and quite contingent forces are giving neoliberalism a new shape: on the one hand, financialization is configuring states, firms, associations and subjects in terms of capital valuation or credit worthiness (as opposed to productivity, efficiency, cost-benefit or interest maximization), and on the other hand, austerity regimes are effecting enormous shrinkages in human well being through cuts in jobs, pay, benefits and services.

The Young Lords par Johanna Fernandez, Claire Richard, publié le 22/01/2013

The Young Lords were the children of the first large wave of Puerto Rican migration to the North East of the United States, in cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Hartford. The Young Lords was begun not in New York, interestingly enough, but in Chicago. And it was initiated by the efforts of the leader of the Young Lords, who initially in Chicago had been a gang. Cha Cha Jimenez, who was the leader of that gang, worked with a leader of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, to transform this gang into a political organization.

Some thoughts on silence and the contemporary “investigative memoir” par Marco Roth, publié le 06/12/2012

Critics and readers, at least in the United States, seem to be slower to recognize the investigative memoir as a narrative mode deserving of attention as such. The American memoir comes burdened with a history of survivor’s tales and evangelical Protestant redemption stories: the writer is usually delivered from bondage: slavery or captivity in the 19th century, Communism, Nazi Europe, or “substance abuse” in the 20th, and into freedom or the light of truth. THE END. Testifying, in both legal and religious senses, is important. Important too is the sense that the author can be written into a social order, given a normal or productive life...

Frederick Wiseman on Reality and film par Frederick Wiseman, publié le 03/09/2012

The provocative starting point sent to me for this debate states that "Artists and writers are vampires who feed on reality." I do not think this is any more true of artists and writers than it is of anybody whether they be doctor, lawyer, used car salesman, fishmonger, politician, farmer, priest, housewife or any of the other hundreds of thousands of jobs that exist.

The End of Forgetting - Jeffrey Rosen par Jeffrey Rosen, publié le 22/09/2011

Jeffrey Rosen a écrit ce texte dans le cadre de la rencontre intitulée "The end of privacy: the state and surveillance", organisée par le festival "Walls and Bridges" de la Villa Gillet. Cette rencontre propose de réfléchir au degré de surveillance auquel les États occidentaux astreignent leurs citoyens a considérablement augmenté au cours des dernières années, que ce soit dans les espaces publics ou sur internet.

The State and Surveillance: Fear and Control par Didier Bigo, Mireille Delmas-Marty, publié le 20/09/2011

The prevention discourse, which has existed for so long has gone a step further with the belief of scientific capability to predict human behaviour by sophisticated software. It is not enough to assess possible futures, to do simulation and alternative scenarios and to guess what virtual future has the most chance to become actualised, now the professionals of security technologies want to reduce all these possible futures to only one future; often the future of the worst case scenario. And it is this selected future that they read as a future perfect, as a future already fixed, a future they already know...

Héritage de la Nouvelle Gauche Américaine des années soixante par Frédéric Robert, publié le 03/01/2011

La Nouvelle Gauche américaine occupa le devant de la scène politique américaine entre 1960 et 1970. D'abord adepte de la réforme stricto sensu, entre 1960 et 1965, elle dut se résoudre à s'engager dans la révolution (1965-1970), ce qui précipita sa désintégration. Malgré un passage relativement court dans le paysage politique américain, il est frappant de constater qu'elle a contribué, peu ou prou, à transformer la société américaine et qu'elle a servi d'inspiration, voire de modèle à d'autres mouvements contestataires, aussi bien américains qu'européens.

La Grande Séparation entre le politique et le religieux par Dominique Schnapper, publié le 12/11/2010

Le 12 octobre 2010, la Villa Gillet organisait à l'Institution des Chartreux une rencontre autour de la perception des religions dans notre société. Réunissant des spécialistes français et américains des questions religieuses, cet évènement était l'occasion de faire le point sur ces "nouvelles conflictualités" qui sont souvent la conséquence de préjugés et de pratiques culturelles spécifiques à chaque nation. Ce texte a été écrit par Dominique Schnapper, Docteur honoris causa de l'université McGill de Montréal.

Lord Peter Melchett on GMOs par Lord Peter Melchett, publié le 12/11/2010

Lord Peter Melchett was a whip in James Callaghan's Labour Party and later became minister of state for Northern Ireland. He was appointed Executive Director of Greenpeace UK in 1989 and he has been Policy Director at the Soil Association since 2002. He was invited by Libération to tackle the issue of GMOs.

Religion and Society: The New Conflicts par Mark Lilla, publié le 08/11/2010

Le 12 octobre 2010, la Villa Gillet organisait à l'Institution des Chartreux une rencontre autour de la perception des religions dans notre société. Réunissant des spécialistes français et américains des questions religieuses, cet évènement était l'occasion de faire le point sur ces "nouvelles conflictualités" qui sont souvent la conséquence de préjugés et de pratiques culturelles spécifiques à chaque nation. Ce texte a été écrit par Mark Lilla, philosophe et professeur à l'Université de Columbia.

Le « Port Huron Statement » du Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) : entre idéalisme démocratique et programme politique novateur par Frédéric Robert, publié le 04/10/2010

Le Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), mouvement-phare des étudiants appartenant à la Nouvelle Gauche contestataire des années soixante, était le successeur de l'Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS), organisation d'étudiants fondée en 1905 par Upton Sinclair, Clarence Darrow et Jack London...

Le néolibéralisme et l’opinion britannique : Un héritage en demi-teinte ? par Gilles Christoph, publié le 26/04/2010

Afin de contribuer à l'entreprise d'évaluation de l'héritage thatchérien qui était l'objet du colloque organisé à Lyon en décembre 2009, cet article se propose d'étudier l'influence des idées néolibérales sur l'opinion britannique. Il apparaît que le passage du consensus keynésien au consensus néolibéral, symbolisé par l'élection de Margaret Thatcher en 1979, doit beaucoup à l'action d'un petit groupe d'économistes qui, au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, se sont donné pour ambition de transformer les mentalités dans un sens plus conforme aux principes du libéralisme économique. Si le succès de la stratégie néolibérale est indéniable auprès des élites, on remarque cependant que la conversion du grand public reste partielle, notamment en ce qui concerne la privatisation des services publics.

Le couple Obama incarnation de l'American Dream ? par Pierre-Marie Loizeau , publié le 29/03/2010

En novembre 2008, Barack Obama a fait un triomphe auprès des minorités et plus particulièrement auprès de la communauté noire. Mais il n'est pas le seul Obama. Son épouse Michelle bénéficie aussi d'une grande popularité, auprès des femmes et chez les Afro-Américains auxquels elle s'identifie pleinement. Figure icônique, elle est modèle et miroir. Mais au-delà des qualités individuelles propres de ces deux personnages hors du commun, c'est bien le couple présidentiel qui fait vibrer l'Amérique. Cette union, par ses différences et ses complémentarités, son exemplarité et l'image du bonheur qu'il inspire, incarne bel et bien le rêve américain.

Reducing social democracy’s last redoubt: the privatisation and marketisation of the NHS in England par Colin Leys, publié le 12/02/2010

Since 1980 the NHS has been converted from a planned, integrated service, to a set of quasi-businesses operating in a health care market, in which an increasingly significant role is being played by for-profit corporations. This policy was initiated by the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher and John Major but continued and driven much further by the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The paper outlines the sequence of initiatives through which the transformation has been accomplished and assesses what has driven the change, and why it has been so relatively easy to accomplish.

Financialisation and the Thatcher Governments par John Grahl, publié le 12/02/2010

This paper suggests that the role of the Thatcher governments in changing the course of economic and political development may have been exaggerated, and indeed that the role of political factors in general and "neo-liberalism" in particular is often overstated. An implication is that some current problems, interpreted as primarily political, have an economic dimension which is not fully taken into account. An example is the process of "financialisation"; this is frequently analysed in political terms although there are deep economic forces behind it.

All the World’s a Folly : Theatricality and Intertextuality in Paul Auster’s The Brooklyn Follies par Brigitte Friant-Kessler, publié le 11/12/2009

There is a manner in which Auster's revisiting classic sources is not merely a simple lift or a citation from the work when he playfully offers a postmodern context to old texts, especially with major literary figures in the wings. As J. Dupont argues in his introductory note to The Brooklyn Follies : "It would however be an exhaustingly vain task to try and undertake a census of the literary intertexts that run beneath the surface of Auster's work". Such an attempt is all the more so destined to be a failure as there are, beside the clearly stated references, less obvious, possibly unavowed though not any the less significant, undercurrents of intertextuality to be traced in Auster's Brooklyn Follies. Were there only one idiosyncratic trait to be highlighted in Auster's style, it would obviously be his taste for patch-working...

La guerre de Sécession ou "les Etats désunis" par Marie Beauchamp, publié le 24/04/2007

Paradoxalement, la guerre de Sécession (1861-1865) fut un événement fondateur pour les États-Unis, qui, après avoir frôlé l'implosion, en sont ressortis avec un État et une nation plus solides, unis autour d'un gouvernement fédéral.