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"This article explores the strategies of migrant workers from post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) within the process of transnational exchange characterized by transnational labour market intermediaries that have substantially altered the former national bilateral employment relations. Utilizing a Bourdieuian conceptual framework it examines Slovenian and Polish workers' migration strategies and struggles to acquire and convert capitals within the process of transnational exchange and upon arrival in the UK. The article uncovers the (self-)colonial cultural capital embodied in CEE workers' habitus that drives their strategies to take up various working and training opportunities in the UK in order to acquire (trans)nationally recognized cultural capital. This labour of acquisition drives Polish and Slovenian workers to seek specific cross-cultural and ethnic-niche intermediary services that can manipulate the most reliable symbolic signs in order to make profits from migrant worker-consumers. In this regard the article also exposes inter- and intra-ethnic variations."

"Texte fondateur du droit colonial français, le Code Noir a suscité beaucoup de confusions et d'erreurs, à commencer par son nom lui-même... Code Noir ou Edit de mars 1685 ? Ecrit par Colbert ? Dont il existerait plusieurs versions ? Qui aurait réduit les esclaves à l'état de chose ? Présentant les acquis des recherches historiques récentes, cet ouvrage corrige un certain nombre d'idées reçues sur le Code Noir dont on n'a d'ailleurs pas retrouvé à ce jour l'original aux Archives nationales."

"En février 1900, la colonie de la Martinique a connu sa première grève générale, exploitée à Paris par la gauche comme par la droite dans leur lutte pour le contrôle de la Chambre des députés. Les socialistes y ont cherché des arguments dans leurs débats internes face au gouvernement de défense républicaine ; les modérés et réformistes se sont appuyés sur elle pour mettre en évidence les fautes administratives commises en métropole ; et la droite a saisi l'occasion de remettre en question le programme de République sociale et discréditer le gouvernement Waldeck-Rousseau. Il s'en est fallu de peu que ces troubles civils, générés par une économie sucrière déclinante sur l'île lointaine de Martinique, ne parviennent à provoquer la chute du gouvernement, sur fond de débats très vifs au sujet des conflits de travail. Comme le montre cet article, l'ancienne colonie de la Martinique et ses préoccupations sociales ont aussi participé et aidé à façonner une France fin-de-siècle en proie aux querelles parlementaires et confrontée à une demande croissante d'égalité sociale."

"Wassyla Tamzali, féministe algérienne, interpelle les intellectuels occidentaux qui se sont battus pour l'universalité des droits de la personne humaine, et se montrent aujourd'hui incapables de penser cette universalité au-delà de l'Europe. Eux qui ont défendu les principes démocratiques fondamentaux dans leurs pays, eux qui ont milité pour la décolonisation, auraient-ils oublié leurs combats ?
Ce livre met en lumière le renoncement de la pensée européenne devant la montée en puissance des groupes communautaires. En prenant pour indices la condition des femmes, la liberté de conscience ou la diversité culturelle, l'auteur passe au crible les idées de tolérance, de « laïcité ouverte », d'« Islam modéré », de « droit à la culture », et leurs conséquences politiques dans les pays arabes et musulmans."

" Les pays qui ont rompu avec le colonialisme ou le communisme inventent de formes nouvelles de capitalisme : prébendier, d'État socialiste, libéral, post-colonial et, plus rarement, de marché. Malgré l'absence d'institutions et de sources de développement endogènes, ils tirent leur force de l'ouverture de leur marché aux investissements étrangers – ouverture conditionnée par des négociations avec les ensembles régionaux que sont l'UE et l'Asean.



Comparant plusieurs trajectoires nationales en Europe de l'Est et en Asie du Sud-Est à différentes périodes de l'histoire, cet ouvrage examine les interactions entre le marché, la bureaucratie et les formes de domination politique. Il montre comment se construisent les marchés économiques sous l'effet de la violence exercée par les coalitions politiques, souvent en relation avec des partenaires étrangers."

"Les quatre parties du monde. Dominer " les quatre parties du monde " : telle était l'ambition de 1a Monarchie catholique (1580-1640). Pour imposer leur présence, Espagnols et Portugais apprennent à maîtriser des milieux inconnus, tandis que du Mexique au Japon, du Brésil aux côtes africaines, de Goa aux Philippines, des peuples sont confrontés à des formes de pensée et de pouvoir qui leur sont totalement étrangers. Brassage des êtres ou résistance des traditions locales à la domination ibérique : la terre se mondialise. A l'aube des Temps modernes, ce ne sont pas seulement les modes de vie, les techniques et l'économie que bouleversent les nouveaux maîtres de la planète, mais aussi les croyances et les imaginaires. En nous conviant à un vaste tour du monde, Serge Gruzinski montre comment le passé permet de comprendre ce qui se joue depuis des siècles entre occidentalisation, métissages et mondialisation. "

"In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger and indigo craved by Europeans. By 1848 the major systems of colonial slavery had been swept away either by independence movements, slave revolts, abolitionists or some combination of all three. How did this happen?



Robin Blackburn's history captures the complexity of a revolutionary age in a compelling narrative. In some cases colonial rule fell while slavery flourished, as happened in the South of the United States and in Brazil; elsewhere slavery ended but colonial rule remained, as in the British West Indies and French Windwards. But in French St. Domingue, the future Haiti, and in Spanish South and Central America both colonialism and slavery were defeated. This story of slave liberation and American independence highlights the pivotal role of the "first emancipation" in the French Antilles in the 1790s, the parallel actions of slave resistance and metropolitan abolitionism, and the contradictory implications of slaveholder patriotism.



The dramatic events of this epoch are examined from an unexpected vantage point, showing how the torch of anti-slavery passed from the medieval communes to dissident Quakers, from African maroons to radical pirates, from Granville Sharp and Ottabah Cuguano to Toussaint L'Ouverture, from the black Jacobins to the Liberators of South America, and from the African Baptists in Jamaica to the Revolutionaries of 1848 in Europe and the Caribbean."

"A companion volume to "The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery", this book traces European doctrines of race and slavery, from medieval times to the early-modern epoch. At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution widely regarded as oppressive, why did they sponsor the construction of racial slavery in their new colonies. The book finds in the emergent West both a stigmatization of the ethno-religious "other" and a new culture of consumption, freed from earlier moral restrictions. Robin Blackburn argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state fed greedily off this commerce whilst unsuccessfully seeking to regulate slavery. Successive chapters consider the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, premissed on the killing toil of the plantations, made a decisive contributions to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West."

"This book furnishes a panoramic view of slavery and emancipation in the Americas from the conquests and colonization of the sixteenth century to the ‘century of abolition' that stretched from 1780 to 1888. Tracing the diverse responses of African captives, The American Crucible argues that while slave rebels and abolitionists made real gains, they also suffered cruel setbacks and disappointments, leading to a momentous radicalization of the discourse of human rights.



In it, Robin Blackburn explains the emergence of ferocious systems of racial exploitation while rejecting the comforting myths that portray emancipation as somehow already inscribed in the institutions and ideas that allowed for, or even fostered, racial slavery in the first place, whether the logic of the market, the teachings of religion, or the spirit of nationalism. Rather, Blackburn stresses, American slavery was novel – and so too were the originality and achievement of the anti-slavery alliances which eventually destroyed it.



The Americas became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization, silver mining, plantation agriculture, racial enslavement and emancipation. The exotic commodities produced by the slave plantations helped to transform Europe and North America, raising up empires and stimulating industrial revolution and ‘market revolution' to bring about the pervasive commodification of polite society, work and everyday life in parts of Europe and North America. Fees, salaries and wages fostered consuming habits so that capitalism, based on free wage labor in the metropolis, became intimately dependent on racial slavery in the New World.



But by the late eighteenth century the Atlantic boom had sown far and wide the seeds of subversion, provoking colonial rebellion, slave conspiracy and popular revolt, the aspirations of a new black peasantry and ‘picaresque proletariat', and the emergence of a revolutionary doctrine: the ‘rights of man'. The result was a radicalization of the principles of the Enlightenment, with the Haitian Revolution rescuing and reshaping the ideals memorably proclaimed by the American and French revolutions.



Blackburn charts the gradual emergence of an ability and willingness to see the human cost of the heedless consumerism and to challenge it. The anti-slavery idea, he argues, brought together diverse impulses—the ‘free air' doctrine maintained by the common people of Europe, the critique of the philosophes and the urgency of slave resistance and black witness. The anti-slavery idea made gains thanks to a succession of historic upheavals. But the remaining slave systems—in the US South, Cuba and Brazi—were in many ways as strong as ever. They were only overturned thanks to the momentous clashes unleashed by the American Civil War, Cuba's fight for independence and the terminal crisis of the Brazilian Empire."

"The A. examines the case of the highly controversial Jabiluka uranium mine that was recently given the green signal by the Australian government. The mine, to be constructed in the heart of the Kakadu National Park (home to the Mirrar people and a World Heritage site) has been the topic of public debate and controversy involving Aboriginal communities, political parties, the mining industry, and environmentalists. By examining the colonial and anticolonial discourses that inform the mining project (with a particular focus on the colonialist, capitalist discourse inherent in the construction of Australian nationhood and the management of Aboriginal identity), the A. argues that contemporary postcolonial theory can be problematic. It tends not to account for anticolonialist struggles or the struggles of the colonized to negotiate with and survive colonial conditions. He also examines the differential power dynamics among stakeholders in this process and concludes by discussing implications of this case for stakeholder theory and for critical management studies."