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      • Sociology: family & relationships
        September 2020

        A New Name for Love

        by Belinda Cannone

        How to describe and understand modern relationships? Belinda Cannone tracks the metamorphoses of love. From unions “for life” to love matches that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century, and to the twentieth-century revolutions that established desire as a requisite ingredient for a successful relationship. These revolutions have their downsides: love, if it evolves, can last a lifetime whereas desire is more fleeting. So why stay in a relationship when the fire has gone out of it? Renouncing “for life” is only possible if we acknowledge the nobility of desire. Viewed for too long as a sin, it is now valued, but not always for what it is. Other than in oppressive relationships, desire is a profoundly feminist question. It isn’t simply a physical need or a reproductive necessity, but a crucial experience that fully engages both mind and body. It is intimately bound up with love, and is its new name.

      • Social discrimination
        April 2019

        The Adama Combat

        by Assa Traoré and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie

        On July 19th, 2016, Adama Traoré died at Beaumont-sur-Oise, asphyxiated under the weight of three police officers. It was his 24th birthday. Since then, a combat has arisen and developed, deeply questioning politics and our own world: the Adama combat. «The Adama combat is not only the combat of the Traoré family. The death of my brother is representative of a great unrest in this France that is not doing well. My brother died under the weight of three officers and a system: he died because he was called Adama Traoré, because he was Black, because he lived in a working-class neighbourhood. The bad France, its problem with the police, colonialism, racism, the school system, the justice system, democracy: all of them are part of the Adama combat. » A. T. « The death of Adama Traoré is inscribed within a system that killed other young men before him and has killed others after him. The question of police brutality occupies a central place within it. But this subject is an entry point that allows us to access a more lucid understanding of the social world – of the School, of racism, of the public space, of the rule of Law and the justice system. Adama’s death is the result of a stifling and finger-pointing system. It is then a matter of using the fight that ensues to question the functioning of the institutions and the powers in our contemporary societies. » G. L.

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